Manjula translates the poem, SotPatro by Sukumar Roy into English. It is basically about a very nice groom someone has found for his daughter:
Academics next…… Oh! Par excellence!
No,no,not his degree,but perseverance!
Nineteen attempts at a stretch……..
Matriculation degree is yet to fetch!
Yep… Sukumar Roy is the father of Satyajit Roy. For those who want to see the [...]
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Old Gangajal in a new bottle
Published by May 3rd, 2008 in Art, Books, Culture, Fiction, India and Religion. 0 CommentsNayan has discovered the newer version of the Ramayana, set in 3392 A.D. and has his opinions:
I wonder what Swami Valmiki thought while writing down this legend. I pray to God to give his soul peace, I am quite sure he would have not been happy to see Rama and Dashratha talking in fundax English, [...]
Kiran at Desicritics writes about a fictional chat conversation between an Engineer-MBA in the US and a girl in India who have entered the arranged marriage arena:
He: Isn’t this chat a wee bit uncomfortable? It would have been better if we had met face to face.
She: Didn’t know what to say and didn’t want to [...]
What destiny a daughter fulfilled
Published by April 28th, 2008 in Development, Feminism, Fiction, Prejudice, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsDr. Motion pens a beautiful story that ends thus:
You are lucky that times have changed, your mother was not fortunate enough to follow her heart.
Don’t worry, I haven’t really given the ending away. Please read it.
Viswapriya observes the similarities and differences between two stories- a short story and a true story:
But could it be the same love? Or have we all finally reached this stage where instant gratifications have taken over every other parameter of our existence? Love- now, Justice-now, everything- now? Or is fiction, as always, an idealization of [...]
However, I still indulge in nostalgia and link to a post from IISC life, where someone is desperately trying to escape playing Holi. The post is a fiction too.
Shoefiend writes a typically evocative short piece of fiction about an old lady and the gifts she has received.
Well, I call it fiction, but it could very well be someone’s actual story!
“This isn’t something that guys should read”
Published by February 26th, 2008 in Books, Fiction, Humour and Personal. 0 CommentsSo Sudipta went ahead and did just that: read a Mills & Boon novel:
And all my enthusiasm about the book vanished within 20-30 pages of the book I had smuggled out. There was this caretaker guy of some god-forsaken house who went to cut wood in a nearby forest. And here was this daughter of [...]
Rajat Gupta pays his tribute to Sherlock Holmes:
That is the strength of observation and deduction. Holmes methodology as all the fans of the character will know were based on scientific analysis ,observation and deduction . Just by looking at the soil of the shoe of the person he could tell about the place from where [...]
Anil Jagalur writes a very interesting short story - a real-life incident of fifty years ago.
Sudipta pens a prizewinning story.
….she liked his black flowing robes and his graying beard. He had a deep booming voice and spoke funny things, and always amused the children with the clatter of his metal tongs that he carried in his backpack. Today, Anu had spotted him walking by the paddy field and had inquired [...]
A slightly absurd story by Kaushik Vishwanath, which I did not like a lot, but which held my interest. But who knows, you might like it.
Once upon a time, there lived a man.
This man knew everything.
….
He was eating breakfast with his fork and knife. As he ate, he thought, I know everything there is [...]
Katha has recently published a collection of short stories by Kamleshwar, translated into English by acclaimed translator Jai Rattan.
Restive and moving, Kamleshwar’s stories resist all attempts to divide. The title story “These are not Flowers of Henna, Salima,” - which had set the stage for the celebrated novel Kitne Pakistan – affirms that Pakistan exists [...]
Ujju writes a story about Amelia, the puppet-maker:
She could never let her puppets go; in fact she never took the strings off.
“It is the curse of the puppet master. Unlike other toy makers, we become attached to our creations the minute we attach those strings. We help, guide and care for them and so, it [...]
Sourav Das reviews Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner based on events in Afganistan after the Soviets “lent a helping hand” in 1978
The interesting part of the book however, is the references made to the Persian epic Shahnamah, and how it resonates with the story. The father-son relationship is described in the context of the [...]
He had trouble speaking without lapsing into Hindi words to fully express himself. Often, his American co-workers lost him mid sentence of what sounded surprisingly English-like. He was just above 5 feet tall, dangerously underweight, wore clothes that were bought for really cheap from roadside hawkers back home.
Heartcrossing’s potrayal of an Indian engineer in US
Anil [...]
Anitha writes a gripping story.
“Father! Father! Someone’s coming!”
Two ragged snot-nosed children, brown as the earth that baked them in its dust, came running into the little hut. The father, who was sitting on his haunches smoking a local weed, broke into a wheezing cough that racked his skeletal frame.
Anand pens a light, racy story, very rich in details, about a rendezvous.
It is late evening on a dry summer’s day. The sun has set and the light from the many buildings, billboards and the street lights illuminate most of the street, but still leave certain sections of the street, dark.
The lady, who sells assorted [...]
Murakami: Japanese Writer of Alienation
Published by February 17th, 2007 in Books, Fiction and Literature. 0 CommentsDhinoj provides an overview of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, considered by some to be the successor to the legendary writer Franz Kafka and who has broken away from the style of Japanese writers of the post- ‘proletarian literature movement ‘ like Yasunari Kawabata.
Atomised society gives rise to alienation. Ok, that’s a cliché. Capitalist evolution inevitably [...]
A story about growing old…Told with remarkable restraint by Gopal Sathe.
He had been very proud of his hands once. He’d had big strong hands, hands formed by years of hard work and struggle. He could make anything with his own two hands, he had always boasted, and it was actually not that much of a [...]
Rheaa Rao, an “annoying thirteen year old”, tries her hand at writing a piece of flash fiction for the Kala Ghoda festival.
His floppy ears cocked at the sight of the venomous monster. It made raucous ‘clink!’ noises and flashed its sharp, distorted teeth as it rode past him. A young lad with scruffy hair and [...]
A very short story (by Falstaff) but a very important point.
Asuph writes a short story about the trauma of a woman who was molested by her own brother.
I dropped the letter on the floor. What do you say to your own brother when he apologizes for molesting you? I mean, what do you say to anyone, forget your own brother? At least you’ve not grown [...]
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