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Is English Your Native Tongue?
As Reviewed By: John Drexel
Belonging, by Dick Davis. Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, 2002. 54 pages. cloth, $24.95; paper, $14.95.
Landscape with Chainsaw, by James Lasdun.… continue reading...
Month: April 2004
At Home in the Several Worlds
The Oxford India Ramanujan, edited by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004)
As Reviewed By: Preston Merchant
It was a singular moment in the history of Indian letters when A.… continue reading...
Reformulating Forms
A Close Reading of Two Contemporary Indian Poets
As Reviewed By: Ravi Shankar
The world’s largest secular democracy has been exporting its letters in English for a few literary generations, but in the wake of a few luminaries-Rabindranath Tagore or more recently, Arundhati Roy-many strident, lyrical voices have gone unrecognized (after all, this wave of Indian poets and novelists, for all the hype, is still but a ripple in publishing in terms of sheer numbers).… continue reading...
A Conversation with Jayanta Mahapatra
As Interviewed By: Rabindra Swain
& Preston Merchant
Jayanta Mahapatra was born in 1928 in Cuttack, in the Indian state of Orissa. Trained as a scientist, he taught college physics for thirty-six years.… continue reading...
Indispensable Books of Indian Poetry in English
an inadequate but serviceable list
As Compiled By: Preston Merchant[private]
Only the Soul Knows How to Sing: Selections from Kamala Das
Das stopped writing poetry recently after converting to Islam, though she had been called “the first Hindu woman to write honestly about sexual feelings and love.”… continue reading...
