Reading & Writing Lounge

Andromache—Unrequited Love
Its book review day again and this week I am in the mood for some nostalgia, especially for the classics. Sifting among my books, I came across Jean Racine’s Andromache in the English translation by R.C. Knight, and that’s what triggered the sentimentality. The smell of old books reminds one of old friends you [...]

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9/11 was a stupendous moment in world history, more specifically, American history, and reams have been written about it. In India, Gujrat was on the boil in 2002 with a train fire and the subsequent massacre of human beings across the state. Little ink has spilled over the blood that flowed down the nations’ conscience. [...]

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In a subtle scene at the beginning of the novel, Kiran Desai describes Sai’s tryst with her grandfather’s house and its surrounding environs thus: “… the smoke mingled with the mist that was gathering speed, sweeping in thicker and thicker, obscuring things in parts ….When she looked back, the house was gone; when she climbed [...]

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