The homosexual overtones seem contrived and dissonant, but provide a certain depth to the novel that would otherwise have been about cricket and unfulfilled aspirations.
There is nothing grand about this novel, and that is what it makes it all the more unsettling. Mahajan’s attention to details refocuses the readers' attention from an intellectualised understanding of devastation, to a felt experience of it.
Arudpragasam shows human perseverance and the depth of the mundane. Excreting, touching, eating, sleeping or the lack of it forms the backbone of the novel.
Sardesai says his book is a personal choice of 11 individuals who have shaped Indian cricket. But it fails as a chronicle of cricket and its practitioners.
Chimmi Tenduf-La has, yet again, managed to make the conventional seem anomalous.
“In Colombo, everyone knows everyone and no one can hide,” certainly stands...
Lynching the accused is not something ordinary Sikhs I know can make peace with. The prevailing sentiment remains that the offenders be punished according to the law.
The Ex-RBI governor talks about whether the Indian economy is growing fast enough, India's position on a global stage and his years working for the UPA and NDA.
With Modi govt granting a one-month extension to Gen Manoj Pande, others whose names were sent to the Cabinet Committee on Appointments are strong contenders now.
Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?
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