โMy mother has not stopped talking about it.โ โ This is how Meena Kandasamy begins her soaring poem of a novel titled โWhen I Hit You Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wifeโ. At around 250 pages, the partially-autobiographical narrative is written in the first person and along with being a chronicle…
Salik In creating a world of shared love, a veil of ignorance and distance have often created imaginative realities that have separated us by creating fears and misinformation about one another. A kid in some corner of the world grows up believing that, whites are white because they ran away before God finished making them,…
New Delhi: Mirza Waheed speaks the way he writes: with care. Ask this Kashmiri novelist a question, he looks a tad flustered. He averts his eyes, fidgets with his fingers and weighs his words before he finally answers the query. I spend time writing my sentences, I donโt want to hurry. And I am not a…
NEW DELHI: She writes poetic prose, employs redolent metaphors and evokes utmost admiration for her novelistic virtues. Arundhati Roy is anything but a boring author. The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a โdisciplined writerโ whose heart lies in fiction as it is a โconnective tissueโ between…