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YOUR NEST ON YOUR WINGS 2008-10-03 12:50:00 I DO NOT CLAIM that I am not responsible for what has happened. I knew it would happen one day. I have not cooperated it openly, but I have not tried to stop it from happening. I do not say I was unhappy by marrying him. Nor I had any objection for my husband’s multiple identities: Mr. Raman Kumar Shasti, a bank clerk, a chain smoker, a vegetarian, or a man always in blue shirt and grey pants
CRITICAL STAGES IN A LAWYER'S LIFE 2008-10-02 01:58:00 FIRST STAGEIn those days I was a novice among the crowd of lawyers. My collegues, the men with hidden smile and greying hair, and the women with hidden smile and dyed hair, were yet a decipherable lot for me. And as they all remained wrapped in black outfits, I was unable to identify them as either friends or foes. My heart was sinking on thinking that I was to be opponents to all those ladies and
THE WOMAN WHO STOLE A LIFE 2008-09-25 02:50:00 EXCEPT TINA, ALL subjects in my life are dead. When I came into this city, my new home, Tina, my daughter was one and half years old. I am not so attractive that a man or a just-out-of-the college chap would look at me and try a whistle. No. That is not the case. Even if the young lads and elderly, too, hardly miss to rub their eyes on me, while I go for shopping or for a walk in garden.The
SLOW MAN -- By J. M. COETZEE 2008-09-12 10:30:00 The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. -- J. M. COETZEEThe winner of Nobel Prize in literature in the year 2003, J M Coetzee is a man of his own kind, an engineer with his own tools. His novels were wedded with real world, until he wrote ‘Disgrace’. By ‘Disgrace’ he became the first
DISGRACE -- BY J. M. COETZEE 2008-09-12 10:29:00 I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.--J. M. CoetzeeIf you have deep love for extra beautiful literature, and if you have enough room for reading a novel twice, at least, then J M Coetzee has lot of things to offer. The winner of Nobel Prize in literature in the year 2003, J M Coetzee is a man of his own class, an engineer with his own set of tools. His novels are thick with
A TALE OF TWO CITIES - By Charles Dickens 2008-09-12 10:24:00 What can be said about a book which provides us with the single finest opening line in English literature A TALE OF TWO CITIESAn Classic Novel By CharlesDickens
It is quite difficult to write about the novels written by Charles Dickens, as you have to be one among the thousands of people who have done the job earlier. But I am so fascinated by the charm and attraction I felt while reading ‘A
MY MOTHER'S REMARRIAGE 2008-08-19 10:02:00 HAD IT BEEN a normal day in office, I would have called my assistants in my cabin, in order of their height, their intellectual height. Then each one of them would get sharp-bordered printouts, with deadlines bolded on top left corner. Their day’s work. It was my formula by which I had made my official journey smooth. My life was not my planning. It was not like that I took a piece of paper, ske
NEST ON THE WINGS 2008-08-19 09:45:00 I DO NOT CLAIM that I am not responsible for what has happened. I knew it would happen one day. I have not cooperated it openly, but I have not tried to stop it from happening. I do not say I was unhappy by marrying him. Nor I had any objection for my husband’s multiple identities: Mr. Raman Kumar Shasti, a bank clerk, a chain smoker, a vegetarian, or a man always in blue shirt an
WHEN FICTION VISITS THE FACT 2008-10-21 03:05:00 I have tried to narrate and show in this short story that somethimes face a strange situation. We are unable to decided whether an incidence occuring before our eyes is FACT or a FICTION. Here by the word 'we' I do not mean only the writers and poets. If any one has encountered such an incidence in his or her life, please help me to know about it. ----Naval LangaTHE CITY WAS UNDER FIRE.From my thi
The transplant : The woman who paid her bill well 2008-10-18 00:30:00 Author : Naval LangaPEOPLE WERE UNABLE TO SWALLOW the idea. Nor my staffs working under me could decode the thing. It was not the case they were unconcerned about Madame’s health. They loved Madame, our boss, too much; they all were worried about her illness, too. Doctors had said that her kidneys were non-functioning; she lived on doses of regular dialysis. My assistant Kapila had vowed to go t Read more:transplant
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The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster 2008-10-16 22:35:00 You hardly need to be an E. M. Forster fan, as I am, to be delighted by reading his BBC Talks. But its a perfact book for those who really enjoy learning more about literature, more about E. M Forster. We know him as a notable English novelist, but these seventy annotated broadcasts present BBC contributor Forster not only as a literary critic but also as a political activist. You would see in
Real Or Vicarious : The Wings Are Never Cheaper 2008-10-15 00:09:00 Author : Naval Langa“YOU’RE YOUR brother’s enemy.” That’s the limit. ‘I am my brother’s enemy’. But accusation is flogged on me. And it is by none other than my husband. How can I be so? I had no reason to hate my brother. He had never slapped me when I was young; he never curtailed my pocket money when I was in school; nor he objected to my going to swimming pool, even if his numb Read more:Wings
Book Reviews: Ghostly girls 2008-10-12 22:56:00 The Virago Book of Ghost StoriesEdited by Richard DalbyVirago, £9.99Buy The Virago Book of Ghost Stories at the Guardian bookshopHaunted houses, haunted rectories, even a haunted saucepan provide the thrills of this collection of ghost stories by female writers. Arranged in chronological order, the stories extend from the Victorian mistresses of the form, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Read more:Book Reviews
The return of Roth's alter-ego 2008-10-12 22:53:00 Exit Ghostby Philip RothVintage, £7.99Buy Exit Ghost at the Guardian bookshopWe first met Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth alter-ego and would-be man of letters, in The Ghost Writer nearly 30 years ago. But like Banquo's ghost - whose departure provides the brilliantly pilfered title of Exit Ghost - he kept coming back, filling out the whole Zuckerman Bound trilogy and several other novels. Now unb
HOW THE RICH LIVE 2008-10-12 01:14:00 Patrick Ness discovers that a love of money is the root of all lonelinessLydia Millet's odd and compelling new novel begins with the love of money. Her protagonist, T, is a wealthy man, but not a bad one. He cares for his mother, he cares for his dog, but he holds the world, almost helplessly, at arm's length. Perhaps, Millet seems to be arguing, the love of money is in fact the root of all loneli
MY NAME IS RED: Novel by ORHAN PAMUK 2008-10-09 03:47:00 The story of the book 'MY NAME IS RED' revolved around the Turkey of sixteenth century. But the point Orhan Pamuk makes is the recent one. The gist of the story is that certain communities block the modernity in any field of life. Even the artists are prevented, even beheaded, for disobeying the so-called religious truth. In 'MY NAME IS RED' there are number of point of views, and the seve
FEAR : THE ENEMY OF LOVE 2008-10-06 02:55:00 courtesy web Author: Naval Langa THE CLOCK HAS no time to rest. But my time is frozen. Sun might have warmed earth outside the hospital-room; moon might have cooled people’s bodies
"Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance " _ Barack Obama 2008-11-13 12:56:00 Like most other Americans, I first heard of BarackObama
, the charismatic senator from Illinois, at the 2004 Democratic Convention. His famous “Red State, Blue State” speech, almost Kennedy-esque in tone made me sit up and take notice.By now of course, the story of presidential candidate Barack Obama
—that of a “skinny kid with a funny name” is a well-known one. Barack Obama is the son of Read more:Dreams
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THE CONVERSATION 2008-11-10 02:02:00 A child soldier leads Father Angelo to speak with the devil in the African bushWriter : Damon GalgutThe face outside was a boy’s face. Fifteen or sixteen, eyes downcast. He looked like one of the congregation, arriving for confession. But he was one of them. “Somebody wants to speak to you,” he said, whispering. Father Angelo hesitated. The boy was alone. This was more like an invitation t
The Tenderness of Wolves 2008-11-09 15:46:00 The last time I saw Laurent Jammet, he was in Scott's store with a dead wolf over his shoulder. I had gone to get needles, and he had come in for the bounty. Scott insisted on the whole carcass, having once been bamboozled by a Yankee who brought in a pair of ears one day and claimed his bounty, then some time later brought in the paws for another dollar, and finally the tail. It was winter and th Read more:Wolves
Nile Baby 2008-11-08 23:33:00 Nile Baby - Author Elleke BoehmerBoehmer was born in Durban, South Africa, to Dutch parents, but has since been settled in the UK, teaching in several of the universitiesBeginningI know this for sure. When Alice Brass Khan saw the baby flop out of the glass jar that day, she saw in its eyes, nose, and mouth the shape of her own face. There they were, she spotted them that very minute, her own hig
MY MOTHER'S PENCIL SKETCH 2008-11-07 12:39:00 AUTHOR : NAVAL LANGA THIS IS NOT HIS first attempt of running away from home. First time he did it when he was thirteen, studying in standard eight. He had run to the bridge, but failed to beat the cold that had sent tremors to his spines. He had again tried it in first year of college. This time it was for the reason of Sheena. Sanity recovered in two days.
The Savior 2008-11-07 02:57:00 I used to play for the wounded and dying. The Army sent me; it was supposed to help the war effort."Can you play Wiener Blut?"He shook his head."How about 'Es war ein Edelweiss, ein kleines Edelweiss'?" asked the one with the wooden leg.Before Gottfried Keller could answer, someone behind him shouted, " 'Das Horst Wessel Lied'!" Keller turned just in time to see a baldheaded soldier propelling hi
Detribalizing Kroma 2008-11-06 10:43:00 Chuma Nwokolo, Jr.Nwokolo, author and advocate, is writer of Diaries of a Dead African and publisher of . I was at dinner that evening at The Great, Ubesie, when the character called Jonszer arrived. My chief regret for taking this assignment is my new familiarity with souls like Jonszer. He was halfway across the restaurant, filthy, wild-eyed and pungent, when I saw him. Fortunately the headw
In America : A Novel 2008-11-06 03:59:00 Chapter Seven:It felt like, an escapade; like leaving home; like telling lies - and she would tell many lies. She was beginning again; she was rejoining her destiny, which conferred on her the rich sensation that she had never gone astray. Maryna arrived in the city in late June. Her skin had forgotten San Francisco's brisk maritime climate, she had let slip from her mind the noble bay and ocean Read more:America
BUSH GIRL 2008-11-04 00:35:00 Nana Ekua Brew-HammondBrew-Hammond is a journalist (Village Voice, Metro); poet (Growing Up Girl anthology); playwright (2001’s off-Broadway production, Ends Meet); screenwriter (2003 Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab Finalist); copywriter for clients including Nike and L’Oreal; and editor. A cum laude graduate of Vassar College, she attended secondary school in Ghana, and recently comp
John Updike's unholy trinity 2008-11-02 23:05:00 Witchcraft as a metaphor for female power, and for the traditionally female power of storytelling, is as old as storytelling itself. When this power is rendered positively, nature and home become woman’s demesne, a metaphor for the healing power of love and nurturing, and the importance of husbanding one’s resources. But the oldest fairy tales also have a resounding darkness, in which power ca
Two Paths for the Novel 2008-11-01 23:41:00 By Zadie SmithNetherlandby Joseph O’NeillPantheon, 256 pp., $23.95Remainderby Tom McCarthyVintage, 308 pp., $13.95 (paper)1.From two recent novels, a story emerges about the future for the Anglophone novel. Both are the result of long journeys. Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill, took seven years to write;Remainder, by Tom McCarthy, took seven years to find a mainstream publisher. The two novels Read more:Paths
The Damned Eleven 2008-10-29 14:27:00 by Jim MeiroseBuilder came in the battered door, sat down in his rickety wooden folding chair, and opened the black and grey covered book titled THE STARS. He turned the pages slowly and carefully as though they would fall out if turned too roughly. Words came up from the book into his eyes.—as a light bulb can be seen from all sides—How true, thought Builder. Shifting in his seat causing loud Read more:Eleven
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