Remember what Krishna Reddy said......

matiascelis

In Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh's Kaarawaan, writers also grow on trees.....

I miss Rituparno Ghosh. I miss his films. I miss his Bangla prose. I miss his dialogues. I miss his interviews. I miss his sharp wit. I miss his aesthetics. I miss his presence. This is a still from Titli with stellar performances by Aparna Sen & Konkona Sensharma amongst others -

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Lisboa by André Chaíça

In the new Fiction Special of On Eating Sumana Roy & I are happy to publish shortstories by Uma Gowrishankar (Cooking Banana Flower Usuli and Vengaya Kuzhambu), Nileena Sunil (Parotta & Beef Fry) & Rahul Singh (The Tea was not Good Enough). Read here
oneating.in

Fallen Leaves

Aki Kaurismäki
2023

This book arrived a while ago. (Thanks a ton Kunal Ray for introducing me to Maryse Conde)

The 24 year old Amazon youth who brought this book riding on a bicycle has done his PG in history. Also knows Tally. His father is a retd Grade IV govt employee with a meagre pension ⏬

Mohamed Aziz, a 72-year-old bookseller, living in Rabat, Morocco, spends 6 to 8 hours a day reading books. Having read over 5000 books in French, Arabic, and English, he remains the oldest bookseller in Rabat, spending more than 43 years in the same location.

I dreamt that Bombay Jayashri
was back on stage singing a wonderful concert as always. Hope the wait is over soon. Sharing a short essay written for Scroll.in
about listening to the magic that is Bombay Jayashri -

scroll.in/article/958887…

Last evening in Pune....

Aaj...

#FahadhFaasil is peerless....there's none like him in Indian cinema today....go watch #Aavesham !

#Arts #Opportunity | Call for applications for #UN ESCO ’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity now open! IFCD is one of few #UN funds supporting the arts in developing economies. Deadline is June 14, 2024
unesco.org/creativity/sit…

Why didn't we read Maryse Conde? My piece The Hindu TheHinduBooks

#author #obituary
#world #literaryfiction

If you are in Pune Friday evening, this will be worth your time -

#odissi #Dance #pune

A wonderful tribute by Kunal Ray to Condé. It's sad that such a profound voice in Caribbean and African literature didn't receive the spotlight she deserved. Colonial literature boasts many celebrated figures, yet Condé's voice often remained on the sidelines or overlooked.

A brilliant, brilliant interview -- confident, audacious, fiercely independent-minded. And fun.

Everything he says here resonates with me, I'm going to share it with my students.

lithub.com/busting-genre-…

In this week's The Hindu On #Books #newsletter , we read about Madhumita Murgia’s 'Code Dependent', Yaris Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism, & more. We also discuss the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist and talk to Nikhil Alva about his new novel trib.al/RfKNNIt