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May 2005
Fiction - 'Alchemy of
Desire'
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Tarun Tejpal
"My
fundamentals of life are not a bigger car or a bigger house.
Love and desire are what shapes the world.
Read on ...
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Sir Vidiadhar
Surajprasad Naipaul, known for his acerbic comments and condemnations, is
all praise for 'Alchemy of Desire' - the debut novel of his protégé and
friend Tarun Tejpal.
The
first line of the Alchemy of Desire, "Love is not the glue between two
people, sex is," gives a fair clue to the reader about what to expect. But
after all the years of waiting for the right tone Tejpal did not want to
write what he calls a `safe book’. He believes the original mandate of
literature is to push boundaries and by writing about sex in a country
living in self-denial his book might have done just that. |
Cricket - Madhav Mantri
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"Madhav Mantri , a former Indian Test Cricketer and one
of the most important
officials of Indian Cricket, is now 83 years old. He visited Pakistan in
1955 with the Indian team. I was a mere schoolboy then. For fifty years we
have remained friends and continue to correspond with each other. Mantriji
is the maternal uncle of the famous Sunil Gavaskar. In fact Mantriji was a
major influence in Gavaskar's life that catapulated him to become a great
cricketer. There was an All India Record created by Mantriji on Lahore
Gymkhana Cricket Ground. The article goes as related to me by Mantriji"
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Madhav Mantri
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Films
- 'Kitte Mil Ve Mahi' - Punjabi dalits & Sufi traditions
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This film contends the
dominant perceptions of the economic and spiritual heritage of Punjab.
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'Kitte Mil Ve
Mahi' ('Where the Twain Shall Meet'), a recently released
documentary by Ajay Bhardwaj, a Delhi-based Punjabi film-maker,
highlights the fascinating, although little-known, phenomenon of
the association of large number of Punjabi Dalits with the
shrines and religious traditions of the Sufis.
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Travel
- Bhutan
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Bhutan is one of
those parallel worlds of fiction where everything is familiar,
but the details are all different. The pristine glory of hills
and an amazing variety of ecosystems all go to make a visit to
this Land of the Thunder Dragon a lifetime experience.
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Read on ... |
Other
articles
Yoga & Pranayam
'Lahore is Lahore'
'Nukta' - the new art publication
& more
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