http://www.boloji.com Boloji is the world's biggest Articles Database. en-us Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:01 GMT http://www.boloji.com/specials/rss.xml Indian Solutions ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14444 Lives of the downtrodden in the far flung regions of Telangana where backwardness and poverty are visible as stark reality have compelled litterateurs to present realistic portraits in their literary artifacts. Jigiri is the variant of Telugu spoken widely in Telangana is a short novel by Peddinti Ashok Kumar by now an important and renowned fiction writer. Translated into English and titled Friends Forever by P. Jayalakshmi the novel is a study of field reality in the penury stricken area. 19-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14444 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14443 Sumit Sarkar s Kaliyuga Chakri and Bhakti Ramakrishna and His Times based primarily on his Reading of Shri-M s Shri Ramakrishna Kathaamrta is an enjoyable and enlightening read and I recommend it to readers particularly to those who have already read Shri-M s Shri Ramakrishna Kathaamrta or Swami Nikhilaananda s English translation The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna and now particularly wants a hearty dose of supplementary refreshment and entertainment to see a real-life and contemporary demonstration of Shri Ramakrishna s caution against Shukno paanditya Dry Intellect in action 20-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14443 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14428 Sunil Sharma s latest collection of poems Golden Cacti is a total joy to read. It took me quite a while to finish this book of one hundred pages as I only read a handful of poems each day - I wanted to savour these exquisite morsels to the max. 16-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14428 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14418 Jaydeep Sarangi s recently published volume of poetry Silent Days will make a great addition to the libraries of all lovers of fine poetry. His poems have an ethereal and at times enigmatic quality which is difficult to nail down. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14418 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14414 Sunil Sharma the sensitive poet from the suburb of Mumbai produces remarkable poetry from the everyday realities experienced in an Indian megapolis in a unique way revealing a gentle empathy and sensibility for the contradictions of urban existence in a city where - like other Asian cities - poverty and wealth stare into each other s eyes. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14414 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14410 Prakash Karat s paper titled The Role of the English-Educated in Indian Politics has the following comment about Raja Rammohun Roy 22 May 1772- 27 September 1833 Raja Ram Mohan Roy known as the Father of Modern India for his enlightened attitude on matters of social reform defended the British indigo planters. My research shows Mr. Karat has falsified history. 14-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14410 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14401 Debasish Lahiri s first book of poems First Will and Testament is a testimony of the poet s astute mastery of the poetic self with a rich feast of themes and idioms. The poet takes us to a virtual image gallery and a whirlpool of human experiences from abstract to sensuous and historical to artistic loops. He digs out meaning out of dry and flat terrains of life s course. Lahiri is a bilingual academician who hails from a rich literary tradition a splendid member of a multilingual family. 11-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14401 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14398 . 10-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14398 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14394 Fragrant Anchors is an engaging record of Rudra Kinshuk s astute mastery of poetic commitment with a rich feast of variegated themes and linguistic intensity. It is a collection of thirty seven poems which invites the reader to sit and read thoroughly with out a break. 09-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14394 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14393 The creative genius of Rabindranath Tagore knew no bounds. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that never before in the history of our country has such a multi-faceted prodigy appeared whose creativity not only pervaded every branch of our literature but went beyond to influence other walks of life. He wrote poetry stories novels plays criticism and articles of great depth with equal felicity. Unfortunately very little of his vast repertoire is available to the non-Bengali readership. Chakraborty and Bhattacharya distinguished intellectuals of our time who have been advocating for a long time the importance of human values in management have rendered yeomen s service to the English readership by providing English translations of discourses and essays from Tagore s Shantiniketan. 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14393 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14391 Ten steps forward ten steps back forward again nowhere to run to the nails were not in the chair but in the his flesh. This sentence could be a statement summarizing Mridula Garg s novel Anitya. This novel is also subtitled Halfway to Nowhere. Originally written in Hindi in 1970s and translated into English in 2010 this is a powerful piece of writing which impresses the readers for its deliberation and discernment. The novel poignantly describes the pain and anguish in the human condition and reveals tears in the nature of things. It is not a mere political social or revolutionary novel. 08-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14391 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14375 The story line is not complex but surely the narration is. Devi is married to Kunhikuttan whom she calls as per tradition Kunhikuttettan. He belongs to the Kalarippadam family which has a sense of pride as we see later. Kunhikuttan disappears after his wife gets pregnant. She gives birth to a son Raghu who is about seven in the narration. Devi gets a teacher s job with the help of a distant relation and looks after her sister-in-law Shyamala and mother-in-law a decrepit deaf old lady. Shyamala calls her sister-in-law Deviedathi elder sister. 05-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14375 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14356 Poetry ushers in a whirlpool of fresh ideas and a new zeal for life. It is like rain drops showering from a monsoon cloud. Madhumita Ghosh s second collection of poems Pebbles on the Shore is a timely addition to the world of poetry that is vibrant and continuously over pouring and appealing. Kolkata city poets are essentially urban and they write about their poetic reaction to metro life around them. Anchored in Kolkata Madhumita s poems dazzle with universal appeal that engages sensitive readers. 02-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14356 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14309 Aju Mukopadhyay s latest work The World of Sri Aurobindo s Creative Literature recently published by AuthorsPress N. Delhi in 2013 is yet another contribution to the ever increasing world of appreciative evaluation of Aurobindo literature. The writer has done tremendous work before undertaking the writing on the creative literature of Sri Aurobindo. Only after having gone through the works of Sri Aurobindo and some of the critical works on the great literary giant and having acquired adequate knowledge of and mastery over the creative writings of Sri Aurobindo he has undertaken this critical venture on the great master. 21-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14309 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14279 Basti by Intizar Husain originally published in Urdu in 1979 is one of the powerful novels about Partition and its aftermath. It is only after its English translation by Frances Pritchett published by Oxford University Press Delhi in 2007 it acquired wider acclaim and bouquets from the reading public both in our country and abroad. Considered a simply structured multi-layered narrative the novel about the post-independence partition of India and Pakistan and is the emergence of East Pakistan as Bangladesh. Partition is the traumatic experience of all. Those living in the North and West Bengal are the worst hit. Basti is set in a number of places real and imaginary Lahore and Delhi Rupnagar and Vyaspur. 13-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14279 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14192 Reflections a collection of Balram Cheruparambil s poems is an articulation from the heart...of the poet s feelings opinions musings and reflections on various issues and topics... 22-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14192 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14186 The 13th World Sanskrit Conference held in Edinburgh had 14 sections of which 5 papers on the mahakavya Ramayana 13 on the itihasa Mahabharata and alas only one on its khila-appendix Harivamsha have been edited by John Brockington an authority on Valmiki s great poem. The Dubrovnik conferences on epics and puranas have been focusing lately on the neglected appendix. The presence of a scholar from India Urmi Shah of Ahmedabad though solitary is most welcome. The title however begs the question as the only paper discussing battle is the editor s and brahmins are not a major concern in the rest several of which discuss the narrative art. 20-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14186 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14181 As I finished reading Red Jihad Battle for South Asia by Sami Ahmad Khan the first thought that came to my mind was Wow What a thriller Perfect movie material Wish some good film maker reads it... The book a debut novel by Sami Ahmad Khan 19-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14181 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14135 . 12-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14135 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14133 Shernaz Wadia of India and Avril Meallam from Israel made an innovative attempt to write on a common topic a poem each and fuse them with care to create a new poem. They have admirably succeeded in their endeavour. The anthology is Tapestry Poetry - A fusion of two minds. 11-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14133 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14132 . 12-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14132 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14131 . 12-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14131 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14107 It is the book review of The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti. She describes about the atrocities of Jews on the Palestinian and the struggle of Ichmad Mahmud against it. She has also described about Jews- Palestinian conflict. 08-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14107 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13993 Those who love to relax with a novel may find Cauvery Madhavan s The Uncoupling enjoyable. It is the story of a South Indian couple Balu and Janaki. They are middle-aged. Their son Ram who lives in London arranges a sixteen days all European tour for them. As the tour begins so begins the uncoupling. 16-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13993 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13968 What do you say about a literary online journal which has songs and attempts sincerely to covert poems into songs This is only one aspect of eFiction India the literary journal which publishes short fiction poetry and now is also recording songs. Moreover it is also establishing the credentials of a developing literary form - the flash fiction. 14-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13968 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13955 Stuck on 1 by forty Pritish Nandy s latest poetry book is with me in the hospital. Between treating assaults and trauma I peep into his book every day. I read his poems almost like I was treating an emergency protocol. Emergency Medicine is not flexible but his poems are and I long for that day when I can virtually fuse Medicine and Poetry so that each one can relate to the other. 09-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13955 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13937 Songs of love is another poetry collection from Dr. P.K.Padhy who is already popular for Japanese short forms. He is one of the most versatile poets with supreme quality in contemporary Indian English Poetry. It is very rare to find a journal in this universe without his poetry. This time he has chosen love as his theme and succeeded in all the seventy four poems in this collection. 05-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13937 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13920 The Muse In My Salad Days is a unique poetic literature created for all sort of readers touches upon tributes friendship nature society emotions school life native festivals human values motivation childhood divinity and patriotism. Gargi Saha can be extremely proud for adding this piece as the value to the Indian English Literature. 02-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13920 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13866 We find a lot of books based on Indian culture integrating into western in recent times. With Indian writing in English flourishing many novels and short stories exploring this area in different forms emerge. TS Tirumurti had ventured into a novel Chennaivaasi detailing the trials of an orthodox Tam-Brahm boy falling in love with a Jewish American girl Deborah but preferred to wait and marry her only with the consent of his orthodox father. How fate and incidents play role in the love story runs to 268 pages. 23-Jan-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13866 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13798 Paban Kumar Agrawalla Asst. Professor of English in Govt. P G College Itarsi M P India has published his Ph D research work in the form of the present book. Author s purpose of writing the book on the subject is as he himself has d During my student life W.B. Yeats was my favourite poet and I was thrilled by his love poems. I had always thought of doing a research on Yeats and after a lot of deliberations I found a comparison of Yeats with Rabindranath Tagore would be a befitting one. This leads the author to compare Tagore with Yeats. 15-Jan-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13798 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13728 Chasing the Monsoon is an engaging humorously written travelogue by Journalist Alexander Frater. It documents the experiences the writer faced during his travel across India following the monsoon right from its origin in South India to the North and thereafter chasing it through the East and finally culminating in Cherrapunji. 29-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13728 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13621 In this part of my article I will continue my discussion on Sil-ian Sil-ly Academic Dance-Style taking some samples from his paper The Professor and the Paramahamsa Martin Luther and Ramakrishna Compared though I will not have a single word on Luther here and concentrate on what Sil has to say about Shri Ramakrishna. 16-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13621 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13546 Poetry Manifesto is a collection of new selected poems by Vihang A. Naik who is an authentic Indian poetic voice in the contemporary scenario. He has published many poetic collection like City Times Other Poems in 1993 Jeevangeet Gujarati in 2001 and Making a Poem in 2004. This is his fourth book of poetry and third in English poetry. 07-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13546 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13520 Indian film field need not feel starved of original and sensational sci-fi thrillers in a healthy departure from the routinely run-of-the mill and soppy stuff for its stories - if only the producers directors take time to turn to Indian novel like Collision of Dimensions by MV Ravi Shanker. If none from our tinsel world has yet chanced on this fantabulous novel well they have to rue as sad losers. 04-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13520 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13500 It is a book on a bold subject that deals with female sexuality. Unapologetic Julia Dutta fearlessly traverses the murky waters hiding within its womb many situations that are kept under wraps for fear of social ostracizing. She writes without inhibitions exploring various relationships which are normally talked about only in hushed tones. Protagonists in most her stories push the boundaries till they break free 01-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13500 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13495 Here is a bunch of cute little sweet poems from the pen of one who started penning her poems from the incredible age of four. A frequent traveller seeking out the beauties of nature trees lakes flowers birds mountains hills and valleys the poet Sneha Subramanian Kanta fondly acknowledges that she has got the skill of writing poems through my mother who was a poet as well. Nature inspired both of us the most. 01-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13495 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13411 Writing poetry is a fascination for some a passion for some others while it is a religion for many. A poet does not demand rewards or awards. A word of appreciation fills his hungry heart with manna says Sonia Dalia a former Professor of English. He is also a poet translator and critic and was Visiting Fellow at Nagaland University in Nov 2005. 18-Nov-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13411 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13407 Mahatma Gandhi is mainly a collection of poems and observations that detail the movement of a man s principles. P.L. Sreedharan Parokode will make you fall in love with literature again. If you ve never liked poetry you ll love Mahatma Gandhi a collection of poems. If you haven t read much poetry then you ll fall in love with it because he has reestablished the metaphor as a grave element in poetry and takes the postmodern concept of free verse to a new form. P.L. Sreedharan Parokode is not a newcomer in poetry. He has composed a number of poems and lyrics. His poetry has received commendations from Federation Roma of Serbia Belgrade in 2007.He was selected for Bharat Excellence Award and Gold Medal in2010 Great India Citizen Award and Golden Personality award2011. 17-Nov-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13407 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13405 Twin Time a third novel by Aniruddha Raha tries to capture the twin times in India the present times and the turbulent times during the World War II. 17-Nov-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13405 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13370 Mom and I Love a Terrorist is Leema Dhar s second fictional work which is full of love thrill yet has a touch of romance in it. Her debut fiction Till We Meet Again is a National Bestseller. Once again Leema Dhar has touched upon the lives of those who are never noticed never cared for. And now her pen cuts a deep wound in the minds of readers forcing them to sit up and distinguish the crucial from the inessential. The story of the novel is very simple and it can be said that it is written in simple form. 09-Nov-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13370 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13306 Life..Love..kumbh.. is not one of those books that can be read in one sitting. I had a tough time getting through this book. Life..Love..Kumbh reminded me a lot of about Vedanta and Purana. The fact more or less of the Indian Literary world is this Authors are receiving back to their legendary roots and churning out the so-called chartbuster of the year . The book is an ode to literature the date 13th January is the death day of James Joyce. 30-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13306 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13246 The highest purpose of Dalit writing is not beauty of craft but authenticity of experience. Omprakash gives us an anatomy of oppression. Most significantly though Valmiki s story is a voice from the half of India that has been voiceless for countless generations. Valmiki and a few others like him have breached an opening for our understanding and knowledge about a people so marginalized that they disappeared from the world s awareness their cultures lifestyles folk knowledge and aspirations represented nowhere in mainstream or scholarly sources. 22-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13246 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13245 . 22-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13245 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13241 Danuta Hinc is a teacher of English Composition and Fundamentals of Spiritual Awareness at Howard Community College in Columbia USA. This novel To Kill the Other is her manifesto of Gandhian philosophy To hate the sin not the sinner . This picturesque novel presents the incident of 9 11 when the terrorist collided the aeroplane to World Trade Tower in New York USA. 22-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13241 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13236 Hilary Mantel now sixty earlier wrote nine novels in just ten years from 1990 to 2000 and she struck gold with her tenth novel Wolf Hall which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. But with Bring Up Bodies Mantel entered history as the double winner of the Man Booker Prize. The third book of the trilogy is to be called The Mirror and the Light which may now be looking forward to getting the third Booker. Bring Up the Bodiesbegins where Mantel s first book of the trilogy Wolf Hall finished. 20-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13236 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13176 Love Me and Bullshit is a debut novel by Vivek Kumar Agarwal who has worked with top-tier banking and consulting firm and is currently setting up a media venture. Love Me and Bullshit- as it is suggesting the title of the book is very interesting. Author had decided to be a writer though he was very confused before writing his maiden novel didn t know how to write and finally managed to pen this one as a bespectacled man. So all credit should go to those spectacles through which he earns his valuable experiences and manages to interpret into his novel. 13-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13176 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13171 Reading Janice Pariat s short fiction was very gratifying on many counts. Janice Pariat is a young writer originally from Shillong worked in Delhi and now is based in the School Of Oriental And African Studies London for higher studies. She is a frequent contributor to India Today and Outlook frontrunner magazines in the country. 12-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13171 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13169 The Swedish Academy has unanimously chosen Mo Yan to be the Nobel Laureate in Literature for the year 2012. With more Chinese writers like Mo the world could learn a more real China. The country faces a yawning gap between the rich and the poor worsening environment pollution and an aging population. Paying more attention to such issues Chinese writers may create more works that record the nation s journey to rejuvenation.The Garlic Ballads is a representative novel of Mo Yan. seems to have gained prominence no less than Marquez s 100 years of Solitude. 12-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13169 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13160 Chanakya s Chant is publicized as a historic fiction in the thriller genre. It in fact turned out to be more realistic and contemporary adventure of recent genre. Ashwin Sanghi the entrepreneur turned author s second novel narrates in parallel what would have happened nearly a half million years ago and what happens now in the realms of ruling community. The proceedings are similar full of vengeance thirst for power greed double crossing cruelty political chicanery and completely amoral acts. 11-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13160 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13158 It is the book review of Vinit K Bansal s maiden novel I am Heartless.. A real confession. 11-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13158 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13143 This important book brings together papers presented in the July 2005 SOAS conference Epic Constructions gender myth and society. Why is it that even in the 21st century India cannot throw up a single scholar to participate in a foreign seminar on its greatest cultural monument the Mahabharata The participants are all from England and America except one from Germany. This sad state of affairs holds true also for the Croatian Academy of Sciences international conferences on Sanskrit epics and puranas at Dubrovnik since 1997. Whether the 15th World Sanskrit Conference in New Delhi in January 2012 broke new ground or not awaits publication of the proceedings. 09-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13143 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13118 Finished reading Micro the last novel by Michael Crichton completed by Richard Preston. I feel shell-shocked Really a terrifying thriller. My awe about science and technology has immensely augmented. I shiver at the horrors that unfolded in the novel holding ominous forecasts about the future of our world and its countries. 06-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13118 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13078 This terrific novel unfolds in north India and the Bay of Bengal in 1838 on the eve of the British hit on the Chinese ports known as the foremost opium war. Ghosh begins in the villages of eastern Bihar with a panorama of characters like - Deeti soon to be widowed her opium addicted husband who works at the British opium factory at Ghazipur and Kalua a low-caste carter of immense vigor and resource. 04-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13078 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13072 Yes like perhaps in each one of us there is an island in Devi Nangrani s heart and mind hidden away even from the eyes of the heart even from our lifelong companion our physical body and she visits that island occasionally to shed a tear to Listen to her heart Beat but she does not dwell there for longer period because she is not a recluse or and escapist. She may be alone sometimes but she is never lonely. 04-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13072 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13051 Jessica Valenti challenges the myth of chastity and virginity in her book The Purity Myth. The wait-till-the-marriage concept has its limitations. It has related to the questions of health and well-being of women. 02-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13051 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13043 In the anthology of poems Beyond Images Elizabeth Kurian we call her Mona a versatile poetess has beautifully expressed her thoughts in words- expressing all the possible shades of life including the above said verse. The poems compiled in her first book along with artistic images by Sushil Thapa are really replicating each other so well that it becomes all the more easy to understand the language of poetry in unspoken words. 01-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13043 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13032 The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling s first novel for adults in which Thomas Hardy may look like P.G. Woodhouse. The world s favourite children s author wrote this dark comedy with occasional elements of fun interspersed with the theme of suicide cruel activities and even online pornography described in gynaecological detail. 30-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13032 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13030 The last part of the great epic of Bharata that Professor Lal Padma Shri and Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow succeeded in completing is now published. Devoted to the principles of governance raja-dharma it appears at a time most opportune when all principles have been cast to the winds and the polity of India is falling to pieces. ... The availability of this transcreation should bridge that hiatus. 30-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13030 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13018 How do you like to read a novel on the lines of the famous Davinci Code in the Indian milieu The answer to this question is Ashwin Sanghi s The Krishna Key . The entrepreneur turned novelist Sanghi s writing style and in depth research keep the pages filled with information theories references inferences interpretations in abundance. 01-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13018 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12979 The last 15 years has seen revival of serious studies on Shri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. The scholarly aim is to see the real men through hagiographical mist and locate them historically and also to find their modern relevance. Some of such studies have raised controversy because what is rendered in most cases is scandal-mongering academic sensationalism and sexing-up hermeneutics. In this article the author seeks to examine a sample scholarship on Ramakrishna - Prof. Narasingha Sil s paper in this case - and will show Narasingha Sil mistranslates the original Bengali source-text distorts history fabricates narrative - and all in the name of scholarship. The author intends to place before learned readers excerpts from the original Bengali source texts that Prof. Sil cites and leave matters for their judgment about the nature of modern scholarship with a prominent anti-Hindu Culture bias. 16-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12979 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12955 There is a prevalent concept about Keats that he was a sentimental youth who was crushed by failures of his life and love. But this picture was earlier challenged by Andrew Motion in his biography John Keats . The recently published biography of Keats by Nicholas Roe an otherwise outstanding anlysis of Keats s mind and art however raises a controversial question about Keatsian creativity. He argued that Keats wrote his famous poems under the influence of opium.This is highly debatable and it requires more concrete proof and scholarly research 23-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12955 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12951 My Male Friend is a maiden novel by Bushra Wadood who wants to shine in the literary sky by her talent and hard work. Being an Assistant Professor of English in Integral University Lucknow she is young energetic and a great lover of English literature. She has dedicated the novel to the people who believes in this beautiful feeling of love. 22-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12951 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12944 By Losing you I Found how much I needed you is the maiden novel of Dr Rachit Bhushan who is a young doctor from Ranchi and writes much more than his prescriptions. Being a doctor by profession and working at Ranchi Apollo Hospital he has a craze for writing. He has already become popular before the release of this book. Having a dream of writing he has succeeded in giving shape to his thoughts in the form of this novel. 22-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12944 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12924 Itibritte Chandal Jiban 2012 is by far the first well-knit Bengali dalit autobiography in recent times. The story is a thrilling and blood chilling discourse Byapari s story is an engaging discourse it is militant in texture. We hardly meet a person like him who is a living example of indomitable vitality for survival in a class and caste ridden society. 20-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12924 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12896 Bibhu Padhi s Migratory Days brings out the poet s nostalgic historical political and economic dimensions to the public space. The poet seeks to act as a voice of conscience against the gross vulgarisation of morbid social issues. Poems in the volume are antidote to the de-sensitisation of a traditional man s predicaments who is deeply rooted in his cultural nuances. 18-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12896 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12873 Mallikarjun Patil is a novelist short-story writer translator and critic. 16-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12873 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12872 K.V Dominic is an established name as a poet critic editor and short story writer. This poetry volume Winged Reason is his maiden venture to enter in the domain of Muse. 16-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12872 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12861 Last evening when I was busy returning to my flat watchman stopped me to hand an enveloped handbook that was couriered to me. The moment I held it there was a sudden increase of positive feeling with in me. There was an urge to unfold and feel the pages of the handbook. This gift must have been send by a person who loves me was an immediate feel from my heart 15-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12861 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12838 Vikrant Dutta s ballad novel Ode to Dignity is the second such work after Vikram Seth s The Golden Gate. The book reveals the wide sweep of the author s imagination and profundity of perception. The book is sui generis in its form and content. 09-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12838 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12743 But Chalocchitrer Antarmahal and Video Theke Cinematography are two important feathers added to the crown of Bengali film literature. Chalocchitrer Antarmahal written jointly by Santanu Banerjee and Piyali Chakraborty is basically a guide to making movies in videography format. But Piyali Chakraborty has also written the other book Video Theke Cinematography individually. 31-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12743 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12716 Chetan Bhagat is a much sought after author these days. He had widened his activity from fiction to analyzing facts on vision of the country and its future. Bhagat s education took him away from India for a lucrative job abroad but his passion for writing brought him back to his India which transformed him into a full fledged author and columnist of many writings. 29-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12716 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12710 Sometimes I think that in life there are always existential issues. When I read Kafka s Tria in my younger days I did get its genesis that sometimes we are controlled by factors beyond our control Reasons or logic cannot be perhaps adduced. It just happens and we have to accept it or them with steely cognition. 28-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12710 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12695 Viewed in the context of poetry being written in India Indian English poetry in spite of a distinct idiolect of different practitioners has evolved a distinct form and content of its own. At its best it centers on a deeply personal experience of homelessness alienation and disorientation. 25-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12695 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12653 All or most of the civilizations grew up on the banks of the rivers. Dulong is a small river meandering through the red-soil dry thick forest range of Midnapur district of West Bengal which sheltered the primitive people in collaboration with the earth on its banks with sky overhead and minimum of basic comforts that men could manage to get out of Nature. But Beas is a famous river one of the big five in far away Punjab which sheltered the world famous Aryans and their civilization. 20-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12653 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12588 Sudeep Chakravarti s non fictional narrative Highway 39 Journeys Through A Fractured Land recently published by Harper Collins India is a very significant contribution to our understanding of a historical social and political understanding of two strategic and contiguous states of North East India Nagaland and Manipur. These two states afflicted with brutalization of their societies is a thematic concern of the book written with striking clarity and prose. 11-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12588 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12553 The post modern bilingual poet-academic an English teacher by profession and writer by choice Jaydeep Sarangi s Laal Palasher Renu his maiden collection of Bengali poems depicts the multiplicity of poetic images ranging from the remote country side areas to the metropolitan Kolkata. 05-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12553 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12503 Among the Indian poets writing in English today Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih has a quality or element which is a rarity. It is that of humour. 27-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12503 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12502 India is unique in many ways in the entire globe I am sure India must be a singular subscriber in eulogizing poverty illiteracy and at the same time keep saying they are doing everything to wipe them out from the society. What one can expect a book on Dharavi slums 26-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12502 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12491 Magnificent. There s no other word for it. It s a well-researched book and thoroughly enjoying. Spanning a period of about sixty years it s a tale about three generations of a family and similar in some respects to Gabriel Garcia Marquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude. 24-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12491 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12455 Pijush Dhar lived in Shillong for four decades and he was known by the epithet Poet of The Hills . For twenty five years he edited Pahariya a Little Magazine which means Of The Hills . There he published Khasi Assamese Bodo poetry etc into Bengali. For these years Dhar was a painstaking Cultural Ambassador by which he promoted indigeneous poetry of North East India to the rest of the country. 17-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12455 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12402 Romantic novels need not necessarily centre on svelte and pretty women it can have someone like Nisha-the-plump-plain Jane aged twenty six years slogging on an insipid job. After all we really do not know the designs of Madame Fortune and so all of a sudden the Plain Jane bags the pricey wealthy handsome prince Samir who volunteers himself for a date. It ends up in a mess. So what Samir again comes with another date and proposes her to marry after enjoying sex. If the story ends there it would have been a just pain romantic. But Samir suddenly deserts her one fine morning with a luggage of two kids. 05-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12402 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12394 Paul Scott s novels are judicious wise and well-informed. Consistency and completeness are the remarkable features of his achievement. With the possible exception of The Bender he has not written a single novel which is not a fully serious and accomplished work of fiction. 07-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12394 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12286 Mastani is a unique book India s first historical novel that offers its readers two endings diagrammatically opposed to each other with the second ending that plugs all the holes left in the story of Mastani in traditional renderings of the myths that surround the second wife of Peshwa Baji Rao I who is widely accepted as India s answer to Napoleon Bonaparte as a unbeaten general 30-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12286 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12284 Philosophy is blood of poetry and without philosophy poetry is lame. But I have tried not to infuse too much of blood which make poetry otherwise sick is remarked by Pronab K. Majumdar the chief editor of Bridge-in making and veteran poet of IWE. For the first time it is brought to light by the poet that if the blood of philosophy is sucked up the poetry will be lame. 30-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12284 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12201 How shall vibrant shoots of the future come forth unless we go to our roots That is why Janamejaya king of Hastinapura requests Vyasa his ancestor to tell him about his lineage. Retellings of Indian mythology have been many but for the first time we have a medical doctor ministering to the spirit by evoking archetypal memories through his retellings. Of his work the most significant is this attempt to re-tell the Mahabharata in a new way. 20-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12201 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12147 This work attempts to describe how venomous anti-Brahminism has become in Maharashtra a state located in India by scrutinising the contemporary Maratha historian Prof. Namdevrao Jadhav s history books which appear to be popular. The work deems Prof. Namdevrao Jadhav who is also an advisor to the Marathi TV serial on Shivaji Raja ShivChhatrapati to be the quintessence of the expeditiously spreading spurious and menacing anti-Brahmin mentality in Maharashtra. The work suggests how power overpowers the truth in Maharashtra and India. 16-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12147 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12145 . 15-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12145 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12142 Only few biographies of a politician or the evolution of a state can keep the readers interest alive till the last page. This book on Narendra Modi the most maligned and controversial political figure of the present milieu has been written with a mission by the authors in conjunction with the growth of Gujarat State. While the entire print and electronic media have ganged up against this unique politician for the single reason that he is a believer of hindutva and he intentionally staged a pogrom after the Godhra episode the authors try to clear the clouds around the gentleman politician. 14-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12142 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12111 The truth like joy-filled time evades most people and the more people try to capture them the further away they travel. It is comparable to a computer that is loaded with all types of sophisticated software and yet fails to understand the simplest of tasks because it is are no longer part of the modern system that requires applications that are more advanced. 06-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12111 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12089 The Appu Papers edited by Pradip Bhattacharya is more than the tribute of an admiring colleague it is the story of one of India s finest bureaucrats a civil servant who epitomized Sardar Patel s vision you will not have a united India unless you have a civil service that will be able to give its opinion to the political leadership without considerations of fear or favor . It was to encourage officers to give sound professional advice to the political leadership that the Constitution of India gave the civil services the protection under Article 311 a privilege that has few parallels in the history of public administration. 01-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12089 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12056 The appearance of Interpreter of Maladies on the literary horizon has been a fabulous treat. Jhumpa Lahiri s specialty lies in her deft craft of short story writing. She s simply outstanding when it comes to short stories. Crisp language sudden psychological revelations unexpected turns in the plot and above all deep understanding of human nature mark her style in this book. 23-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12056 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12035 Arun Joshi s novel The Last Labyrinth is unique in the sense that it demonstrates very clearly inherent patterns of collective consciousness and racial memory as discussed by Jung and Frazer among psychologists and Northorp Frye Leslie Fiedler Miss Bodkin among modern myth critics. India with all her mysticism ancient religious wisdom concepts of eternal cycle sacrifice caste structure Krishna and Brahma is strewn all over the novel. This novel is a dance of ancestral grip over modern mind of man. Even though the main character of the novel Bhaskar claims to be an atheist his thinking mind and voice are full of racial memory. 16-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12035 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11934 An Equal Music by Vikram Seth is a classic in every sense of the word. An exceptional novel is often woven out of the lives of exceptional people. It is a novel of passionate individuals who are dedicated to music. Music has been presented in this novel as a noble addiction. Michael and Julia are musicians. They love playing violin and piano. The joys of creativity are for the reader to see and feel. 22-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11934 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11867 Chaman Nahal s Azadi is a simple and candid novel about the realities of India s independence and her partition. The words like sacrifice struggle non-violence sound very grand indeed but certain aspects of this important historical event were grotesque and gruesome. The novel strips off the layers of romance valor and chivalry and lays bare certain historical realities which demand attention. 06-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11867 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11855 The sensational and much awaited novel by the best selling author of I too had a Love Story is unfortunately least sensational. 04-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11855 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11849 A Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939 enabled Richard Nathaniel Wright 1908-1960 to complete his novel Native Son which is considered a monumental achievement in the world of fiction. The novel earned Wright the reputation as a protest writer who dared to expose the stresses and pathologies of the urban ghettos and in addition to that both critical acclaim and commercial success simultaneously. A masterpiece his Black Boy published in 1945 prompted Ralph Ellison to greet Wright as a black boy singing lustily as he probes his own grievous wounds and predicted that the book would do much to redefine the problem of the Negro and American Democracy Gates Jr. Henry Louis Nellie Y. McKay Eds. 1997 1377-79 . 03-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11849 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11842 Satyajit Ray had once said that with the advancement of age one is likely to become less judgmental about others. Perhaps he meant to consciousness creeping in as the life wears on. Albert Camus s novel is about the prickling shadow of demons of simply passing judgment in other words living outside of one s self. It tries to stir up the waters of judgment to see the distortions of reflecting objects. 01-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11842 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11827 Life is a constant struggle between to-day and coming tommorrow. Everyday that goes by has something to teach and it is for us to learn incline and rely on to prosper in all dimensions of reality. Truly enough the young writer Shradha Vyas has penned the human emotions that traverse a long way in the journey of life which is definitely not a bed of roses. It is a struggle within the circumference of all relations. 09-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11827 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11821 The publication of Kumarendra Mallick s debut collection of poems deserves attention. A scientist by training and occupation he has been recognised for his seminal research into electromagnetic methods in the exploration of minerals and groundwater he received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1986. After his retirement in 2001 from the National Geophysical Research Institute Hyderabad where he continues to work as an Emeritus Scientist Mallick turned his talent to poetry. He first posted his poems in Muse India the literary online publication in April 2007. In 2009 his debut collection was published. 28-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11821 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11817 The Best Thing about the book The Best Thing About You is YOU by Actor Aunpam Kher is its Brevity . Yes. Kher has touched almost all topics of self realization and improvement with the clarity and commitment of a counselor. He quotes examples form literature music and his personal life and other s lives. He drives home on simple aspects for a contended living through examples which are not too complicated but simple. 28-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11817