Deepavali
I remember Deepavali through my uncle’s cracker shop, my brother, childhood friends and evenings filled with smoke, noise and daring. Now I mostly watch the lights and long for a time when such small joys meant everything.
I remember Deepavali through my uncle’s cracker shop, my brother, childhood friends and evenings filled with smoke, noise and daring. Now I mostly watch the lights and long for a time when such small joys meant everything.
An interruption in my explorations into the Novel occurred mainly because I delved into criticism and metafiction. As an interlude it helped me to understand the art of writing fiction. The classifications and ramifications are so vast that I started to long for a comforting novel and tumbled into 3 books that I haven’t read….
After a hiatus of nearly 7 years I travelled in an unreserved train compartment recently from Nellore to Vijayawada. Travel in a reserved air conditioned coach is a sanitised experience where order and protocol is enforced on an otherwise chaotic Indian railway carriage. Also boundaries of class because of the higher cost of the travel create barriers of access. A group of Bhavanis boarded the compartment along with me.
బుచ్చిబాబు ‘చివరకు మిగిలేది’లో దయానిధి వ్యక్తిత్వం, ప్రేమ, అన్వేషణ, వైరుధ్యం, శూన్యం మరియు సత్యాన్వేషణ గురించి నా ఆత్మీయ సాహిత్య పరిశీలన.
The story deepens, the characters evolve, and new questions arise in this continued exploration.
More books, more conversations, and the many ways they stay with us.
A beginning that lingers — between what is said and what remains unspoken.
ప్రేమ గురించి ఆలోచిస్తే నాకు మొదట గుర్తుకొచ్చే నవల లవ్ ఇన్ ది టైమ్ ఆఫ్ కలరా. ప్రేమ లోని అనేక దృక్కోణాలు, పార్శ్వల గురించి Marquez ఈ నవలలో విస్తృతంగా స్పృశించాడు. ప్రేమ నిర్మలమైనది, అమలినమైనది కాదని ఈ నవల మనకు తెలియచేస్తుంది. ప్రేమలో అనంతమైన స్వార్ధం ఉన్నది, అనుకున్నది, కోరుకున్నది దక్కించుకోవాలన్న కాంక్ష ఉన్నది. నేను చదువుకున్న త్యాగమయమైన ప్రేమ కధలకు ఇది పూర్తిగా భిన్నమైనది. యుక్త వయస్సు నుంచి తను ప్రేమించిన Fermina…
Being shipwrecked on a remote, uninhabited island in the 18th century. Communication is non-existent. There is no hope of rescue. The wreck is the only source of supplies but there is the green tropical island full of Nature’s bounty. This is the age of enlightenment, the age of discovery. An age which believes in the…
A return to Sholokhov’s sweeping Cossack world, where war, revolution, landscape, love and human endurance move together across generations.