Book Review of River of Fire ( آگ کا دریا ) Aag ka Darya, by Qurratulain Hyder 428 pages Review by Anil Saxena Reading ‘River of Fire’ feels like returning to a first-rate classic after a long time. Though written in 1959, the novel appears strikingly contemporary and modern even after more than half a […]
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Book Review in Hindi of ‘Tobacco Road’ (टोबैको रोड), by Erskine Caldwell 146 pages Review by Dinesh Dhawane महामंदी का कठोर यथार्थ टोबैको रोड का कथानक अमेरिका के जॉर्जिया राज्य के ग्रामीण इलाकों में घटित होता है, उस समय जब अमेरिका महामंदी (Great Depression) के दौर से गुजर रहा था। दक्षिणी अमेरिका कृषि-प्रधान समाज था
Book Review of ‘Fahrenheit 451’, by Ray Bradbury Pages: 212 Review by Anil Saxena The Eternal Struggle Over Books There has always been a struggle between lovers of books and those who hate them—so much so that some take enormous glee in burning them. History is replete with such incidents, yet books have never lost
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Book Review of ‘The Hungry Tide’, by Amitav Ghosh Pages: 439 Review by Anil Saxena The Setting: The Sundarbans Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide is set in the hauntingly beautiful yet treacherous landscape of the Sundarbans, “a land half submerged at high tide, yet never dry at low.” Here, land and water are inseparably bound,
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Book Review, and The Alchemy of Language, of ‘Ret Samadhi’ (Tomb of Sand), by Geetanjali Shree. 375 pages Translated in English by Daisy Rockwell Review by Anil Saxena This 375-paged novel in Hindi (and its English translation Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell) has created a storm in the literary circles of India, for it
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