Faber, Rs 650
Review by Uddalak Mukherjee
Of the nine chapters written by Jonathan Glancey, the fourth, with its innocuous title, “Headhunting and Basket Weaving”, disturbed me the most. Unlike some other chapters that contain graphic accounts of brutalities perpetrated by the Indian army on the Naga people Read the rest of this entry »
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Thechano Kithan’s Whispering Rocks. Unistar Books, Chandigarh, India, 2006, pp. 62.
Perhaps the title of this collection of poems, “Whispering Rocks,” is best explained by the author herself in the opening paragraph of her introduction to the book. It refers to the “unshakable strength” of mute rocks that break their native silence in a language all their own because they can no longer bear their secret longings. If this explanation does not fully satisfy, the reader who becomes privy to the whispering rocks will soon discover the aptness of the image as a metaphor for the poet’s (or poetic persona’s) own lived experiences out of which these poems emerged. Read the rest of this entry »
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