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Allahabad, Rehka and Amina meet after what seems like an eternity. They have shared much in their days as young neighbours in Bulbul Kothi: dolls, gossip, bits of adult-only knowledge. Perhaps things would have been different had Rekha’s affair with Danish-Bhai not ended in bitterness and heartbreak all those years ago. Now in their fifties, they would like to put certain details behind them. If they could.
A new age of cell phones, communal tension and ...
The diverse cultural faces of the city are presented in the words of writers who know Allahabad intimately. A city with a Buddhist past, a Hindu identity, an Islamic heritage, and a Christian presence, Allahabad was a highly, active power centre during the freedom struggle and produced political leaders, lawyers, civil servants, and intellectuals in its heyday. Contemporary Allahabad, retains the best of the old and is selectively absorbing the new. Contents : ...
After a bomb blast rips through Sikandar Chowk Park, Allahabad, killing fifty-seven people, a journalist pieces together the lives of eleven of the dead from the heap of mutilated bodies. Among them a self-effacing music teacher who won’t go abroad on a fellowship because of his family of stray dogs; an Anglo-Indian widow coping with the knowledge of her husband’s infidelity thirty-five years ago; a precocious ‘problem’ child; a firebrand feminist ...
This work announces the advent of a talented young writer of fiction. In 'A New Year's Party', Geoffrey finds all his attempts to throw a successful party come to naught as his inappropriately chosen guests make their dislike for each other very vocal; the wonderful camaraderie that can exist between a four-year-old and his ancient Nana is explored in 'Song of Innocence and Experience'; two men's lives follow a similar pattern in ' A diagnosis of Destiny' - and ...
How do villagers respond to pornography? Not very differently from their big-city cousins, we discover in the wonderfully comic 'Chandu and the Bissyaar', one of the 18 evocative stories in Neelam Saran Gour's third successful book of fiction. Some of the other stories portray a vivid kaleidoscope of provincial bazaars, claustrophobic bedrooms, cemeteries, courtyards, hospital corridors and park benches, we are introduced to varied and colorful characters forging ...