Ranjit Hoskote
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Jonahwhale, in three beautiful movements, takes on very current themes in its playful, mostly aquatic scope, moving from the ocean to the river Ganges to Marine Drive itself. It raises the narratives of Biblical eight century prophet Jonah, who escapes death by spending three nights in the belly of a whale, and the more recent Moby Dick, whose obsessive Captain Ahab chases the eponymous whale who bit off his leg; even as it resurrects the diverse figures who ran ...
In Central Time, Ranjit Hoskote becomes the storyteller of a turbulent epoch. We meet Ovid and Ghalib, poets in exile or eclipse, in these poems, which are by turns elliptical, conversational and narrative. We meet painters who betray their art, and sculptors who are betrayed by theirs. Fascinated by the enigmas of time, memory and evanescence that art invokes, Hoskote addresses a range of artists including Bihzad, Magritte, Masaki Fujihata and Ranbir Kaleka. At ...
The poems of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded, popularly known as Lalla, strike us like brief and blinding bursts of light. Epiphanic and provocative, they shuttle between the vulnerability of doubt and the assurance of an insight gained through resilience and reflection. These poems are as sensuously evocative as they are charged with an ecstatic devotion: Lalla does not surrender meekly to enlightenment but embraces it with wild passion.
The poet ...
The Dialogue Series explores the concerns, careers and contexts of some of India's most acclaimed artists. Each book in the series takes the form of an extended conversation between an individual artist and the authors. The Dialogue Series provides sharply etched portraits of the artists and critically engaged accounts of their work. It sees each artist's journey in review, with its distinctive transitions, breakthroughs and evolutionary rhythms.The ...
The Dialogue Series explores the concerns, careers and contexts of some of India's most acclaimed artists. Each book in the series takes the form of an extended conversation between an individual artist and the authors. The Dialogue Series provides sharply etched portraits of the artists and critically engaged accounts of their work. It sees each artist's journey in review, with its distinctive transitions, breakthroughs and evolutionary rhythms.The ...
Classicist by sensibility, contemplative by temperament, Jehangir Sabavala has enjoyed the fulfilling destiny of a painter who never ceases from exploration. At the age of seventy-five, he can look back over a distinguished career that spans five eventful decades. Sabavala has had no patience with the fluctuations of fashion, ideology and political necessity. He has always stood apart from schools and movements, not from arrogance so much as from the desire to ...
Reasons for Belonging brings together some of the most striking voices in contemporary Indian poetry in English. These poets are at home in the world. Most of them operate from India’s metropolitan centres, and their poetry reflects the formal assurance and urbane fluency of that position. They celebrate the possibilities of hybridity; they are cosmopolitan in their attitudes, and English is their first language of creative expression. Their poetry emerges from ...
From icy Gaumukh, the source of one of the world’s most celebrated rivers, Ilija Trojanow began a remarkable two-month journey: down the Himalayas, past the great cities of Allahbad, Varanasi and Patna, to Gangasagar, where the river meets the sea. Travelling by inflatable boat, on foot, by bus and overcrowded trains, he moved through landscapes where the past and the future, mythic imagination and hard reality come together, and in this book he recounts for us ...
Vanishing Acts by Ranjit Hoskot?, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award 2004, brings together some of his best poetry, drawn from his three published collections, along with a substantial body of new poems. While continuing to explore the interplay between the epic, devastating sweep of historical events and an intimate, often vulnerable, self, his new poems dwell on emigrants, fugitives, interpreters, double agents—survivors who walk the fragile ...
Baiju Paarthan, who entered the contemporary Indian art scene as a self-declared 'outsider', is today an acclaimed painter. He is also one of the pioneers of intermedia art in India. Written by the noted art critic, poet and independent curator Ranjit Hoskote, Baiju Parthan: A User's Manual takes the reader on a tour through the artist's diversely populated imagination. It maps Parthan's journey from his childhood in Kerala, through his student years ...
Iranna GR was born in 1970, and has painted professionally for 10 years. His studentship took place amid great upheaval in the Indian class system and a fierce debate about Indian art. The state ceased to control the economy thus opening the country up to private business. Although this was generally positive it also had the effect of generating religious and traditionalist friction. Between 1999 and 2000 Iranna acted as artist-in-residence at Wimbledon School of ...