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Monthly Archives: April 2007

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Namesake Jumpa

The story is like a sketch of immigrant lives and the generations there of. I think in the recent past enough ink has been spent on writing about the dilemmas of NRIs and the ABCD generation. This would book also would fall in the same category, though it takes a slightly larger canvas covering the immigration, the emotions of two generations and how they change and converge with time. The protagonist family is Bengali, probably the culture author is most [...]



‘Our Films Their Films’ by Satyajit Ray

Our films

As the title suggests Satyajit Ray writes about his own films and about the world cinema that influenced and that he was a part of. It is a collection of essays written over a period of more than twenty years from 1940s to 1970s. Since they were written at different points in time, at times they give an impression of disjointed thoughts but at the same time you get to know the thought process of someone in the middle of [...]