Kiran Bhat
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Vyasa, Kalidasa, Tagore, Manto, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Melville
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The Trees is a semi-real semi-surreal novel by Percivel Everett, depicting the happenstances of a murder in the context of the Southern US. Race and racial tensions are the obvious themes of the book, but what I loved about the Trees was the liveline ...more | |
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Hey Richard nice to hear from you. Thanks also for reviewing my book all those years back :) I will say that I did enjoy reading Pynchon and some scen
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This is probably more of a reaction than a review. Gravity's Rainbow is one of the most befuddling books I have ever read. It reminds me of an Allen Ginsberg poem if Allan Ginsberg poems went on forever. This is my third time trying to get into it an ...more | |
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Out! Is an anthology of queer short stories published out of India. Most of the stories involve young Indians come to terms with sex and enjoying sex and learning to be themselves in society. A lot of the stories are repetitive… there is a lot of foc ...more | |
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American Indian Stories is a collection of stories by Sioux activist and author Zitkala Sa. The first half of the collection is autobiographical and the second half is a compilation of mythological tales. Zitkala-Ada’s style is crisp and well structu ...more | |
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Sophie's Choice is a novel written by William Styron which tells the tale of a writer from the American South trying to make it, as well as another story embedded in that, a harrowing tale of a woman living through the Holocaust and the choices she m ...more | |
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A Footbridge to Hell Called Love is a novel penned by Moazzam Sheikh which tells the colourful life of a Pakistani origin person living in San Francisco. What gives the novel its flavour is the friends that main character Aslam makes on the way. Shei ...more | |
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Kedney's Between the Earth and Sky is a moving collection of poems centered around a brother's trials and tribulations with heroin and its effects on his family. The poems strand the line between piercing telling moment and auto-fiction. Kedney is ve ...more | |
“In an ideal world, as connectivity progresses, each human of our world would function the way a cell functions in a human body. We would see each other in the context of our individuality but realise how our individual actions both directly and indirectly affect the greater Earth. It would be as if our Atmans (our individual spirits) could merge into a Brahmin (a cosmic unity)”
― We of the Forsaken World...
― We of the Forsaken World...
“God knows I have met with the most eccentric of characters to be seen in a village as small as this one, but when elders meet with youngsters, it is common for the elders to do all of the talking and for the youngsters to sit quietly and await their judgment.”
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“Love is one of those things little children dream about, but something which no woman of age will experience…”
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