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Memories of a shared life
Reviewed by Roopinder Singh
The Wings of Time
By Salma Mahmud
Har Anand Publications.
Pages 152. Rs 395
IT does not take a long
life for someone to be remembered, it is how much impact that a person
leaves which makes others reminisce about him even much after he is
gone. Accomplishments, associations and the memories that a person
leaves- all form the intangible legacy of the memory of a shared life.
Walk and let heritage talk
Delhi is like a palimpsest
of cities layered in time one upon the other. And walking through the
pages of history is the best way to know this pristine and magnificent
city, writes Rajnish Wattas
Delhi — 14 Historic
Walks
By Swapna Liddle
Westland. Pages 288. Rs
495
THE stones of Delhi’s
monuments speak silently of bygone eras, empires, kings, saints,
marauders; and the once-upon-a-time splendour of their architecture,
littered and strewn all over the vast metropolis. There is hardly a road
or bend where you are not likely to run into some ruin or a crumbling
monument.
Rivered Earth
resonates with music, calligraphy
The Rivered Earth
By Vikram Seth
Hamish Hamilton. Pages 112. £ 314.99
MUSIC, calligraphy,
conversations and poetry merge in Vikram Seth's new anthology of poetry,
The Rivered Earth, an eclectic journey into the heart of rhythmic
lyricism that the writer of The Golden Gate - a novel in verse -
is known for.
A philo-poetic fable
Reviewed by Deepti Swami
Melancholy of Innocence
By Raj Doctor.
Frog Books. Pages 342. Rs
250
DO you remember the rush
of first love when everything around you turns beautiful and the
serenity of love follows you no matter where you are? When that special
person beholds the ethereal qualities and you cannot help smiling to
yourself. Melancholy of Innocence takes you back to that pure feeling of
being immensely enchanted by the heady fragrance of beloved and melody
of emotions.
When Nixon saw a shrink
IT is a secret that could
have stopped Richard Nixon becoming president of the US. He was secretly
seeing a psychiatrist during the height of his political career, a new
book has claimed. Nixon began seeing Arnold Hutschnecker in 1952 with a
string of complaints he thought were all in his mind, like back and neck
pain and insomnia, according to the Daily Mail.
Bringing back the focus on
words
Bodhisatwa Dasgupta, Copy
Controller at Ogilvy and Mather, is preventing words from fading into
obscurity. Avirook Mitra reports
THIS is an age dominated
by visuals, where images make more impact than words. Even cinema
becomes the preferred medium as many children and adults move away from
books. The world of advertising,
too, is no different. Many advertisements today rely more on
eye-catching pictures to sell the product, than on the accompanying
copy.
Enter The Guide, now in a theatrical avatar
Forty-four years after
R.K.
Narayan’s literary milestone, Guide, the love story of tour guide Raju
and dancer Rosy, was made into a Broadway musical with a score set by
maestro Ravi Shankar, the novel will brought to the Indian stage in an
adaptation by Amitabh Shrivastava. The novel breaks
conventions by probing extra-marital romance as its theme, director of
the play Sanjoy K. Roy said.
Subtle tones
Reviewed by Nonika Singh
The Mad Tibetan: Stories
from Then and Now
By Deepti Naval
Amaryllis. Pages 159. Rs 395
THE world knows her as a
talented actor`85. those who have kept tabs on her also are aware that
she is a poet of considerable mettle. But the acclaimed actor as a story
teller? Well, as she turned one with her first collection of short
stories titled The Mad Tibetan, the result is as impacting as her tryst
with celluloid.
short takes
Spellbinding narratives
Randeep Wadehra
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