Stories about Literature in New Delhi
Film Review: The Man Who Would Be KingCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] "He wants to know if you are gods?" "Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing." Free will and kismet go hand in hand in John Huston's epic adventure The Man Who Would Be King, a tale based on the...
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The Enigmas of IndiaKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] According to the newspapers, India is a place of bizarre religious rituals and constant communal violence, appalling poverty, and incurable despair. And it is. But it is also a place of spiritual...
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An Invitation to Infinity: TagoreKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] In India every morning, millions of schoolchildren unwittingly sing a song composed by a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The song is India's national anthem; its author is Rabindranath...
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India Is Like That OnlyKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Bombay-born author Rohinton Mistry's incredible novel A Fine Balance.
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The John Bull BrahminKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Paul Theroux's Sir Vidia's Shadow, his memoir of VS Naipaul.
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A Primer of Modern IndiaKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] In the days preceding Indian Independence Day, hordes of street children sell small paper tricolors, the saffron and green flags of their native land. And they do so with smiles full of teeth and...
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Regarding Sir VidiaKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Is V. S. Naipaul a Thing Asian? By this I mean, what, if anything, is Asia, and how does Naipaul fit into it? According to my dictionary, the word Asia refers to the "largest continent, occupying...
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GitaKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] The first time I read the Bhagavad Gita was for me an experience similar, I suspect, to taking a strong analgesic or euphoriant. The "thousand natural shocks/That flesh is heir to" - Hamlet's phrase -...
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India Upward and ApartKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Stanley Wolpert's "A New History of India", Oxford University Press, 2000.
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The Indian Iliad to the Nth DegreeKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] A brief essay on RK Narayan's prose version of the Mahabharata.
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