Aditya Narayan Sharma
@AdityaNSharma
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I have an essay in the latest Mekong Review about Saadat Hasan Manto. With the wisdom and warmth of his stories, and the immense span of his moral universe the great bard of Partition was so much more than that. PDF link in the comments!
mekongreview.com/multitudes/
“Much like Lahiri, I am concerned with the ways in which India’s violent history has produced the Bengali immigrant. As writers, we can let the political live in the blank space between sentences.” Rani Neutill রানী writes about Jhumpa Lahiri’s works. lareviewofbooks.org/article/prohib…
'If the IIC is geriatric, the JLF is young; if the IIC is a 19th-century novel, the JLF is magic realism.' Sumana Roy's essays are some of the smartest criticism of indian - or any - literature today.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ii…
from the introduction to The Atlantic's fascinating october 1953 issue on india. another treat: 'As one Marathi writer said, “We have seen the politicians and the businessmen. We have had enough of that. Send us your writers. Send us Hemingway.”'
'Still, I like to think that Plath wrote The Bell Jar for those who, like me and her, are seized and haunted by certain images and certain notions—even those that may, at any point, turn on us.' Rafaela Bassili
theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
print copy of the latest Mekong Review has turned up, get hyped - thank you 🙋🏻‍♀️ k i r s t!!
story here: mekongreview.com/the-somnambuli…