The Mahabharat is the longest epic in the world. In the eighties, legendary theatre and film director, Peter Brooke decided to stage it in the form of a play. To get a feel of the place it is from, he travelled with his team to India. In that small team was another legendary person, novelist … Continue reading Big Bhishma in Madras: In Search of the Mahabharata with Peter Brook by Jean-Claude Carriere (1997)
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Mysteries in April
In April, I read both fictional and non-fictional mysteries.THE SHUDDERS by ANTHONY ABBOTWe all know those books that begin with a bang but end with a whimper. Thus it was with Anthony Abbot's The Shudders, a book that I could not put down initially and then could not believe that in the end it amounted … Continue reading Mysteries in April
Journey of the Self: Aatish Taseer’s Stranger to History
"I had sought out my father because I couldn't live with the darkness of not knowing him."Absent fathers make for haunting presence. Think of Hamlet, Ghosts, and The Glass Menagerie.Aatish Taseer's first book: Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands is a young man's search for his father who like the father in … Continue reading Journey of the Self: Aatish Taseer’s Stranger to History
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