Amitav Ghosh’s new novel Sea of Poppies, the first of a proposed trilogy, has just been published.Near the beginning of Sea of Poppies, Deeti, the central character, has a vision of the Ibis, the schooner that will eventually carry her away from India. For me, too, the book began in much the same way - except that the vision that was revealed to me was of Deeti herself.
… is here. My favourites: Robin David’s disturbing memoir City of Fear in the English non-fiction category, and Amitava Kumar’s novel Home Products in the English fiction category; as for Indian language fiction translation, both Govardhan’s Travels (by Anand) and Naalukettu (by M.T.Vasudevan Nair) were superb, and both are by the same translator, Gita Krishnankutty.
Sanctuary Asia is holding a film festival to celebrate the beautiful Royal Bengal Tiger, in association with NCPA and the Wildlife Conservation Trust on June 18 & 19.
Venue: NCPA. No entry fee. Entry by pass. Contact Sanctuary Asia for more details.
Paromita Vohra emails that some of her films are going to play online in a web-based film festival for the next month or so. She adds that there are also several other contemporary films - documentaries and shorts by a substantial number and variety of independent filmmakers on the website. The films are free to watch but are not downloadable.
Paromita’s films Unlimited Girls (94 min.), Q2P (54 min.) and Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City (14 min.) are available on the site, here.
The website is here.
