This narrative is like a vast desert with few oases
Empty, cash-driven cosmopolitanism vs the 'real' India
Includes stories from an earlier generation of writers who are no more and ignores the new generation that's registered a strong presence in the last one or two decades.
Some of Kambar’s primary concerns are reflected in these plays that use classical, folk and modern techniques: the forging of an identity pared of its technical appendages, and the need to fight insular religiosity
As Marxist-Leninists in Kerala fought facelessly, the People’s Cultural Forum exploded in creativity, with new idioms in literature, music, theatre, film and art
A gimlet-eyed Gulzar deals with intolerance, a gloating media, persistent injustices, and a failed national project. All are skewered in startling imagery.
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