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  • Book Review: “Woman at Point Zero” by Nawal El Saadawi

    “Woman at Point Zero” by Nawal El Saadawi, a blazing angry novella on female rage.

    Barathi Nakkeeran

  • Looking for a new home for your old books?

    “Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who…

    Barathi Nakkeeran

  • Book Review: “Tamil Characters” by A.R. Venkatachalapathy

    “Logically speaking, such a state should be a laggard, low down on the development scale. Yet, it is exactly during the time of Dravidian politics that the state has made great strides in development. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, in An Uncertain Glory (2013), summarise these achievements in the clearest terms. Describing the ‘rapid progress in a…

    Barathi Nakkeeran
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