`Trying to remember our way back into past realities, past rooms, past beliefs is a first step towards measuring the depths of change in ourselves and the world. It’s also a reminder that the progress we may now take for granted is the result of many major accomplishments of the past and just the beginning of […]
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Author: Shashi Deshpande
On Criticism
Barbara Epstein calls reviewing a special skill. In India unfortunately, no skill seems to be necessary. Anyone, just about anyone, it seems, can do a review of any book, any author, any genre. To quote Doris Lessing: ` … a young man or woman, reviewer or critic, who has not read more of a writer’s work […]
The Gender Of A Thought..
VS Naipaul’s comment on women writers (The Nobel Prize-winning author declared that women’s writing is “unequal” to his, during an event at the recent Hay Festival), is scarcely worth responding to. Surely all writers know that we leave it to readers and time to judge our writing? And surely it is in bad taste to declare, […]