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INSPECTOR IMANISHI INVESTIGATES by SEICHO MATSUMOTO
The investigation itself is superbly plotted, but what captures your attention is the depiction of Japan in the 1960s. Japan is rebuilding after WW-2. Tokyo is on its way to becoming a modern city. The...
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Stars from Another Sky - Saadat Hasan Manto's book on the Bombay Film World...
This book, ‘Stars from Another Sky,’ was first released in 1998, and I must have read it sometime between 1999 and 2000. I was still at CIEFL, trying to complete my thesis. I had read Manto’s short...
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ON THE SANDS OF CAVELOSSIM BEACH
ON THE SANDS OF CAVELOSSIM BEACH And, here we are And now that we are hereLet’s sit for a whileRest our limbs and mindAnd later We’ll see what we can do hereThere’s lots we can doButLet’s sit for a...
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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF POEMS ON THE INDIAN CITY ... My translations of K V...
This monumental anthology, THE PENGUIN BOOK OF POEMS ON THE INDIAN CITY, edited by Bilal Moin, arrived at my door some days ago ... and I was elated ... to say the least ... On 13th August last year, I...
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Chandan Gowda's "Another India: Events, Memories, People"
11 June 2025This book, Chandan Gowda's 'Another India: Events, Memories, People,' has been living in the ‘cart’ for so many days and four days ago, I pushed the button, and it came home yesterday. I...
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THE SUNDAY SECONDHAND BOOKS BAZAAR AT ABID’S ... YESTERDAY ONCE MORE ...
Yesterday’s visit came about for one main reason. I had to deliver a bottle of mango pickles to Vinod, my friend. Every summer Shruti makes this sweet pickle out of raw ‘elephant’ mangoes, red...
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GOING TO THE BOOKS BAZAAR AT ABID’S ON A SUNDAY MORNING
After a gap of almost two years, I visited the Sunday second-hand books bazaar at Abid’s yesterday. The main purpose was to meet my friend Vinod Ekbote, who I hadn’t met for, again, almost two years....
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'ಕೆಂಡಸಂಪಿಗೆ'ಯಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ “ಲೋಕ ಕಾವ್ಯ ವಿಹಾರ” ಸರಣಿ - ೧ - ಎಸ್ಟೋನಿಯಾ ದೇಶದ ಕವಿ ಯುಹಾನ್...
ಗೊಂದಲಮಯ ದ್ವಂದ್ವಾರ್ಥತೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ದೃಷ್ಟಿಕೋನದ ಕ್ಷಿಪ್ರ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗಳನ್ನೊಳಗೊಂಡ ವೀಡಿಂಗ್-ರ ವಿಕೇಂದ್ರಿತ, ಸಾಂಕೇತಿಕ ಮತ್ತು ಬಹುತಾರ್ಕಿಕ ಕಾವ್ಯಶೈಲಿ 1970-ರ ಮತ್ತು 80-ರ ದಶಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಎಸ್ಟೋನಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಯುವ...
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LOOK WHAT I GOT IN THE MAIL YESTERDAY!! A SIGNED COPY OF MIROSLAV HOLUB'S...
Just a week ago, I had discovered the renowned Czech poet MIROSLAV HOLUB for myself and had translated one of his poems into Kannada. As is my wont I wanted to see if any of his books of translated...
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LET THEM BE, THOSE CITIES THAT HAVE GROWN OLD - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF H. S....
Kannada original: Haage Bittubidi Muppaada Shaharugalannu ಹಾಗೇ ಬಿಟ್ಟುಬಿಡಿ ಮುಪ್ಪಾದ ಷಹರುಗಳನ್ನುPoet: H. S. SHIVA PRAKASHEnglish translation: S. Jayasrinivasa Rao LET THEM BE, THOSE CITIES THAT HAVE GROWN...
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AMMA’S FLUTE - English translation of B. M. BASHEER's "AMMANA KOLALU"ಅಮ್ಮನ ಕೊಳಲು
Dear friends ... here is my English translation of B. M. Basheer's Kannada poem AMMANA KOLALU ಅಮ್ಮನ ಕೊಳಲು ... sometime during last year, I had bought a set of Kannada poetry books and Mr Basheer's...
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ಉದುರಾಟ ನಿದ್ರೆಯ ಆಯಾಸದಿಂದ ಎದ್ದು ಮೈ ಕೈ ಮುರಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗಕಟ ಕಟ ಸದ್ದಿನ ಜೋಡಿಪಟ ಪಟ ಸದ್ದು ಕೇಳಿ ಬಂತುಕಿವಿಗೊಟ್ಟು ಕೇಳಿದೆಏನೋ ಪುಟಿಯುತ್ತಿದೆಪಟ .... ಪಟ .... ಪಟಪಟ .... ಪಟ ....ಒಂದಲ್ಲ, ಎರಡಲ್ಲ, ಸುಮಾ...ರು ಕರ್ಟನ್ ಕೋಣೆಯ ಅರೆ...
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ಕಂಬಳಿ ಹುಳು ಕಂಬಳಿ ಹುಳುವೆ ಕಂಬಳಿ ಹುಳುವೆಬೇಸಿಗೆಯಲಿ ನಿನಗೆ ಶೆಕೆಯಾಗುದಿಲ್ಲವೆ?ಕಂಬಳಿ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಚಿಂತಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ನಾಅದು ಹೊರಗಿರುತ್ತೆನಾ ಒಳಗಿರುತ್ತೆ ನಾ ಹೊರಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕಂಬಳಿ ಕಂಬಳಿಕಂಡವರಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಶೆಕೆ ಶೆಕೆಒಳಗೆ ನಾ ತಂಪು...
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ಹೀಗೊಂದು ಆಸೆ ಮೂರನೆ ಮಹಡಿಯ ಫ್ಲಾಟಿನ ಬಾಲ್ಕನಿಗಂಟಿದ ನನ್ನ ಕೋಣೆಯಲಿ ಕೂತುಹಗಲಲ್ಲಿ ಓದು ಬರಹ ಅದೂ ಇದೂಮಾಡುತ್ತಾ ... ಎಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಸದ್ದು ಹೊರಗಿಂದರಸ್ತೆಯಲಿ ಬರುವವರು ಮಾರುವವರುಬೆಳ್-ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ ಅನ್ವರ್ ಹೂವಿನಂವಪಲ್ಯಾಕಾಯಿ ಮಾರುವವರಂತೂ ಸದಾ...
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Ageyuvudu -- Kannada translation of Seamus Heaney's 'Digging'
This is my Kannada translation of Seamus Heaney's English poem Digging. This is also my first attempt at translation from English to Kannada.The original English poem:
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Translating K V Tirumalesh's poems...From the banks of Osman Sagar...Osman...
Hi all...this is another Hyderabad poem of K V Tirumalesh Sir...I translated it as part of my Tirumalesh's Hyderabad Poems project...all these translations were done in the second half of last...
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Translating Prof. K V Tirumalesh's Kannada poems into English...Hyderabad...
Hi all … two years ago I started translating Hyderabad-based poems of eminent Kannada poet Prof. K. V. Tirumalesh, taken from his early collections, Mukhamukhi (1978) and Avadha(1986). Prof. Tirumalesh...
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Hyderabad Book Fair December 2018 -- 4 books on Indian Art
Last day of this year’s Book Fair … 25 December 2018 … tried valiantly all the previous days to visit the book fair, but no success, and so I was determined … I wanted to reach before the crowds came...
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This is what I read last week … Burglars Can’t Be Choosers … Lawrence Block’s...
I came across the name Lawrence Block when I was looking for Michael Connelly’s short stories featuring Bosch. This was a story called Nighthawks that was included in an anthology of stories inspired...
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What have you been reading these days? The Liar in the Library
The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett is again a series novel, the 18thin the Fethering Mysteriesseries. This book too was released in 2017. Simon Brett is one of the writers I discovered for myself...
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