Satyajit Ray: life, influences, writings
“We kept looking at our two-year-old like: we know we have to take care of you, but we don’t know what to do.”
“Returning was, in many ways, harder than setting out had been. My nerves were wrecked, I couldn’t feel my legs, and the silence had finally caught up to me.”
A review of Craig Lockard’s book ‘Southeast Asia In World history’
A review of Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Close-Up’ (1990)
In this collection, poetry becomes a way of signalling: we are not alone
“Profanity conveys emotion in a manner that ‘cleaner’ language struggles to—and who wouldn’t want the ability to so powerfully and instantaneously express emotion?”
“Glück’s voice was shaped by bedtime stories narrated to her by her father, a Hungarian immigrant to the USA, who helped invent the X-Acto knife. The influence shows: her writing is as knife-sharp, incisive, and clean as a bone.”
Rijneveld slips into pettier, liminal emotions, masterfully creating cross-sections of envy, guilt, and boredom in ‘The Discomfort of Evening.’
Devotees around India adapt to usher in their beloved deity during virus-ridden times.