Monthly Archives: January 2009

JHUMPA LAHIRI’S MAGICAL LANGUAGE

What is it with Jhumpa Lahiri? Her language does not bristle with style, never calls attention to itself.  She writes with a quiet clarity, her language supple yet unaffected, her tales mostly revolving around the mundane, ordinary facts of daily … Continue reading

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THE COMFORT OF OTHER VOICES, EVEN FROM THE MOON

Well, I haven’t blogged in months! My silence was due to a touch of melancholy, no doubt, and what drove that melancholy was most certainly a decision to reverse itself by the small press which had contracted to bring out … Continue reading

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