"And who, in God's name, is He?" A Book Review on 'Ka'

 Posted on February 11, 2012  |  14 minutes  |  2920 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

_By _****N.S.Jagannathan Ka: Roberto Calasso. Translated from original Italian by Tim Parks. Vintage Paperback 1999 Pages 448. Price $ 3. . Amidst the deafening din of post-Colonial chatter on the dark designs of Orientalists “colonising the source texts”, of the colonised, I am all the time nagged by a niggling doubt: how literate are these critics in Sanskrit and other native Indian languages? [Read More]
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Dreaming Through ´Ka´

 Posted on February 9, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  149 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

The author seems to be trying to achieve the effect of time all being one moment. The effect of this hits the reader in full force in the end when it goes back to Garuda, who was last mentioned in the first chapter reading the Rg Veda, waking up from a light doze on the word ‘Ka’. [Read More]
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