In Search of Distance is built upon the reflections and reminiscences of a young man, Krishan, after the death of his grandmother’s former caretaker, Rani. In Search of the Distance by Anuk ArudpragasamĪfter his DSC Prize-winning novel This is the Story of a Brief Marriage (2016), Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasam returns with a new stream-of-consciousness novel in July. Ansari’s account, to be published in the first week of January, offers an insider’s insight into Indian politics and what goes on behind the scenes.
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In a year that will see a slew of political memoirs, one of the most anticipated one comes from former vice-president, Hamid Ansari, who occupied the office for two full terms. (Rupa Publications Non-fiction) Ansari’s account, to be published in the first week of January, offers an insider’s insight into Indian politics and what goes on behind the scenes. In this memoir that releases in January, Feisal Alkazi attempts a history of the first families of theatre, weaving them with anecdotes, insider accounts and some never-seen-before photographs.īy Many A Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life by M Hamid Ansari The history of theatre, indeed of the arts, in Independent India is incomplete without a homage to the Alkazis and the Padamsees. In such a scenario, the book takes the reader on a long journey, spanning half a century, igniting hope, towards a new dawn.”Įnter Stage Right: The Alkazi/Padamsee Family Memoir by Feisal Alkazi It is being brought out at a time the world is witnessing an earth-shattering experience, never witnessed before, of pandemics, environmental devastation and economic disaster. Dedicated to his late wife Anuradha, Ghandy said in a statement that his memoir was an effort to trace the couple’s striving “for a just and equal world.
In this book, slated to be published in April, Ghandy speaks for the first time of what drew him away from a life of ease and privilege to radical politics. One of the most anticipated memoirs of 2021 is this account by Marxist thinker and political activist Kobad Ghandy, released from prison last year after nearly a decade of incarceration.