Author Archives: secondsaturn

Bandicoots in the Moonlight. Avijit Ghosh. Penguin. Delhi. 2008. Bandicoots in the Moonlight is an autobiographical account of a young boy who has traversed a very long journey into his present state of settling down in his own flat in … Continue reading →

Avijit Ghosh’s book, Cinema Bhojpuri is a veritable encyclopedia of the Bhojpuri cinema. Bhojpur, signifying the large stretch of land covering Eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar along the banks of the Ganges has had a distinct past and … Continue reading →

The book, Solo, is divided into two parts called Life and Daydreaming respectively running us through the memories and image construction of a hundred year old Bulgarian who identifies himself with an old and dying parrot that must somehow cohere … Continue reading →

This month of July, we at our book reading club, composed of middle aged general interest women, attempted to read Orhan Pamuk’s novel, My Name Is Red. From the back cover it seemed to be a book of crime and … Continue reading →

 It has been an unusually rainy August in Delhi this year. We are not used to such heavy downpours in this part of Northern India. So the city along with its one crore population get non-plussed as rains get incessant … Continue reading →