Bruised Memories

Communal Violence and the Writer

Tarun K. Saint

 

6.5 x 9.75 inches, xiv +193pp. 2002

ISBN : 9788170461906

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This unusual volume explores India's history of recurring communal violence through the feelings and emotions, both of creative persons—writers, poets, artists—and of those who comment on society and politics. Poems, short stories, memoirs, and essays together probe how it feels when violence erupts, turning neighbours into enemies and home into an alien land.

 

Contributors include Amitav Ghosh, Amlan Das Gupta, Anjan Sen, Ashish Nandy, Badiuzzaman, Bhisham Sahni, Bilquis Zafirul Hasan, D. R. Nagaraj, Deeba Zafir, Dilip Jhaveri, Dilip Simeon, Harish Trivedi, Husain-ul-Haq, K. Satchidanandan, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Mahasweta Devi, M. K. R. Nair, M. V. Narayan, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Naghma Zafir, Ranjit Hoskote.

Tarun K. Saint

 

Literature
Culture Studies