Wake Up, India! Essays for Our Times (ebook)

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When a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry with six or seven books to his credit and a writer whose translations of an Urdu poet have been nominated for a Nobel who also has six or seven books to her credit get together and bring out a compilation of their essays on India in a post-modern, minimalist, aporia-ridden effort what will the result be? A delectable potpourri, a Cortazarian hopscotch, a collage, a montage, a bricolage, an assemblage of fragments 'shored against ruins' that is poetic in pieces, literary at times, critical, theoretical and surface-centred at others and sketchy too at places, definitely. Will this book be banned, burned, be controversial(ized) or silenced and marginalized for questioning concepts like nation, caste and religions, while also questioning Gandhiji, criticizing

Dr. A.V.Koshy, has six books to his credit, is a literary critic, poet, fiction writer, dramatist to be, social innovator, teacher, lover of life, and married, with 3 children. He is also an essayist, theoretician, researcher, freelance journalist, artist and editor (of Inklinks), who has published a book (Wrighteings: In Media Res with A.V.Verghese), articles, poems, research papers etc..He has won awards as a teacher and has a certificate from the world Bank for having done a course on social innovation. He and his wife Anna Gabriel run an NGO for autism.

Dr. Bina Biswas, a Professor of English, based in Hyderabad, is a translator, critic, poet, fiction writer and multilinguist par excellence, besides being a Tagore expert. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled "The Tale of the Missing Shoe and Other Stories" and the second, "Breeze in the Old Building and Other Stories" have been published in 2012. Her book "Tagore's Heroines: Portraits of Gender Orientation" and her poetry book "Forest Flowers" have been released in May 2013. Her translation of Mahesh Dattani's play "Final Solutions" into Bengali, Naseer Ahmad Nasir's poems into English from Urdu and the well-known Bangladeshi playwright Masum Reza Khan's play Araz Charitramala into English from Bengali (co-translator) will be published soon. She is also the co-author of the English translation of Michael Madhusudan Dutt's celebrated epic, Meghnad Vadh Kavya, in a mammoth work titled "An Epic on the Slaying of Meghnaad", to be published soon. She is presently working on a docufiction on the strife-torn Middle East vis-à-vis religions of the world.0