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Meena Kandaswamy’s Blog- Interview in Muse India — In Conversation with Rana Dasgupta January 2, 2010Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Presently, he lives in Delhi, India. His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), an examination of the forces and experiences of globalizat […]Meena Kandasamy
- Year-ending, on a beautiful note December 28, 2009Oh, I feel so humbled that my poetry does move people! Nandhini Parthib writes in The New Indian Express (Expresso, 17.12.2009) “Indian poems are vivid, realistic and lyrical with a regional cadence to it, but many of them were trying too hard to appeal to the academic intellect they failed to talk to the aesthetic mind. [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Why having a younger sister is a very, very attractive proposition December 27, 2009Because, no one else in the world will come up such a careless edition of the Guide to Living. Today she had to take an important examination in her life. And here are some wonderful words of wisdom: (In response to my amma asking her about how she has prepared for the exam): Well, there was [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Another Interview December 22, 2009(An edited version of this interview appeared in the Indian Express North American. Sujeet Rajan interviewed me for the weekly. This came out about a month ago, but only today I was suitably lazy to do this job) You write candidly of love and love-making; leaving windows open to the bedroom sometimes. If it is autobiographical, [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Book Review: Sam’s Story by Elmo Jayawardene October 30, 2009(First published in The New Indian Express, 02 August 2009.) Sam is poor, Sinhalese, and a servant in the Master’s River House. His only best friend is the owners’ dog Brutus. Sam is someone who can never figure out what a problem is, someone who doesn’t know why people cry. He has never learnt anything, not [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Books and Blogging: My Side of the Story October 16, 2009This presentation was made at the Panel Discussion on The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media, Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library as part of the 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium PLATFORMS FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARS. Professor Teresa Mangum at the Department of English, University of Iowa invited me to this, and [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Two links: an interview and an essay October 5, 2009Back from SFO, but I am not going to write anything here.. If I verbalize things too soon, I just guess it could end up being superficial… So, will instead just share two links (one is an interview, the other is a panel paper I read in Iowa).. This interview (by Dr.Ujjwal Jana appeared in Post-colonial [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Rough-cut schedule September 18, 2009This monday I got back from a helluva weekend at Pittsburgh (I was in about six events crammed into two and a half days) and I kept eating as if I was eating for a whole family. Like once every two hours. Here, in Iowa City, I starve most of the time. But compared to [...]Meena Kandasamy
- If you ever find me September 3, 2009saying the Pledge of Allegiance some day, you can be sure that it is because of the libraries here (at least the University of Iowa’s Main Library). I am allowed to check out 500 books. At once. Can it get any better? At all? God, I so love this place, this arrangement. [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Apologies, and Updates September 3, 2009I know, I know, I haven’t come this side in two months nearly…. And far worse, as if hiding away from the blog was not enough, I have not even replied many of your email messages properly.. I am trying hard to get through the email… so bear with me… If all goes well, all unreplied [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Interview in Muse India — In Conversation with Rana Dasgupta January 2, 2010
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