My name is Pallavi and I’m a twenty-something reader and lover of books who keeps moving homes, bookshelves and sometimes countries. My particular interests are science fiction, fantasy, magical realism (specifically Latin American), weird fiction, surrealism and experimental writing. I am optimistic that there are Indian writers attempting all of the above with lesser known languages, publishers and translators, and I hope to find as many of them as possible.
I currently live and teach in a small university town in Karnataka, India. I keep this blog mainly for ramblings and rants on books and literature, and occasionally other observations.
And I’m an aspiring academic, who hopes to see her re-entry into university and research in 2012.
You can write to me at pallavi (dot) inabrownstudy (at) gmail (dot) com for any personal feedback. Otherwise, feel free to comment on any of my posts.
i am waiting for your review of charu nivedita’s zero degree.
Charu best novelist in indian literature.. still not yet noticed by many.. hope this will be good starting…
thanks for your excellent review…
Great review!!!
The Tamil version of Zero Degree is much better than the translated one, I think. And the poems towards the end are more fervent and heartwarming in the original.
Thanks so much for bringing out a great,admirable writer of our times–an adjective which many people in TN may not take kindly to…:)
Charu, news reaches you very quickly! I’m glad if you think I did it justice, so thank you.
Thanks, Gayathri, yes, I’ve heard many more good things about the original; someday I do hope to attempt it.
thanks for your excellent review
from
Partha
Chennai
You’re amazing Pallavi…looking forward to your reviews…(I thought you’d get much more hate mails for reviewing ZD…:)
Aw, now there’s a comment to make my day. Thanks, Gayathri.
And yes, I’m surprised a little too that hate mail hasn’t really come my way, but it may just be because not too many people read me. Seeing the positive side here.