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Mujib The Making Of A Nation movie review: There's no attempt at any complexity in this recounting, and there’s nothing that suggests reasons for the occasional prickliness between India and its neighbour. ....
The success of this anthology of 200 years of English essays from India is that it is for everyone Editor Arvind Krishna Mehrotra demonstrates his belief in the accessibility of prose. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, editor of the anthology. “The essay, like a penknife, can be put to many uses; like a newspaper aeroplane, it can fly and crash and fly again; as a literary genre, it is unfussy. An essay gathers no dust.” Unless you’re a literary buff who seeks out good non-fiction writing, especially essays, written by Indians, the chances of your having read something outside of your school and college syllabi (which somehow includes mostly British and American essay writers) are low. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, poet, writer, and critic puts it rather bluntly: “We’ve certainly not paid as much attention to the essay as we should have. Actually, there’s a lack of historicity in the way we think and talk and write about Indian literature.” ....