The Earthen Lamp Journal - Comfortably Numb

Comfortably Numb

Sheila Kumar's Storehouse

Book review: River of My Blood by Selina Hossain and Dangle by Sutapa Basu

Here are a couple of books that deal with the human condition, in times of the war without and the war within themselves. The jury may still be out regarding the real winners of the conflict but there can be no doubting the intensity of and the passion involved in the struggle, in both cases….

Book review: Asian Absences by Wolfgang Buscher

Some books have the reader hooked by the last line on the first page itself; others grow on the patient reader, gradually but rewardingly. Asian Absences falls between the two stools. The very first essay in this slim travelogue has to do with the journalist/writer/restless traveller Wolfgang Buscher traversing a corner of India, Rajasthan to…

Book review: Kalkatta by Kunal Basu

The city of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, is more than mere backdrop in Kunal Basu`s sixth work of fiction: it is a heaving, twisting, tortuous companion to the hero Jamshed Alam. In order to traverse his life, Jami has to first learn to traverse Kalkatta. The author presents the city in the most markedly…