Segregation at All Costs: Bull Connor and the Civil Rights Movement

40 years of the Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize 2012

Do you know about the Man Booker Prize? Who was the Indian author on this year's shortlist?

THE SHORT LIST - so who won?
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies
Alison Moore, The Lighthouse
Will Self, Umbrella
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

Columbia Professor Gayatri Spivak on An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

 
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University and a trainer of elementary school teachers in West Bengal.
 Areas of Interest :

19th- and 20th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization

Biography:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, the highest honor given to a handful of professors across the university, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.  B.A. English (First Class Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959.  Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of London, 2003; D. Hum, Oberlin College, 2008. D. Honoris Causa, Universitat Roveri I Virgili,  2011, D. Honoris Causa, Rabindra Bharati, 2012. Kyoto Prize in Thought and Ethics, 2012.

Essentialism explained - contrasted with poststucturalism

How to write good essays: the art of "PEELING"

Life Of Pi - Should great books be adapted to film? As a rule one should read the book first.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate)
The story of Pi, an unusual boy brought up on a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to Canada, but when the ship taking them across the Pacific sinks Pi finds himself on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orang-utan, a zebra with a broken leg and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Somehow he must survive.
 http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2002/0,,777184,00.html

News about the world of books and publishing from India

http://bookwiseindia.blogspot.in/2011/09/hindi-is-going-places-literally.html

BOOKWISE 

News about the world of books and publishing from India

I found lots of interesting posts on this blog.

 

GANDHI JAYANTI

MARTIN LUTHER KING in his office and portrait of Gandhi on the wall.
http://www.mkgandhi.org/associates/martinluther.htm