Originally intended as a collection of my book reviews, this blog now contains a mix of book reviews and social and political commentary mostly on India.

is a writer and occasionally blogs here.

I have also translated most of the poems in the collection “To the Punjab of Farid” and Bhaswati and I helped to edit “Recovering the Lost Tongue” written by Rahul Banerjee. Both are available from amazon.com by following the links on the images below.

“To the Punjab of Farid and other poems” is available as a free e- book.

An unabridged version of “Recovering the Lost Tongue” is also available on-line.

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  1. 1 Kapil April 27, 2007 at 4:39 am

    Which script are you using for Recent Comments – can you please suggest.

  2. 2 readerswords April 30, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    Kapil: I am not too sure, I just use the default that comes with the wordpress template.

  3. 3 Canterbury Soul May 22, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    i hope you don’t mind that i’ve just tagged you. :)

  4. 4 readerswords May 22, 2007 at 11:57 pm

    Well, no, though I am surprised, haven’t been tagged ever before. Will try and continue the chain..

  5. 5 Suzanne Ruta November 11, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    Hi, just got your reference to the Maissa Bey essay I
    translated for World Lit. Today. Bey is NOT
    the daughter of Larbi Ben M’Hidi…the French tortured and
    summarily executed thousands of Algerian rebels, her
    father and Ben M’Hidi met the same fate, but M’Hidi was
    the head of the FLN in Algiers, Bey’s father was a school-
    teacher in el Boghari…I took a round about way into
    the subject, sorry if it wasn’t clear. Part I is about
    Algeria and the ways its history has been used lately
    by the Pentagon, part II is about Bey.

    Also the essay stands by itself, Bey hasnt written a
    book length memoir about her father, but she has written
    a number of novels, all marked by early trauma.

    glad to see people are reading WLT. best wishes, S Ruta
    Also your photo shows two authors I love, Bolano and
    Tomas Eloy Martinez…we seem to have the same tastes

  6. 6 readerswords November 11, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    Thanks for your comment and the correction, Suzanne. It seems that I have quite an imagination :-)

    Very honoured that we share the same interests. Thanks for visiting!

  7. 7 temporal January 23, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    a wonderful discovery

    (your blog)

    :)

  8. 8 readerswords January 24, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    thanks, temporal, glad to see you here!

  9. 9 Administrator January 29, 2008 at 3:47 am

    Thanks for visiting Karbi.wordpress.com
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  10. 10 tsaari February 14, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Bhupinder enjoying the “new” blog location and writings- good work!

    Salut- *tsaari

  11. 11 readerswords February 14, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Thanks, Tsaari, glad you liked some of the stuff here.

  12. 12 bhushan July 8, 2008 at 5:13 am

    my blog on Punjabi poet Paash at http://paash.wordpress.com contains links to his life and times, his poetry in different languages and critical appreciation of his poetry.

  13. 13 rw July 8, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    I am aware of your blog, bhushan, I guess via the link at ghazala. Keep up the good work!


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