Archive for July, 2013

25
Jul

On the delay in justice for riot victims

   Posted by: aman    in Other

My piece in Tehelka on the delay in justice for riot victims in India with special focus on the Sajjan Kumar acquittal in the Delhi riots 1984. Please read …

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25
Jul

On the Punjabi language film Sadda Haq

   Posted by: aman    in Other

My piece in Tehelka on the controversy around the movie Sadda Haq and the ban on it by the Punjab government. Please read …

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25
Jul

Reviewing Uday Prakash’s Walls of Delhi in The Hindu

   Posted by: aman    in Other

Two reviews of mine on Uday Prakash’s Walls of Delhi appeared in The Hindu, online and print editions.

Online: please read …

Print and Onine: please read …

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It is an honour to get such a glowing review in The Book Review. Thank you Nishat.

‘As the writer grapples with emotions of anger, fear, pain, suffering, confusion, chaos, resistance and endurance, the novel moves from poignant to contrived, disturbing to formulaic, profound to crude, literary to raw, lyrical to macabre and real to phoney. In short it leaves the reader as enraged, confused and silenced as its narrator is, opening up, in turn, several interpretive possibilities. … he narrates his personal experience of a political event, without pontificating or taking sides. It is through his unsullied account of what he witnessed and endured that the writer seeks to remember his dismembered self. Writing, in this sense, is also a survival strategy for the writer …This safe haven is also the space where the ‘performative’ reality of the nation is preserved, unadulterated by ideological hues, a space which the readers like birds must turn to, to find a trace of their history and hence a space that allows the literary writer a serendipitous entry into the social, historical and political debates.’

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Daman is a friend and a fellow writer but I did not know she was reviewing Roll of Honour in Asian Age.

‘Roll of Honour is an important work for it sets out to explore dark spaces in time and place and forbidden recesses of the mind. … Written as a fictionalised memoir, Roll of Honour is completely credible. While it may not answer all the questions that it raises, it certainly forces the reader to face them. These questions are both personal and political. Amandeep Sandhu has a remarkable command over the art of personal narrative. He writes with startling honesty and with searing intensity.’

Please read

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