Rosalia Scalia, who is writing her novel on 1984 and has already written a number of excellent short stories around Sikh and other themes, interviews me for the Sikh Canadian website Sikhchic.com. Read here.
Archive for the ‘Roll of Honour’ Category
Sikhchic.com, a news central, the Sikh Canadian website run by T Sher Singh reviews Roll of Honour. Read here.
Here is talk about Roll of Honour in Polish. Megi and Patryk are in India these days and blog about their experiences and cooking experiments. Honoured that they chose to talk about the book. (If you use Chrome you can see a broken translation into English when you click the button on top of the browser that asks ‘Translate?’) Thank you Patryk and Megi, read on.
I met Saumya at the reading at Jamia Milia Islamia. All the students, the youth, were so smart and engaging and knew much more than I did when I was their age, in a similar course. I am glad they are reading Roll of Honour. Saumya went ahead and reviewed the book, read on.
Shri Rajesh Sharma teaches English at Punjabi University, Patiala. He had read Sepia Leaves last year and expressed the desire to follow my writing. Here are his views, read on.
Veeresh Malik is an ex-shippie, he writes not with ink but with the sweat of a salior. Read on.
‘We write to heal, the healing process never started in Punjab.’ Read on here.
Every writer seeks one review/response that validates the work back to the writer. D P Satish brought the book home to me.
‘Roll of Honour’ is an evocative novel. You keep thinking about it even days after you have finished reading it. … Sandhu tells this story lucidly. He draws no conclusions, gives no sermons and offers no solutions. He refrains from turning the story into a tearjerker.’
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Anuradha Goyal was herself growing up in Punjab in the 80s. In her review she says:
She says: ‘Author beautifully brings out the impact of external and internal violence in the life of a teenager in mid 1980s. It is an important piece of literature for a turbulent phase of Punjab written with an intensity that takes you back to the time.’
Please read her review.
A short review by Manjula Narayan in the Hindustan Times today (the third entry on the page):
‘Some of the scenes, especially those that deal with the depravity of school boys and their savagery are at once shocking and absorbing. Roll of Honour places much of its action in a particularly bloody time in the nation’s recent history – one that’s been largely ignored in Indian English fiction until now. This novel is doubly powerful as a result.’
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