Dryad Press publisher (and co-founder of The Writer’s Center) Merrill Leffler talks with Ken Langer, author of A Nest for Lalita.
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When I lived in Varanasi as a college student, I took tabla lessons from the late Kedar Nath Bhowmick, a professor of mathematics at Benares Hindu University. Here he is, on the left, in 1970. The other photo is me last February when I visited his home 50 years later, only to find out […]
This essay appeared in the Vineyard Gazette, July 6, 2017 On April 22, more than a million citizens marched in 600 cities across the United States and abroad in support of science — an impressive turnout. But if we are to defend the role of science in public policy, we must do more than march […]
Nayantara Sahgal has written another gem of a book. The author has captured the horror of our times in a story where ordinary people become victims of nationalist fervor. I only wish she had spent more time in the heads of the main characters as they undergo and are forced to live with the aftermath […]
I am in total agreement with the Ron Charles’ review (Washington Post). Sometimes I wonder if Rushdie isn’t terribly insecure, since he seems to be on an eternal quest to impress his readers with his wit. He seems to be too clever by half. Unfortunately, this cleverness comes at the expense of emotional substance. I […]