CLRI May 2013

Contemporary Literary Review India May 2013 CONTENTS
Poems
BHARAT TRIVEDI Night of Mortality DIVYA DAS Life KALPIT TANDON Drink Darkness KYLE HEMMINGS Kalifornia Interview with Blue Boy Moe Tucker Tales of Manhattan: Odd Balls Even RAAD ABD-AUN Life in Cities Life in Countryside DR. SANDEEP KUMAR We Poets Are Farmers Still TAHERA MANNAN The Tamrind's Call VINITA AGRAWAL New House Love Like His
Stories
CHANDRASHEKHAR SASTRY The Magic Bullet JOAO CERQUEIRA The Second Coming of Christ to Earth KIM FARLEIGH The Way of the World NEHA KIRPAL Random Encounter SANCHIT GUPTA The Golden Sedan
Criticism
JAYASHANKAR R The Death of Insularity: The Case of Mr. Stow’s Fiction and Postcolonial Cultural Contestation ANUPAMA CHOWDHURY Voicing the De-voiced: A Quest for Identity in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence DR. SHIV GOVIND PURI Race and Culture in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride
Book Reviews
DR. DALIP KHETARPAL’S FATHOMING INFINITY Book Review by Dr. G Iyyengar
Book Releases (Writers)
AJU MUKHOPADHYA BOB HARTLEY SONYA DUNKLEY ANUJ DHAR SANJAY KAK VEENA Y BHARGAVA KRISHNA MAINAK DHAR
CLRI Kick Starts for Lit Awards!
Contemporary Literary Review India (CLRI) is gearing up to nominate its writers published during last year to some literary awards and prizes. We will start with nominating our writers published with CLRI during July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013 to the Best of the Net run by the Sundress Publications, USA. Next we’ll move to Pushcart Award. For details, check at Announcement.
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CLRI 2013 Annual Print Edition ISSN  2250-3366
CLRI May 2013 issue brings to you a fine collection of POEMS by Bharat Trivedi, Divya Das, Kalpit Tandon, Kyle Hemmings, Raad Abd-Aun, Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Tahera Mannan, Vinita Agrawal; STORIES by Chandrashekhar Sastry, Joao Cerqueira, Kim Farleigh, Neha Kirpal, Sanchit Gupta; CRITICISM by Jayashankar R, Anupama Chowdhury, Dr. Shiv Govind Puri; BOOK REVIEWS by Dr. Khetarpal's Fathoming Infinity; and BOOK RELEASES from a variety of publishers and writers. We encourage all the readers to buy the print issue which will help you undertsand what standard we follow for the print edition. So you can submit your best pieces in future. Have a look at the preview of the print copy at: CLRI Annual 2013.