CLRI March 2012

Contemporary Literary Review India March 2012
Editorial Mar 2012	People are Buying Shoes Online It is typical of human folk that we prepare our mind set in a certain way and that we refuse to jerk from such yoke easily whether the reason may be genuine. I recall a very apt remark about this behaviour by Dr Dalip K Khetrapal, a writer, during a discussion with him over telephone when he said, “Actually we refuse to grow, so we cannot grow.” >>> Read in Full
Poems	Towers by Bruce Louis Dodson 9/11 Here again and gone again  >>> Read in Full
	Daily Pilgrimage to Great Mother by Helen Estrada For some, it is the Nachi. Others, the Jordan, Ganges, Lourdes . . .  >>> Read in Full
	Two Poems by Jason Alan Wilkinson Wake me To A Circadian Rhythm  >>> Read in Full
	Satyagraha by Mark L.O. Kempf Gandhi turns his head to look past his inquisitors.  >>> Read in Full
	Two Poems by John Stock One day Alexandria  >>> Read in Full
Short Story	A Modern Princess by Anne Whitehouse Once upon a time a girl was born to a well-to-do family in a lush, tropical country. She was the eldest child and ardently desired. Her infancy did not cause any trouble; she slept, suckled, smiled, was alert and good-natured, and cried only when hungry or tired, but as she had a doting mother and a nurse who anticipated her needs, this rarely occurred. >>> Read in Full
Fiction & Art	The Floor Plan: A Fiction by Bharati Kapadia It started with a plan. A floor plan to be exact. Floor plan of my house based on the plan of a temple in India, or Bharat as it was known years ago. My name is Bharati, which is also one of the names of the goddess of learning and wisdom popularly as Saraswati.  >>> Read in Full
Arts	Ivan de Monbrison Two artistic works >>> See in Full
Criticsim	Criticsm by Khandakar Shahin Ahmed Identity and the Strategies of Bio-politics: A Reading of Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone.  >>> Read in Full
Book Review	Review on Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard by Aakanksha Singh Kiran Desai’s debut novel Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard, does not come close to her 2nd novel The Inheritance of Loss which won her the Booker Prize.  >>> Read in Full
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