WCL 32/2-3

West Coast Line 32/2-3 Fall / Winter 1998 Here and There Between South Asias: New Writing from Canada and India

Table of Contents

Ashok Mathur

Preface

Mahasweta Devi

An Outsider and an Insider at the Same Time

Sadhu Binning

Three Poems

Kavita Panjabi

Rani di

Shani Mootoo

The Predicament of Or

Chila Kumari Burman

Hard Times: Dad and Me in the Kitchen; Dad on Ship Coming to Britain

Ranjit Hoskote

A Sort of Archaeology and Six Poems

Roshini Kempadoo

A Bit of the Other

Arun Mukherjee

The Challenge of Reading Dalit Literature

Chittrovanu Mazumdar

Improvisations

Phinder Dulai

from "Ramu's Colonial Passage"

Swapan Chakravorty

If This Be the Last Song

Ven Begamudré

Benny Hits the Big Four-Oh, Or, Aren't You Rather Young to Be Writing Your Memoirs?

Kevin D'Souza

from "I am Doing Fine, Canada is Lovely"

Eugene Datta

Four Poems

Lakshmi Gill

But

Vasudha Joshi

For Maya (A Film)

Yasmin Ladha

And I Will Not Let You Down Like Heer

Karma Clarke-Davis

Corner Buddha-Karma, Om... The Walk of a Nomad

Rana Bose

Palti (From a Novel in Progress)

Shelly Bahl

Untitled

Uma Parameswaran

Two Elegies

Anandjit Ray

Visual Art

Rajinderpal S. Pal

Independence

Roshini Kempadoo

War of Position #4

Bhaswati Chakravorty

Five Minutes

Roshini Kempadoo

ECU: European Currency Unfolds

Ian Iqbal Rashid

The Memory of Fingertips

Chapal Bhaduri

Miracle at Midnight

Shamina Senaratne

Lalita's Lanka

Gulan Kripalani

"My Method of Film-making is a Diary Approach" - A Conversation with Anand Patwardhan

Himani Bannerji

The Colour of Freedom

Anjum Katyal

Four Poems

Shelly Bahl

Portrait of a Princess