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Kunapipi

Volume 19 Issue 3 Article 2

1997

Kunapipi 19(3) Contents

Anna Rutherford

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~U!liJM (I?IUO(O:)-!SOd JO (I?UJOO( ldldVND>I Kunapipi is a tri-annual arts magazine with special but not exclusive emphasis on the new literaturel> written in English. lt aims to fulfil the requirements 1 .S. l:.liot believed a journal should have: to introtiucc the work of new or little known writers of talent, to provide critical eval­ uation of the work of living authors, both famous and unknown, and to be truly international. It publishes creative material and crihetsm. Articles and reviews on related historical and sociological topics plu~ film will also be included as well as graphics and photographs. The editor invites creative and scholarly contributions. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with footnotes gathered at the end, should conform to the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Style Sheet. Wherever possible the submission should be on disc (soft-ware preferably Word for Windows, Wordperfect or Macwrite saved for PC on PC formatted disc) and should be accompanied by a hard copy, please include a short biography, address and email contact if available. All correspondence - manuscripts, books for review, enquiries - should be sent to:

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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 3, 1997

Editor-in-Chief ANNA RUTHERFORD

Guest Editor SHIRLEY CHEW

Editorial Advisors DIANA BRYDON, KEE THUAN CHYE, ANNE COLLI::Tf, MARGARET DAYMOND, ERNEST K. EMENYONU, HfLEN GILBERT, GARETH GRIFFITHS, ALAMGIR HASHMI, ARITHA VAN HJ::RK, ALAN LAWSON, RUSSELL McDOUGALL, HENA MAI:S­ JEUNEK, GANESH MISHRA, ALASTAIR NIVEN, KIRSTEN HOLST PETERSEN, BRUCE CLUNIES ROSS, PAUL SHARRAD, KIRPAL S1NGJ l, HELEN TIFFIN, GERRY TURCOTTE, JAMES WII:.LAND, RAJIVA WIJESINHA, MARK WILLIAMS, R. ZHUWARARA.

Marketing SUSAN BURNS

Production GLENDA PATTl:.NDE:.N Acknowledgements

Kunapipi is published with assistance from the European branch of Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studtes, Faculty of Arts and the Centre for Research in Textual and Studies (CRITACS) at the University of Wollongong, and the Council of England.

We wish to thank all contributors to this journal and also to acknowledge writers and publishers perm1ss1on to reprint extracts from the followmg San1ukta Dasgupta, 'To Avanllsundari', 'Trapped', 'Red Ants' from ::.n.oroS111081tl (Calcutta: Writers Workshop). Shama Futehally, 'Photographs' was The Book Review (New Delhi), vol. 17, no. 5, 1997. Githa Hariharan, Deep, Deep Well', 'The Sting in the Scorpion's Tail' are excerpted from The r.-, •..-­ of Vasu Master (New Delh~: Vikin~ 1994), pp. 235-48. N.P. Mohamed, lhe Eye of God (Macmillan India: Chennai, 1997) a volume in the Modem Novels in Translation Series, trans. by Gita Krishnankutty from Malayalam. A4~• 11• Sidhwa, excerpt from An American Brat (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions). Shash1 Deshpande, a vers1on of whose essay was delivered as a Plenary Lecture at IACLALS annual conference, 'Text and Culture', llyderabad, 23-25 janu.uy, 1997

Front cover: 'Mughal' 1996, by Sarbjit Natt (born 1962) Textile dyes and pigments on silk (168.5x110 em) Back cover: Foreground: 'Turning the World Inside Out' 1997, by Amsh Kapoor Stamless steel (148x184x188 em) Funded from the proceeds of the National Lottery through the England Back cover: Background: 'Humamty Overcommg War' 1925, by Francis Derwent Wood. Serravezza Marble (2.9x2. lx1.4 m) All from the collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums. hnally we would like to thank Sarah Graves for all her help with the rna We have done our best to ensure that we have mduded all the people publishers who should be thanked. If we have inadvertently left anyone out wt apologize.

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CTION '5uniti NamjoshJ~ 'The Message, the Medium and the Missionary' 14 ~adat Ha.o;an Manto, 'It Happened in 1919' 16 TRANS . ALOK BHALLA ~ahasweta Dev1~ 'From Sati' 43 · TRANS. RANJANA ASH !Aamer Hussein 'Sweet Rice' 51 tshama Futehally, 'Photographs' 59 Cithaf Hariharan 'From The Ghosts of Vasu Master ' 75 'W.P. Mohamed, 'From The Eye of God' 94 TRANS. Gn A KRISHNANKUT! Y ~Nirmal Verma, 'Terminal' 99 !•TRANS. ALOK BHALLA ~psi Sidhwa, 'From An American Brat' 128 r;,eelum Saran Gour, 'Song Without End' 134 f}iukhsana Ahmad, 'After Life' 166 roETRY faiz Ahmed Faiz, 'The Dawn of Freedom' (Pakistan 1947) 1 t TRANS. SIIOAIB I lAS! !MI ~njukta Dasgupta, 'To Avanhsundari' 40 ' 'Trapped' 40 "Red Ants' 41 ·•Sometimes' 42 shna Bose, 'Donation' 83 ~Hymn to the Goddess' 84 'fRANS. SANJUKTA DASGUPTA taki Kushari Dyson, 'Short Story' 108 'Historical' 109 TRANS. SANJUKIA DASGUPTA P!'Jata Bhatt, 'Squirrels' 139 'Meeting the Artist in Durban' 141 fshwar Naheed, 'The Palace of Wax' 153 rtJte Land of the Burning Sun' 154 nlte Prayer of the Unborn' 155 iJRANS . SIIOAIB HASIIMI

itav Ghosh, 'The March of the Novel through llistory: IJhe Tt!stimony of my Grandfather's Bookcase' 2 Alok Bhalla, 'Dance of Grotesque Masks: A Critical Reading of Manto's"1919 Ke Ek Baat'" 22 Shashi Deshpande, 'Where do we belong? The "Problem" of English in India' 65 Sujit Mukherjee, 'Transcreating Translation: An Indian Mode' 85 Tejaswini Niranjana & S. V Srinivas, 'Managing the Crisis: Bharateeyudu and the Ambivalence of being "Indian'" 111

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Sahma Ha shmi, 'Ramblings of a Painter' 142 Nima Poovaya-Smith, 'Confessions of an Indolent Curator' 148 Baama, 'From Karukku, the autobiography of a Tamil Dalit woman' 157 TRANS. LAKSIIMI I IO LMSTRO M

INTERVIEWS 'Amitav Ghosh in interview with Neluka Silva and Alex Tickell' 171 'Arundhati Roy in interview with Linden Thornton' 178

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 181