Fave Five: Adult Fiction Set in the 1980s

Fave Five: Adult Fiction Set in the 1980s

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (NYC) Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski (Poland) No Other World by Rahul Mehta (US, India) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (London) Jobs for Girls With Artistic Flair by June Gervais (Long Island)

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Earth (1998), dir. Deepa Mehta

Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)

My rating: 3/10

It will never cease to amaze and frustrate me just how bad romantic comedy, as a genre, tends to be at depicting either of what one would expect to be its main components. This is pure tedium.

What else but a paranoid system would target small think tanks or civil society organisations that do social service? What else but a paranoid system would appear to politically orchestrate a disqualification of an opposition MP? And this paranoia will make the prospect of even risking a fair electoral contest from now on a non-starter. Paranoia is the seed of all repression and we are now seeing it in full measure.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, 'No reaction', Indian Express

Dua Karo song is sung by Stebin Ben. Dua Karo lyrics of the song were written by Kumaar and composed by Siddharth Kashyap.

Recent books, fiction -

Shola von Reinhold, LOTE - essentially a black queer modernist Possession; I enjoyed it quite a lot. Mathilda, an erstwhile archivist and self-described "Arcadian" devotee of stylish queer figures from the early twentieth century follows the trail of a forgotten black woman modernist writer. I loved Mathilda as a narrator, her unapologetically sensuous engagement with the figures she studies and her embrace of pleasure and style and decadence as sites of both joy and resistance. Like Possession, this includes some razor-sharp and very funny parody of contemporary academic and artistic circles, this time directed mostly towards nihilistic post-modernists; von Reinhold's gaze is very clear on the actual costs of this kind of fantasized negation of the self. I found myself wanting a little more out of the ending in some ways, but over all I loved and definitely recommend this.

Rahul Mehta, Quarantine - [despite our current associations with the title, this book came out in 2011 and is not related to plague or pandemics at all] collection of short stories largely about young gay Indian-American men struggling with various types of feelings of disconnection. Elegantly written and engaging, but sometimes overly detached and repetitive. I would read more by this author.

Rainbow Rowell, Carry On - I think I read this because Jo Walton recommended it on Tor and I hadn't read anything by this author? Anyway, I shouldn't have. The novel is a tepid Harry Potter parody that ends up amounting to bad Harry/Draco fic in which Draco is a vampire. It was stupid and badly written, and I don't care nearly enough about Harry Potter from any angle to be interested. Not recommended, and I will not be trying anything else by this author.

Darry Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine - this is now the third book I have read which takes as its premise survivors of horror movie scenarios coming together in some way (the others were Riley Sager's Final Girls, which I didn't like much, and Grady Hendrix' The Final Girl Support Group, which I had a lot of fun with). I found this one quite moving, though limited by being a novella - there were a lot of problems, especially with the denouement, that I think could have been easily solved in a longer book. Gregory's wife is a therapist (he thanks her in the acknowledgements), and so the therapy group in which all the characters meet is written a lot more believably than most group therapy in fiction (though I would make some different choices than the facilitator!). I was quite moved by the thread throughout many of the characters' stories about their own ambiguous relationship to their various victimizations, the parts of the experiences they long for or miss, the unresolved questions about meaning-making. Some of the characters came off as more full people than others, which I put down to limited space; likewise, there's a (heavily foreshadowed) reveal at the end about the identity of the therapist which I thought could have worked but as it was felt rushed, particularly given the attention to therapeutic ethics earlier in the book. Recommended, though not for everyone.

Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground - posthumously published novella expanding on a previously published short story of Wright's, which I have not read. A black man in Chicago is tortured while under arrest for a crime he did not commit; he subsequently flees into the city sewers, where he undergoes an existential shift in the experience of being proximate to but apart from human society. This was beautifully, vividly written; the sections describing our protagonist's solo journey through the sewers and the way he makes sense of what he hears and witnesses from the lives of the people around him will stay with me a long time. The novella is published with an autobiographical essay from Wright about his grandmother's religiosity, which inspired him to write the book; this essay was interesting in itself, but I felt that the novella stood well without it.

Emily Carroll, Through the Woods - collection of graphic gothic horror short stories (graphic like graphic novel, not graphic like explicit - unwieldy turn-of-phrase). Carroll's art is gorgeous, and I enjoyed it a lot despite graphic fiction not working well for me. The stories themselves are slight and often could use more development and explication, but I am still glad I read this. Very good to read on a rainy autumnal day with some tea, which is what I did.

Gaile Parkin, Baking Cakes in Kigali - Angel, a middle-aged Tanzanian cake baker now living and working in Kigali, Rwanda, runs her business while trying to be a decent person and support those in the community around her. This was a beautifully gentle, optimistic novel that held a lot of space for the complexity of Angel's social world and treats the moral choices she has to make her day-to-day life as worthy of serious consideration (her musings about under what circumstances she would take a moral stand of refusing to serve a customer was a good example). At some points throughout the book I was worried it would land too shallowly on serious topics, but it came through and won me over. And I loved hearing about how Angel sold her cakes.

Caroline McKenzie, A Year of Ugly - a family of undocumented Venezuelan immigrants living in Trinidad deal with a madcap series of adventures with blackmailers while a romance plot line happens in the foreground. I didn't like this; its humor felt cruel to me, and the tone in sections about sex work or the female characters' sexuality felt very sour. McKenzie has an author's note about she was trying to write about serious experiences of her community in a more light-hearted way, but the contrast with Baking Cakes in Kigali, which ostensibly had the same aim but handled it with gentleness and humanity, was stark. Not recommended.

V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic - yes, I'd never read it before! It was at the library, and I thought it was finally time. It's a fascinating book - the use of detail which at once feels fetishistic while also reminding me of older children's novels (compare the Dollanganger children cleaning up the attic with the protagonists of The Boxcar Children in their titular makeshift home); the contained extremity of the gothic melodrama; the fantasmatic alternation of confinement and expansiveness in the use of space. I wouldn't say it's good, exactly, but I'm glad I read it. Probably won't read the sequels, but will be thinking about it for a long time.

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Misha Japanwala is reclaiming the meaning of shame by Sarah Moroz i-D June 2023

Fashion’s Indian summer: Designers take the global stage by Sujata Assomull Vogue Business June 2023

Rahul Mishra: Fall 2023 Couture by Tiziana Cardini Vogue Runway July 2023

Rahul Mishra’s Ethos Is ‘Slow Fashion’ by Sadiba Hasan The New York Times June 2023

A Life Spent Documenting the Gritty, Urban Underside of Tokyo by Holly Black AnOther Magazine March 2018

The Pakistani Male: Mama's Boy? by Rehana Hakim Herald February 1981

Fair and Lovely by Annie Ali Khan Marie Claire November 2012

Make a Spectacle, Will You? by Marlowe Granados From the Desk of Marlowe Granados June 2023

Alexa Chung: What Jane Birkin and Her Style Meant to Me by Alexa Chung Financial Times July 2023

How Cartier Built an Empire by Claiming Indian and Islamic Art as Its Own by Sneha Mehta The Juggernaut March 2022

JJ Crowns Selected Majestic Writing Personality For Pencraft Legends Writing Contest - 2024

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Now In this “Pencraft Legends Writing Contest - 2024” We Selected Best 3 Winners (1st Winner :- Meghaa Mundhra, 2nd Winner :- Syeda Sarah Irram, 3rd Winner :- Anupama Rathi) and the result decided by our great judge Mr. Sharad SP Jain Sir. And in this competition, it’s not about winning or losing. What truly matters is the effort and dedication of all the Participants that they put into it.

To all the writers who have given their valuable time to share some touch of innovation through writing and enhance the beauty of this virtual Awardees show, JJ Crowns team has promoted all of them, hoping for their continued improvement.

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Jahaan Vasaya, Mehwish Aijaz, Deepayan Choudhury, Aparna J, Kushagra Singhal, Fiza, Jenica Amalita, Anupama Rathi, Pratyanshu Mohanty, Chandramani Mehta, Rashika Garg, Bindu Unnikhrishnan, Syeda Sarah Irram, Dipti Wale, Saloni Nalwaya, Harshitha Pandi, Muqadas Ishrat, Karishma Vig, Ruma Chakraborty, Nandhini R, Sai Roshni, Vinay Chandra, Dhanyakasthuri, Sharda Kanoria, Karishma, Dr. Tripat Mehta, Rahul Rathor, Shreya Sinha, Tanaya Bondre, Vrunda Baraiya, Sandhya Kumari, Dr. Megha Agrawal, Plabi Pradhan, Eswari Indrani, कर्णिका विवेक वर्मा, Avinash Sarjerao Kamble, Ruth Gangmei, Shailaja Pindi Sharma, Gayathri M, Kavita Sangras K, Saima, Shinjini Banerjee, Dr.Sumit Singh, Dipti Wale, Kanta Roy, Dr. Merlin Dorcus J, Yogita, Yamini Matkar, काजल कुमारी (पटना बिहार), Jatin Singh, रिषभ सागर वड़ोदरा, गुजरात , Swati Bhargava, Ruchita Parkhi, निकेता पाहुजा, Renosha A, Meghaa Mundhra, Jatin, Divya Dundasi, Remmy The Ooge.

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Earth (1998), dir. Deepa Mehta

15th edition of UDRI’s publication Mumbai Reader 22|23 - Civil Society and the City captures 24 original stories of civic action that have shaped your city. This reader is a chronicle of people’s journeys, their learnings and their impact across key urban themes woven together vividly from the threads of activism, history, and artistic expression. With the following contributions:

■ A Timeline of Mumbai’s Development and Civic Action compiled by UDRI ■ Civic Action Groups in Mumbai by V. Ranganathan ■ The Early Years of New Bombay by Shirish B Patel ■ Shyam Chainani: A Journey from Advocacy to Institutional Impact compiled by Anuradha Parmar and Elaine Agith ■ The Urban Transformer – A Brief History of The Urban Design Research Institute based on an interview with Rahul Mehrotra ■ The Story of the Kala Ghoda Arts District, Kala Ghoda Association and Kala Ghoda Arts Festival based on an interview with Rahul Mehrotra and Brinda Miller ■ Timeline of Mumbai Textile Mill Redevelopment and Recycling Urban Land by Charles Correa, Edited by Darryl D’ Monte ■ Bombay Imagined – An Illustrated History of the Unbuilt City by Robert Stephens ■ Nivara Hakk Then and Now: The Struggle for Housing Rights by Gurbir Singh ■ Restoring Mumbai’s Open Spaces based on an interview with P K Das ■ The Creation of SPARC and its Foundational Strategy Formations by Sheela Patel ■ A Glimpse of NPCCA’s Journey in Reclaiming Public Spaces by Atul Kumar and Swarn Kohli ■ Citizens Can Make Transformational Changes in Their Surrounds by Shirin Bharucha and Nayana Kathpalia ■ The Story of NAGAR by Nayana Kathpalia and Meher Rafaat ■ Saving Mumbai’s Sole Heritage Botanical Garden: The Struggle of the Save Rani Bagh Botanical Garden Foundation by Hutokshi Rustomfram and Shubhada Nikharge ■ The Story of AGNI: Cyrus Guzder in conversation with D. M. Sukthankar ■ Towards an Empowered and Accountable Local Governance by Nitai Mehta, Sumangali Gada and Anuj Bhagwati ■ The Story of Civis by Antaraa Vasudev and Divya Pinge Civic Action to Protect Mangroves at the Turn of the Century by Rishi Aggarwal ■ Beyond the Silent Struggles: The Story of Awaaz Foundation by Sumaira Abdulali ■ For the Right to Water by Sitaram Shelar ■ Save Aarey, Save Mumbai by Stalin Dayanand ■ Narratives from the Bandra Collective by Sameep Padora, Samir D‘Monte, Pronit Nath, Robert Verrijt and Zameer Shakir Basrai ■ Space and Hip-hop: The Birth and Evolution of Mumbai’s Underground Music Scene by Arushi Khare based on an interview with Tushar Adhav and Ashwini Hiremath ■ Fisherfolk Resistance to the Coastal Road: The Arenas of Struggle by Shweta Wagh ■ From Up There They Were Just Numbers by Amrita Gupta, Anuradha Pathak, Anant Jain and Kush Badhwar

Best Skin Specialist, Dermatologists In Malviya Nagar, Jaipur

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Unlocking Radiant Skin: Top Dermatologists in Malviya Nagar, Jaipur

Your skin is more than just a superficial layer; it's a reflection of your inner health and well-being. In a city like Jaipur, where the sun's warm embrace is a daily companion, caring for your skin becomes paramount. Fortunately, Malviya Nagar hosts a cadre of skilled dermatologists who specialize in nurturing and revitalizing your skin.

Whether you’re battling acne, looking to reverse signs of aging, or seeking advice for a specific skin condition, these dermatologists stand out for their expertise, professionalism, and commitment to skin health.

Dr. Anita Vijay

Dr. Anita Vijay is a renowned name in dermatology, known for her holistic approach to skincare. Her clinic in Malviya Nagar is a hub for personalized skincare solutions. From acne management to advanced anti-aging treatments, Dr. Anita Vijay expertise combined with her compassionate care ensures her patients feel confident and cared for.

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Dr. Vikram Shah

With years of experience in dermatology, Dr. Vikram Shah has established himself as a go-to expert for a wide array of skin concerns. His practice in Malviya Nagar is celebrated for its comprehensive treatments that blend modern techniques with a deep understanding of skin health.

Dr. Pooja Sharma

Dr. Pooja Sharma is applauded for her dedication to achieving healthy, glowing skin for her patients. Her clinic in Malviya Nagar offers a spectrum of services, ranging from routine skincare to specialized treatments, all delivered with a focus on patient comfort and satisfaction.

Dr. Rahul Mehta

Dr. Rahul Mehta's commitment to dermatology and his patients shines through in his clinic in Malviya Nagar. His expertise covers a broad spectrum of dermatological issues, and his approachability makes him a favorite among locals seeking reliable skincare guidance.

Dr. Sneha Gupta

Dr. Sneha Gupta's clinic in Malviya Nagar is a haven for those seeking personalized skincare solutions. Her blend of expertise and empathy ensures that each patient receives tailored treatments designed to address their unique skin needs.

Conclusion :

Choosing the right Best Skin Specialist In Jaipur is an essential step towards achieving healthy and glowing skin. It's advisable to schedule consultations with a few specialists to find the one whose approach resonates best with your skincare goals and preferences.

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"Unleashing the Fusion of Power and Creativity: Reliance X Rahul Mishra's Showstopping Collaboration at PFW"

RBL, a subsidiary of Reliance Ventures Ltd, was established in 2007 with the purpose of introducing and developing global luxury and premium brands in the fashion and lifestyle sectors. Leading the company’s successful mergers is Mr. Darshan Mehta, the President and Managing Director. He has been instrumental in orchestrating well-organized and strategically calculated collaborations. Under Mr.…

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"Unleashing the Fusion of Power and Creativity: Reliance X Rahul Mishra's Showstopping Collaboration at PFW"

RBL, a subsidiary of Reliance Ventures Ltd, was established in 2007 with the purpose of introducing and developing global luxury and premium brands in the fashion and lifestyle sectors. Leading the company’s successful mergers is Mr. Darshan Mehta, the President and Managing Director. He has been instrumental in orchestrating well-organized and strategically calculated collaborations. Under Mr.…

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