Poems
By: Margaret Chatterjee
Publisher: Promilla & Co., Publishers, in association with Bibliophile South Asia
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9789380188072
Description: The author's wide-ranging interests are expressed in a new form in this book through an exchange of [fictional] letters between two friends. The reader encounters, inter alia, themes from literature, matters of urgent contemporary concern such as the fault lines in democracies, the extent of injustice, the onus of responsibility, the role of intellectuals, the experience of migrants, the position of women, the continuing challenge of Gandhi's life and thought. The gravity of the contemporary situation both in India and elsewhere is not underestimated nor are the horrific crimes perpetrated in the twentieth century forgotten. The presenting of alter-native standpoints in friends' letters stimulates positive transformations of attitude and hopes for a more peaceful world.--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Poems.