Chronicle of a Sati Foretold: review of Sunny Singh, "With Krishna’s Eyes"
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ABSTRACT:
Book reviewed:
Sunny Singh, With Krishna's Eyes, New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2006, 293 pp., ISBN 81-291-0966-2
Extract:
Sunny Singh’s novel, "With Krishna’s Eyes", is a disturbing and eloquent
exploration of the dark side of "Shining India", in which the modern and globalised coexists
cheek-by-jowl with the archaic and traditional, in a contradiction seemingly without issue and
yet lived to the marrowbone by its intensely engaged characters. It confronts the vexed
question of Indian modernity head-on, by boldly centring its plot on so controversial an issue
as sati. In the process, it draws on the resources of Indian English and the Indian and non-
Indian literary heritage to offer the reader an exploration of fear, in a specifically
subcontinental context, that may justify its being taken as a highly original piece of what
might be called "Indian Gothic".
Full text of review is available on-line at the Yatra site (URL above).
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