Not only was Kiran Nagarkar an excellent novelist, he was also an astute critic-eclectic in taste and literary in perspective. Asides, Tirades and Meditations is a selection of writings that spans decades of his work and covers a range of themes that most preoccupied him: from Bollywood and cinema to Bombay's colonial and postcolonial histories; from commentary on Indian and international politics to world religions.
Nagarkar writes about other writers and books that influenced him and also provides deeply retrospective commentary on his own writing. Many of these themes can be further broken down to cover an evolving Bombay, questions of personal and collective memory, the role of the artist in today's world, and ruminations on culture, world history, and Nagarkar's own childhood, life and work.
Review
His writing was bawdy, irreverent and joyous, but it also held up a mirror to uncomfortable truths. - The New York Times
An unerring eye for detail, skilled in the use of words - India Today
[A] lively imagination like a force of light, touching now this problem, now that - Indian Express
One of world literature's great cult writers -- Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Book Description
Brilliant, witty and fearless essays of a pre-eminent novelist and critic
About the Author
Novelist, critic, playwright, Kiran Nagarkar wrote in both English and his mother tongue, Marathi. Amongst his notable works are Saat Sakkam Trechalis (tr. Seven Sixes Are Forty Three) (1974), Ravan and Eddie (1994) and Cuckold (1997), for which he was given the Sahitya Akademi Award.
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