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তাঁর বই নিয়ে লিখতে বসে কেবলই আমার শঙ্কা হয় পাছে কী লিখতে কী লিখি। বোদলেয়ারের কথা ধার করে বলতে হয় 'সে আমার উজ্জ্বল উদ্ধার'- যদি সে ঔজ্জ্বল্য বিন্দুমাত্রও ....
While Justice Sleeps If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Who knew competence could be so electrifying? “I love Stacey Abrams because she gets things done,” a friend told me as I was preparing to write this article. Except she didn’t use the word “things.” For the record: 5:26 PM, May. 13, 2021An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Fair Fight directly registered voters it mobilized newly registered voters and mis-stated the last name of the protagonist of “While Justice Sleeps.” It is Keene, not Steele. ....
NOW Magazine 40 at 40: Shyam Selvadurai looks back at the queer novel that launched his career Nominated for a Canadian Screen Award this month for Funny Boy, the author discusses changes in Sri Lanka and identity politics’ second wave By Glenn Sumi Original photos by Rick McGinnis In September 1994, NOW put a young, unknown gay Sri-Lankan-Canadian novelist on the cover for his debut novel, Funny Boy. This month, Shyam Selvadurai – besides having several more acclaimed novels under his belt, including Cinnamon Gardens and The Hungry Ghosts – is nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for his adaptation of his first novel in Deepa Mehta’s film. (The film is currently streaming on CBC Gem.) ....
Photo: Vidur Bharatram As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa Mehta–directed feature film, Kamal Al-Solaylee reflects on the book that inspired it By Kamal Al-Solaylee Few books have cast as large a spell on the last two decades of my life as Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel Funny Boy has. I return to it, by choice or duty, roughly every four or five years. And with each rereading it illuminates not only parts of my personal history but Canada’s shifting literary landscape and the global, and ongoing, debate about the meanings of home, exile, and resettlement. Although it’s set in Selvadurai’s homeland of Sri Lanka, ....