‘There is a way to be good again’ wrote Khaled Hosseini, the resounding refrain that gently suggests redemption, in the Kite Runner. Redemption, he has no need of, as thousands of readers will agree, but he sure has lived up to that statement with his second novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. Is it good? [...]

Pesum Porchithiram
Essays in Tamil on cinema by Amshan Kumar
Published by Kalachuvadu pathippagam, 669, K.P.Road, Nagercoil—629 001
Serious Tamil writing of this kind on cinema is rather rare. It is not even half a century since this trend began. In fact a standard book in Film Appreciation `Cinema Rasanai` brought out by Amshan Kumar only [...]