The book is out!

The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories, by Subimal Misra, translated by V Ramaswamy, Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers India, 2010. Price: Rs 199.

The collection includes fifteen stories, written by Subimal Misra during 1968-73, a turbulent period in the history of Calcutta and West Bengal.

Review in New Indian Express, Chennai.

Review in The Statesman, Calcutta

Review in The Telegraph, Calcutta.

Review in Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Mumbai.

2nd review in Afternoon Despatch & Courier.

Review in Times of India.

Review in the blog Jabberwock.

Review in the blog Writers Read.

Review in the e-zine Muse India.

Review by a blogger.

Review in The Book Review.

Subimal Misra interview in Tehelka.

Arunava Sinha's comment.

My deepest thanks to everyone who made this book possible.

The book can be purchased online and from leading bookshops in the metro cities (of India).

The project to translate the short fiction of Subimal Misra continues.

Spivak lecture in Calcutta

Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, will deliver the Fifth Dilip Kumar Roy Memorial Lecture in Calcutta, titled "To Construct a Personal Past: Pages from a Memoir".

Date: Friday, 9 July 2010
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, 3 Regent Park (near Ranikuthi), Tollygunge, Calcutta 700040

The programme is organised by Hari Krishna Mandir Trust, Pune and Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, Calcutta.