The Road to Classic

The Road to Classic

PAPERWALL – the imprint dedicated to fiction and prose launched with the publishing of The Bombay Quartet,translated by Jayant Deshpande from the masterpiece originally written in Marathi by one of India’s finest poet,writer and translator- Dilip Chitre

River Wedding

River Wedding

Ma is afraid of water after dark.Nor the glass or jug, but the pumping stationAcross the street.Once she told me why.When she was five,Orunni, the village Huck Finn,Who ran after ghosts, and no book could catch up with her,Oruni told my Ma, google-eyed,Sompawati, the river behind their thatched houses,was getting married the next evening. All […]