DharmaKuthanur

  • Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”: a Post-GenAI Story from the Pre-GenAI Era

    Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”: a Post-GenAI Story from the Pre-GenAI Era

    Author’s note: This is not a book review. It’s a retrospective look at the themes in the book in the post-GenAI context. Please be aware that this essay is filled with spoilers. My justification is that the book was published 4 years ago. Plus, like with all great literature, I do believe that the themes Read more

  • The Magic of Lijo Jose Pelissery’s “Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam”

    Author’s note: This essay about a movie is filled with spoilers. My rationale for this is the following: first, this movie was released a couple of years back; second, this is not a movie driven by a plot or storyline. Revealing the story doesn’t take much away from what it has to offer the viewer. Read more

  • “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese

    A Review “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese is a sprawling multi-generational story about a family of St.Thomas Christians (Christian converts whose lineage goes back all the way to the arrival of St.Thomas on India’s shores in AD 50) in south Kerala. The story spans the period from 1900 to 1977 seamlessly moving across Read more

  • Thoughts on Perumal Murugan

    Attempts to ban a book always backfire and end up making the writer and their works more popular. That’s certainly the case with Perumal Murugan, the brilliant Tamil writer whose books have only recently been translated into English, published in the West and as a result expanded his readership well beyond his devoted Tamil readership Read more