The Sunday Guardian | Artbeat

The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

... Ashk's short stories in Daisy Rockwell's impeccable translation. 'The Dal Eaters' is about North Indian tourists in Kashmir. Early on, two little girls on a bus from Pathankot to Srinagar "shriek" and ...

The Sunday Guardian | Artbeat

Between fact and fiction: Amitava Kumar & the hunt for the real Patna

... a characteristically astute article on the book, Daisy Rockwell wrote what a lot of readers (especially Hindi-speaking readers such as myself) had felt so strongly. "Home Products feels like a Hindi novel. ...

The Sunday Guardian | Bookbeat

Rockwell revisits a prolific raconteur’s notebooks

... doesn't know where to start (and perhaps is a little unconfident about his or her reading speed). Daisy Rockwell's fantastic translations of sixteen of his stories in the volume titled Hats and Doctors ...

The Sunday Guardian | Artbeat

The Alphabet of Interpretation

... reading speed. Says writer and painter Daisy Rockwell, who wrote a book on 20th Century Hindi poet Upendranath Ashk, "There are two approaches to translating literature in Indian languages: one attempts ...

The Sunday Guardian | Bookbeat

Terror trail comes alive in a vivid ‘riot of colours’

As an artist, and one of a family of artists, Daisy Rockwell understands how crucial images are to the way we understand things. Her grandfather Norman Rockwell was responsible in his day for some truly ...

The Sunday Guardian | Artbeat

The Earnest Orientalist

A number of years ago, in an attempt to understand why some people took political and religious offense to pieces of art, I designed and taught a course in South Asian literature called Art that Offends. ...

The Sunday Guardian | Artbeat

Failures of Imagination

Early in the morning on September 11, 2001, I spoke on the phone with a student of mine. After briefly discussing the attacks on the World Trade Center, which had just occurred, he asked, half joking, ...

The Sunday Guardian | Technologic

Informed commentary on the South Asian belt

... It's not only the content but also Daisy Rockwell's illustrations that give the blog its cool quotient. Rockwell, with a Ph.D in South Asian literature, creates illustrations that blend photomontage and ...

The Sunday Guardian | Artbeat

Bombs, Bullets & Burqas

Last summer, at the local farmers' market, I was surprised and pleased to see a stand advertising "Pakistani Food." Who would expect such an offering in a small New England town? But when I approached ...

The Sunday Guardian | Home

The Forgotten Masterpiece

I read War and Peace a number of years ago in Allahabad, India, in March or April, when the temperatures begin to soar. Our rooftop apartment, so delightfully airy during other months, slowly transformed ...