Present Tense [Dec 31, 2004] GOKHALE NAMITA - Softcover

Present Tense: Living on the Edge is the culmination of the second annual Writers Retreat organized in Mussoorie and Labndour by Roli Books and Namita Gokhale. The participants were from a cross section of society two politcians, a Bollywood lady director and scriptwriter, a dream analyst, a famous general, a war reporter, a respected administrator, on emotive painter, a cartoonist, a historian, a sociologist, and several media persons. an anthology of essays, musigs, fictional speculation, and visual art, Present Tense attempts to understand, discuss, somethimes define the difficult times we inhabit. Present tense takes issues of ethnic identity, diversiveness, riots, hamara tumhara the insidious cycle of marginalization, alienation, anger and reprisal, beyond the sanitized constraints of media discourse into voices of real and visceral fears, of outrage, protest and of hope. About Author : Namita Gokhale is a novelist, columnist and literary critic. Her first novel Pro: Dreams of Pas