![]() It was humid, but the strong sea breeze helped in keeping the cool. The Cliffhangers, By Sabin Iqbal Aleph pp.174 Rs 499.Īt the MBIFL bookstore constructed with eco-friendly bamboo and canvas, I found myself in a veritable ocean of fine books. A book caught my attention, its cover jacket showing a boy leaping off a sea-cliff descending headlong into the turquoise green-blue waters, arresting and dizzying at the same time. Sabin Iqbal’s first novel, The Cliffhangers (Aleph) - its textual narrative and pacing reflecting the cover-image rather appropriately. But all is not bright and bucolic, as the surface colours seemed to indicate. Set against a storyline of a tourist rape by alleged village teenagers, the novel probes into the dangerous fractures fuelled by party-driven communal politics and social instability, as it “expose the frailties of our own humanity”. The book forces a pause, to reflect, both inwards and outwards, at what is transpiring before our eyes - in full public view, as innocent citizens, are held hostage to - “We actually don't know what’s happening in Kashmir and Palestine… didn’t you hear what he said about the Muslims in Gujarat?” Faced-paced, nostalgic and wonderfully written, The Cliffhangers is an urgent and fine debut by a writer whose next work I look forward to as well. The Mark, By Bitan Chakraborty Shambhani pp.110 Rs 300. Yet another volume I picked up at the bookshop was Bitan Chakraborty’s book of little short stories, The Mark (Shambhabi). ![]() The cover featured a photograph, of a pair of bare human feet on grey-brown soil. On the ground’s surface was etched an imprint of a solitary twig, with its leaves leaning slightly askance, their vein-structures just as definitively articulated as the narrative inside the book. ![]() ![]() Translated from the original Bengali into English by Utpal Chakraborty, these are tales of the everyday middle and lower middle-class Bengali milieu. Send us feedback about these examples.Whether it is Lali “writhing in pain” or Fatik “trying to save some domestic goods from flattened house” in the story ‘Lost’ - or it is Pritha readying to get off as “the train slows down before pulling into Sealdah station” in the ‘Broken Moon’ - Chakraborty paints his scenes and constructs his characters with an authentic sense of conviction, evoking the ordinariness of the everyday. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'afloat.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Morgan Enos, Billboard, 4 June 2018 See More Rosemary Mccarthy,, 26 July 2019 The statement was made after it was announced that ABC and Roseanne’s cast and crew have been debating a way to keep the show’s brand afloat, including a possible spinoff with Darlene as the main character. 2019 Must have kept her afloat in ways that family couldn’t. 2020 A year ago, the Orioles were somewhat afloat and without a permanent solution in baseball operations or a field staff in place. ![]() Puller, a ship that serves as an afloat landing base. 2020 The American vessels included the USS Paul Hamilton, a Navy destroyer and the USS Lewis B. 2020 The prospect of news outlets turning to the government for financial assistance to keep afloat raises obvious questions about how organizations can maintain independence and objectivity. 2020 On Friday, Trump signed a $484 billion bill to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the pandemic - the latest federal effort to help keep afloat businesses that have had to close or scale down. Andrew Taylor, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023 The bill is the latest effort by the federal government to help keep afloat businesses that have had to close or dramatically alter their operations as states try to slow the spread of the virus. Recent Examples on the Web As the morning unspooled, these gave way to a creamy wash of slate blue and pearl gray, revealing our camp to be afloat on an ocean of gently swelling rocky dunes that stretched to the distant purple Atlas Mountains, whose peaks were luminous beneath fresh snow. ![]()
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