{"id":6093,"date":"2012-08-15T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:04:06","slug":"summer-reads-monica-modys-top-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/summer-reads-monica-modys-top-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads: Monica Mody&#8217;s Top Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s reading list, part of our 2012 Summer Reads series, comes from Issue 4 contributor and former <em>L<\/em><em>R\u00a0<\/em>book reviewer Monica Mody. Her recommended reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/navayana.org\/?p=1035\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability<\/em><\/a>. Art: Durgabai Vyam,\u00a0Subhash Vyam; Story: Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand (Navayana)<\/p>\n<p>Breathtaking reworking of the graphic novel form by the Pardhan Gond\u00a0artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam, which opens out the story of\u00a0BR Ambedkar&#8217;s life into a multilinear, multi-layered narrative about\u00a0how caste oppression continues in contemporary India.<\/p>\n<p>2. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780140442700,00.html?strSrchSql=speaking+of+siva%2A\/Speaking_of_Siva_Anonymous\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking of Siva<\/a><\/em>, translated by A.K. Ramanujan (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>Translations into English of the vacanas, i.e. bhakti poems, of four\u00a010th-12th century Virasaiva saints from Karnataka, along with a\u00a0wonderful introduction by Ramanujan.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/44789\/india-by-diana-l-eck\" target=\"_blank\"><em>India: A Sacred Geography<\/em><\/a>, by Diana L. Eck (Harmony)<\/p>\n<p>Eck meticulously and soulfully persuades that the landscape of India\u00a0is &#8220;living, storied, and intricately connected&#8221; through pilgrimage\u00a0practices.<\/p>\n<p>Also I&#8217;ve been keeping track of the books I buy\/borrow\/receive (and read) as I\u00a0travel through India this\u00a0summer&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modymonica.com\/2012\/08\/book-trails-through-india-updated.html\" target=\"_blank\">this list <\/a>might also be interesting\u00a0to <em>LR<\/em> readers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em>For more, read Monica&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/issue4\/9_10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Myth of Spirits<\/a>\u201d in\u00a0<\/em>Lantern Review<em>, Issue 4.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To see the rest of this series (and find out what else our contributors have been reading this summer),\u00a0<a title=\"Summer Reads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/category\/summer-reads\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What have you been reading this summer? Leave us a comment or drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter to let us know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s reading list, part of our 2012 Summer Reads series, comes from Issue 4 contributor and former LR\u00a0book reviewer Monica Mody. Her recommended reads: 1. Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability. Art: Durgabai Vyam,\u00a0Subhash Vyam; Story: Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand (Navayana) Breathtaking reworking of the graphic novel form by the Pardhan Gond\u00a0artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[351],"tags":[353,690,555,1053],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}