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1 Issue, March/April 2025

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LETTERS Feedback from readers One of the obligations of an esteemed publication is to examine its agenda, to see if it is one of openness and inclusion or of promoting only particular perspectives. Namrata Poddar’s essay “Decolonize the Novel: Writing Against Western Strictures of Realism” (January/February 2025) seems to fit the former as she argues for wider definitions of forms of storytelling. But then she pivots to a diatribe against Israel using context for her essay as an excuse. At this point she is not addressing writing at all. While I do not support some of Israel’s actions in Gaza, I cannot accept the distortion of history by those who clearly haven’t done their due diligence. At her most offensive, Poddar [paraphrases Aimé Césaire in Discourse on Colonialism and] writes:…
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