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Fragments against My Ruin
The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a career in journalism interviewing Pink Floyd and Allen Ginsberg and covering the first meeting between the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Dhondy was soon drawn into political activism. He joined the Indian Workers Association and the British Black Panther Movement. Within the radical activist collective Race Today, he worked alongside Darcus Howe and C. L. R. James. An award-winning writer, he co-wrote the ground-breaking sit-com Tandoori Nights. In 1984 he became Channel 4â...
Poona Company
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Words
Bombay duck, hobson-jobson, big cheese, minaret - words are cultural signifiers, slices of history made up of letters. In Words, Farrukh Dhondy reveals a certain landscape of India through a joyful exploration of Indianisms and Indo-British usages, including slang, choice curse words and colonial coinage. He cites Anglo-Indian dictionaries and Cockney kids, Parsi grandmothers and bartenders, foul-mouthed neighbours, history books and tour guides. Dhondy's musings on etymological evolution bring to light the social, moral and often less-than-moral beliefs and behaviours these sayings stem from.Just goes to show - whether it's an earnest chat or gossip, we are saying more than we realize.
Hafiz
This bouquet of a hundred quatrains is an opportunity to enjoy the beauty of his verse, as their exquisite nature is preserved in Farrukh Dhondy's masterful translation.
Smart Moves
Dino's a smart talker. But some moves are smart, and some are not so smart. This play is is Set C of the "High Impact" series of plays desined to develop the confidence, reading ability and enthusiasm for drama of reluctant secondary school students.
Adultery and Other Stories
This delightful collection of short stories introduces an international cast of characters, including the aging and unsuccessful poet, Sufi; celebrity-hungry American students; Indian archaeologists; an abandoned wife who sets out on a voyage of discovery, and William the white Rastafarian. Relationships fold and unfold, and faith and the seventh commandment are tested and broken. The stories, embracing modem dilemmas, are about love, lust, friendship, betrayal, and the timeless ways of the human heart.
Rumi A New Translation
Marked by lyrical beauty and spiritual insight, a deep understanding of human suffering that coexists with rapturous abandon, the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi continue to be relevant almost eight centuries after they were composed, with contemporary audiences finding new meanings in them. Rumi's poems bring together the divine and the human, the mystical and the corporeal to create a vivid kaleidoscope of poetic images. While many recent 'translations' have sought to give Rumi's poetry a certain hippy sensibility, robbing it of its true essence, Farrukh Dhondy attempts to bring out the beauty and sensibility of the verses whilst imitating the metre of the original. Dhondy's translations provide a modern idiom to the poems, carefully keeping intact their religious context.
Black Swan
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Rumi
Rediscover the voice and vision of Rumi in this new translation of selected poems by the beloved Muslim spiritual master and Sufi...
Cambridge Company
This was egalitarian England. I would neither need nor have servants here. Everyone I met in India mentioned this fact as if it were the most significant feature of Western civilization and modernity. When young Farrukh arrives at Cambridge from small-town Poona, he’s resigned to having no servants to wait on him, wearing tweed and studying hard, but what he encounters is an England that no one has prepared him for. This is the sixties, when Britain is in the throes of the Mods and the Rockers – and the sexual revolution, along with endless protest demonstrations, is in full swing. Farrukh quickly realizes that he has a lot to learn: from figuring out how to load the washing machine to coming to terms with a long-distance relationship; from expounding on religion and sexuality to discovering his love for theatre. Told in a series of vividly detailed vignettes, Cambridge Company is a witty and charming account of collegiate life that captures the exuberance and the idealism of youth.
