Antiblurbs

You can buy them. You can borrow them. You can download them. But are all those books out there really worth your while? Herewith some brief assessments.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Latter-day Godivas

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(In another departure from the Ennobling World of Literature, here's a piece of mine that appeared in the Mumbai edition of today's ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Lunar Module

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SORROWS OF THE MOON Iqbal Ahmed First published in 2004 and re-released in paperback this year to cash in on the renewed interest in East-m...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Manhattan Maladies

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The demands of work have kept me away from this blog for a while; in a feeble attempt to set the balance right, I'm posting an edited ve...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Nigerian Rhapsody

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An edited version of a review that appeared in the July 13 issue of TimeOut Mumbai . HALF OF A YELLOW SUN Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This is...
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Sunday, July 8, 2007

Knocking On Woody

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An edited version of a review that appeared in today's Hindustan Times MERE ANARCHY Woody Allen Woody Allen’s first collection of piec...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Red Hot Chile Writing

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An edited version of a review that appeared in the June 29 issue of TimeOut Mumbai . THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES Roberto Bolano Translated from t...

Song Of The Last Resort

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An edited version of a review that appeared in the June 29 issue of TimeOut Mumbai . THE GARDENER’S SONG Kalpana Swaminathan It’s time to be...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Out Of Place, Again

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KARMA AND OTHER STORIES Rishi Reddi To an audience weaned on the immigrant fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri, Tanuja Hidier and Bharati Mukherjee, ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Good Doctor

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BETTER: A SURGEON'S NOTES ON PERFORMANCE Atul Gawande With Complications , Boston-based surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande joi...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Not Midnight's Children

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While I'm waiting for the reviews of the books mentioned in the last post to be published so I can post them here, here's a little d...
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