Thursday, February 21, 2008

Great Yates

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I read -- and marvelled at -- Richard Yates' classic, Revolutionary Road , for the first time only late last year, and resolved to get m...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Another Jodha Akbar

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The lastest issue of the New Yorker --- and how fortunate we are that it's all available online -- carries a piece by Salman Rushdie , ...
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Here Come The Clones

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This appeared in the February 18th issue of Tehelka . GENERATION 14 Priya Sarukkai Chabria Literary dystopias usually feature faceless, t...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Present Tense

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This appeared in today's edition of The Hindustan Times PAST CONTINUOUS Neel Mukherjee One of the devices used by novelists attempting...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Myth Making

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This is from the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai . THE AGE OF SHIVA Manil Suri In his The Elephanta Suite , Paul Theroux had some uncomplim...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Mum's The Word

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express AMMI: LETTER TO A DEMOCRATIC MOTHER Saeed Mirza Film directors who write are a comparativel...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Unholy Smoke

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Apologies for the absence. Have been busy with a lot of work, with a little travel, with re-reading Martin Amis ( Money , The Information, E...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Books 2007

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This was written for Mail Today , the India Today group's new New Delhi newspaper. Sadly, an errant sub-editor hacked off the last two ...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Ford Fiesta

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This appeared in the lastest issue of TimeOut Mumbai. THE NEW GRANTA BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY Edited by Richard Ford Funny things,...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Zuckerman Unmanned

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Looks like my New Year's resolution has to be to post more regularly. Meanwhile, here's a review that appeared in the December 29th ...