Sunday, March 23, 2008

Love And Longing In Bombay

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . It's the third book I've read in a row by Indians writing in English that suffers fr...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Will, No Grace

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This appeared in yesterday's DNA . WHEREE THERE'S A WILL Matt Beaumont Some years ago, Matt Beaumont came to the attention of the...
Thursday, March 6, 2008

Looking London, Going Tokyo

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This appeared in the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai THE JAPANESE WIFE Kunal Basu The title story in Kunal Basu’s collection, The Japanese W...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Modernism And Its Discontents

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This appeared in the January-February 2007 issue of Biblio . MODERNISM: THE LURE OF HERESY Peter Gay Finding myself with a little time to ...
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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...