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.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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This review, and the one that follows, appeared in the April 18 issue of TimeOut Mumbai . UNACCUSTOMED EARTH Jhumpa Lahiri Michael Frayn o...
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Utterly Monkey

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GORILLA Shobasakti Playful and sardonic aren’t words that you’d use to describe depictions of the bloody ethnic unrest that has characteriz...
Monday, April 14, 2008

How To Write About Authors In The Indian Media

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Worried that a lack of knowledge or an unbiased attitude will get you nowhere in the exciting world of journalism? Don't fret. Follow th...
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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Self Help

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This is from the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai . HIS ILLEGAL SELF Peter Carey Shape-shifters, continent-crossers and murky identities ar...
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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