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, June 30, 2008

The Plane Truth

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A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES Mohammed Hanif After coming out of the shadows of magic realism, it looks like we’ve returned to the penumbra o...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Not Entirely Smooth Sailing

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times. SEA OF POPPIES Amitav Ghosh The alkaloid that seduced Baudelaire and a subsequent generati...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

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This is from the latest TimeOut Mumbai. GUARDIAN OF THE DAWN Richard Zimler A novel set against the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa in the ...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Shelved

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A bookstore at the new airport in Bangalore doesn't appear to think too highly of recent work by Messrs Mukherjee, Rushdie, Banker and H...
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Monday, June 2, 2008

Less Graphic, More Novel

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This appeared in yesterday's DNA . KARI Amruta Patil One of the things that can be said about graphic novels as opposed to their all-p...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

The Write Stuff

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . As it turns out, in the gap between writing and publication, I actually managed to read -- a...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Epic Illusion

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A slightly edited version of this appeared in Sunday's DNA . THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni In The Palace of Illus...

Fangalore

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This appeared in the May 16 issue of TimeOut Mumbai. THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga In the title story of Lavanya Sankaran’s The Red Carpet...
Sunday, May 4, 2008

New Grub Street

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ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN Keith Gessen Early on in Keith Gessen’s debut novel, one of the characters visits his ex-girlfriend being tr...

Too Much To Tell

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express. SOMETHING TO TELL YOU Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi’s sixth novel is a long, sometimes en...
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