Saturday, July 26, 2008

Crying Wolf

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This appeared in the latest TimeOut Mumbai . In passing, it's interesting that wolves should figure so prominently in mythology and folk...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Cover Stories

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . The problem with satire is that people are apt to take it literally. Something you don’t nee...
Friday, July 11, 2008

A Well-thumbed Thesaurus

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Just in case you were too busy to read Shashi Tharoor's short encomium in today's Times of India on Rushdie's Midnight's C...
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...