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.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Spaced Out

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express CLEARING A SPACE Amit Chaudhuri “The literary essay,” wrote American essayi...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A Voice From Malaysia

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An edited e-mail interview with Preeta Samarasan , author of Evening Is The Whole Day , portions of which appear in a piece in the latest ...

Hindi Lessons

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This is from the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai T'TA PROFESSOR Manohar Shyam Joshi Years ago, the venerable Reader’s Digest...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Marathon Man

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING Haruki Murakami He used to own a jazz b...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Off The Beaten Path

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This appeared in yesterday's The Sunday Express . A BLUE HAND: THE BEATS IN INDIA Deborah Baker In a recent interview, Amit Chaudhuri ...
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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