Thursday, January 29, 2009

Updike's Five

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From an essay in Picked Up Pieces (1975), John Updike's rules for book reviewing: 1. Try to understand what the author wishes to do, a...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Chicago On The Nile

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This appeared in the latest TimeOut Mumbai . CHICAGO Alaa Al Aswany “I am an American, Chicago-born,” said Bellow’s Augie March in his n...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Cheers

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This appeared in today's The Hindustan Times . EVERYDAY DRINKING Kingsley Amis Consider, first, this description of the stat...
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Vigour Mortis

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express . DEATH AT INTERVALS Jose Saramago “The following day, no one died”. That is th...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

A Few To Look Forward To In 2009

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To begin with, Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow (the writer who once said his subject was men now takes a look at feminism) and Robert Harr...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Art Of Dying

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This appeared in today's DNA . NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF Julian Barnes “I’m not afraid of dying,” Woody Allen once remarke...
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Friday, December 12, 2008

Wok The Talk

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This appeared in the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai. BALTI BRITAIN Ziauddin Sardar Ziauddin Sardar has tirelessly advocated the...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

2008's 10

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Birds do it, bees do it; even educated fleas do it. Let’s do it: let’s talk of the best books of 2008. First, a moment to figh...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Mumbai Pages

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This is from today's The Sunday Express . He spent his last years with stray cats in a seedy lane in Mumbai, a stone’s throw from Narima...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Girl, Interrupted

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This appeared in yesterday's DNA . A GIRL AND A RIVER Usha K.R. The nationalistic fervour that preceded India ’s partition ...