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, August 24, 2009

Tales Of Two Cities

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This was written a few months ago for a newspaper supplement that stubbornly refused to materialise. JEFF IN VENICE, DEATH IN VARANASI ...

Madam, I'm Adam

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This appeared in Saturday's DNA . GENESIS Bernard Beckett We’re well into the third millennium of recorded history. The worl...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Lush Prose, Bleak Vision

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This appeared in the latest issue of Tehelka RUPTURE Sampurna Chattarji Pick up a debut novel from the Indian fiction section o...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Nostalgist's Map Of Pakistan

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express THE WISH MAKER Ali Sethi At the heart of Ali Sethi's debut novel is a tale of transgre...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Grilled Fish

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This appeared in today's DNA . YOUR INNER FISH Neil Shubin At a time when some people are still getting over the fact that men and mon...
Sunday, July 5, 2009

Not So Striking

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . THE STRIKE Anand Mahadevan Ah, the joys of coming of age in an Indian city in the Eighties....
Thursday, June 25, 2009

A Rediscovery Of India

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This appeared in the latest issue of Biblio . A PLACE WITHIN: REDISCOVERING INDIA M.G. Vassanji Pity the poor travel writer. Long ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Explaining A P2C2E

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . FROM FATWA TO JIHAD Kenan Malik “Nobody would have the balls today to write Th...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Stodgy Fare

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express IN THE KITCHEN Monica Ali Considering that there’s a mysterious death on the ve...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Afternoon Raag

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This appeared in yesterday's The Sunday Express. THE IMMORTALS Amit Chaudhuri In an essay from his recent collection, Clearing a Spac...
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