Monday, September 21, 2009

The Fun Of The Shudder

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This appeared in The Hindustan Times on Saturday THE LITTLE STRANGER Sarah Waters M.R. James, doyen of the English ghost story, once summ...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Footnotes: The Future Of Fiction

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Pity the poor writer of fiction. E very published sentence is now zealously scrutinised for the possibility of insult, injury or offence. Ha...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Too Long For A Short Story, Too Short For A Novel

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This appeared in The Times of India sometime in 2005. I can't locate it online, and can't even locate the hard copy that must be,...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

52 Poems

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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....