Wednesday, December 30, 2009

An Incomplete And Biased List Of My Favourite Books (So Far) Of 2009, Including Some That Were Published In 2008

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Bookshops shut down, publishers saw more red ink than black and Sarah Palin outsold everyone else. No, it hasn’t been a good year for books ...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Top Ten Indian Genes

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India maps human genome – The Hindustan Times , December 9 . Allegedly, a hush-hush document prepared by scientists at the Council of Sc...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Turning Moments Into Mementoes

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express . THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE Orhan Pamuk In his Istanbul , Orhan Pamuk writes that the defini...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Low Interest Rate

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This appeared in the latest issue of Tehelka . DEATH OF A MONEYLENDER Kota Neelima The problem with polemical novels is that they’re more p...
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...