Saturday, January 30, 2010

If You Really Want To Hear About It

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . How many Zen Buddhist monks does it take to change a lightbulb, asks the old joke. The answe...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Love One Another And Die

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A slightly shorter version of this appeared in today's The Hindustan Times IF I COULD TELL YOU Soumya Bhattacharya The narrator of Saum...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Sex And Death

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A slightly edited version of this appeared in today's Mint Lounge THE HUMBLING Philip Roth Given that there’s usually been a hallway o...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Home Run

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This appeared in yesterday's The Indian Express . HOME BOY H.M. Naqvi Voice. Often, it’s the attribute that sets the talented novelist...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Jet Lag

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This appeared in the latest issue of Tehelka ROADRUNNER: AN INDIAN QUEST IN AMERICA Dilip D'Souza One of the problems besetting the tr...
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...