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.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Going, Going, Gone

This appeared in today's DNA . WAY TO GO Upamanyu Chatterjee “To a man with a hammer,” wrote Mark Twain, “the world is a nail”. And to...

Monday, February 8, 2010

The World's First D-I-Y Book Review

There seems to be, these days, much fuss over book reviews. As a service to men and women of letters everywhere, therefore, here's the w...

A Room Of Her Own

This appeared in Saturday's The Indian Express THE PATIENCE STONE Atiq Rahimi At the very beginning of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Note...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

If You Really Want To Hear About It

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...

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