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.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Satyrs Of Suburbia

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This appeared in today' s Indian Express COLLECTED STORIES Hanif Kureishi In his introduction to The Second Plane , Martin Amis writes,...

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Little Light, More Heat

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This appeared in today's DNA . SOLAR Ian McEwan You can’t scan the newspaper these days without spotting headlines dealing with the fa...

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Who's Indian, What's Authentic

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This appeared in today's DNA . BECOMING INDIAN Pavan K. Varma The ultimate triumph of colonialism is to keep the subject’s mind in chai...

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Slim Book, Weighty Point

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A slightly abridged version of this appeared in today's The Indian Express POINT OMEGA Don DeLillo In Don DeLillo’s 2007 Falling Man ,...

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Going, Going, Gone

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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...

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Monday, February 8, 2010

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

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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...

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