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, May 29, 2010

American Pie

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA Peter Carey It’s an irony of history that an aristocrat from...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Medical Mystery Tour

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This appeared in the March/April issue of Biblio THE QUARANTINE PAPERS Kalpish Ratna Plagues have always attracted writers. The word itsel...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

A Beastly Tale

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This appeared in Saturday's The Hindustan Times BEATRICE AND VIRGIL Yann Martel There’s no getting away from it: Yann Martel’s Beatric...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Axe Effect

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My first column for Yahoo! India is up: this one deals with the proper role of the novel today . Do read.
Friday, May 14, 2010

Delta Force

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This appeared in last week's Mint Lounge KILLING THE WATER Mahmud Rahman A parlour game that’s sometimes been played is to list the me...
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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