Saturday, September 18, 2010

It's A Rich Man's World

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This appeared in the latest issue of Time Out Mumbai UNION ATLANTIC Adam Haslett The fall of Lehman Brothers, the fraudulence of Enro...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Tasted Any Good Books Lately?

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One could say of Roth's  Portnoy's Complaint  that it's “cheeky and bold, with a distinctly tart aftertaste". Of Roth's...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Love And Longing In Mumbai

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This appeared in yesterday's edition of New Delhi's The Sunday Guardian . SARASWATI PARK Anjali Joseph A letter-writer in his...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Absurdistan

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Or, why more novelists ought to embrace  mischievousness, black humour, invented lands and implausible metaphors: My next Yahoo! India colum...
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Gornick On Naipaul

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While awaiting The Masque of Africa , I dipped into Vivian Gornick's The Men in my Life , and was struck by how this passage captures pe...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Re-inventing Filipino History

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This appeared in the last issue of New Delhi's The Sunday Guardian . (I'm told the website should be operational soon.) ILUSTRAD...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Putting The Coo In Coorg

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express TIGER HILLS Sarita Mandanna Rubies flash fire, chills run down spines, soothsayers pr...

Not Much Of A Stranglehold

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This appeared in today's The Hindustan Times THE THING ABOUT THUGS Tabish Khair Thug. In mid-19 th century Britain, that word wa...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Pollyanna Doesn't Live here Anymore

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Or, why misery makes for good fiction. The next installment of my Yahoo! India column .
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

The A-Z Of Christopher Hitchens

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This is the first version of a review I did for DNA, the more 'conventional' form of which you can read here . HITCH-22 Christop...