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.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Psst. Sar! You Are Wanting Book To Read?

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Confessions of an Indian book pirate: the next instalment of my Yahoo India column .
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Pak Pack

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express GRANTA 112: PAKISTAN Taken as a whole,  Granta ’s Pakistan-themed issue has  a packaged...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Novels At Work

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My Yahoo India column on fiction that deals with, in Alain de Botton's words, "the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty, and horror o...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A Gentle Madness

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This appeared in Sunday's DNA . THE GROANING SHELF Pradeep Sebastian There are debates aplenty over the talents of authors, the s...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Reading America

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This appeared in today's DNA . DRIVING HOME Jonathan Raban Though Jonathan Raban had been writing literary criticism and travelog...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Among The Believers

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This appeared in today's Mint Lounge THE MASQUE OF AFRICA V.S. Naipaul “Africa has no future”. That is how V.S. Naipaul ended a 1...
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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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