Friday, November 26, 2010

Windowpane Or Stained Glass?

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George Orwell wrote that good prose ought to be like a window pane. But those such as Nabokov, Banville and Updike prefer stained glass. The...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Family Matters

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This appeared in today's DNA . FREEDOM Jonathan Franzen In an essay for Harper’s magazine in 1996, Jonathan Franzen rued the con...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Books On Holiday

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What books do you take with you when travelling? My next Yahoo India column .
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Tusker Tale

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This appeared in last Saturday's The Indian Express THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY Jose Saramago In the tale of the blind men and the...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

For Laughter, Against Forgetting

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This appeared in last Sunday's edition of New Delhi's The Sunday Guardian   ENCOUNTER: ESSAYS Milan Kundera Two years ago, a ...
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...