Saturday, May 28, 2011

Reader, Interrupted

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One of the aims of the novelist, writes John Gardner in his The Art of Fiction , is to create for the reader “a vivid and continuous dream”...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Ganesh's Book

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This appeared in yesterday' s The Indian Express LEELA'S BOOK Alice Albinia In The Great Indian Novel , Shashi Tharoor came up...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Walk Of Life

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A slightly different version of this appeared in today' s DNA . OPEN CITY Teju Cole A young man walks the streets of New York City...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

When Authors Borrow Characters

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Daniel Defoe died three centuries ago. Yet, in December 2003, at a Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, the world listened to him musing on Ro...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Tweedledee, Tedium

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This appeared in the latest issue of Tehelka . THE PALE KING David Foster Wallace Towards the middle of David Foster Wallace’s posthu...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Border Ballads

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This appeared in today' s Mint Lounge. THE WANDERING FALCON Jamil Ahmad It was Kipling who was largely responsible for the myth-ma...

Up In The Air

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times. THE CLOUD MESSENGER   Aamer Hussein At one point in Aamer Hussein’s The Cloud Messenger ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Where Have All The Myths Gone?

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Abandoned children, scorned suitors, valiant women and men struggling against fate, shape-shifting tricksters, Pyrrhic victories and rites o...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Balkan Beast

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express. THE TIGER'S WIFE Tea Obreht You can erase national boundaries, but me...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Unfinished, Not Unpublished

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After what Amit Varma calls "the longest drinks break in history", the Yahoo India columns are back. And my piece on unfinished ma...