Sunday, June 26, 2011

Navigating The Opium Trade

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This appeared in today's DNA RIVER OF SMOKE  Amitav Ghosh Set in 18 th century Japan, David Mitchell’s recent The Thousand Autumn...
Friday, June 24, 2011

The Decline And Fall Of Handwriting

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Languishing in remote corners of publishers' warehouses must be piles of mildewed books that claim to understand human beings through t...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Reading Yoga

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Practitioners of  yoga  have been much in the news these days — sadly, not because of the practice of yoga. Such a practice, as we should al...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Broken Wishbone Of Bangladesh

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Guardian THE GOOD MUSLIM Tahmima Anam Independence and its discontents are at the heart of Ta...
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...