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.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Revisiting The White Hotel

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Pornography and plagiarism. While soft-core versions of the former dominate best-seller lists, w...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Revisiting Chandler's Mean Streets

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My column for the Sunday Guardian . According to a recent report, John Banville will be picking up Raymond Chandler’s mantle to write ...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Reading While Travelling

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My column for the Sunday Guardian. On a recent two-week work trip, the Kindle resolved at least one dilemma: that of how many books to ...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Words, Labels And Heinrich Böll

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Today's column for the Sunday Guardian. Consider, to begin with, the following scenario: Women whose morals are questioned because...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Revieweresque

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Book reviewers tend to employ the same adjectives over and over again. Novels are ‘evocative’, ...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Killing Us Softly

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This appeared in today's edition of Mint Lounge . I AM AN EXECUTIONER   Rajesh Parameswaran Reading Rajesh Parameswaran’s debut ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

The Laureate Of Old New York

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Yesterday's Sunday Guardian column . From 1964 till his death in 1996, staff writer Joseph Mitchell came to his office at the Ne...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Power Of A Sense Of Place

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Today's column for the Sunday Guardian If you were to ask readers about their favourite books, the answers would a...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Out Of Focus

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This appeared in the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai THE VILLAGE Nikita Lalwani Nikita Lalwani’s second novel, The V...
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