Sunday, January 26, 2014

Reading's Serious Pleasure

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Now that Jaipur's "largest free literary festival on earth” has come to a close, it’s ti...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

To Be Read In Bed

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A slightly condensed version of this appeared in today's Sunday Guardian . I spent most of last weekend in a horizontal position, so...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

My Favourite Unread Books Of The Year

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This appeared in today's Sunday Guardian . What a year it's been for not reading. From translated novels to Indian debuts to Am...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

In Defence Of Eloquence

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This appeared in today's Sunday Guardian . Apart from the larger issues that have come to the fore during the Tehelka imbroglio, th...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013

A Portuguese Sends A Postcard Home

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My Sunday Guardian column . Those who continually claim that the novel is dead are simply those who have closed their eyes to its poten...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Novels, Screens And Reality

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This fortnight's Sunday Guardian column . FreeDigitalPhotos.Net In an interview some years ago, Zadie Smith remarked that one ...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Meditation And Narration

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . In a blog post for the New York Review of Books last week, Tim Parks voiced a concern that ma...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Father, Sons And Everything In Between

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My Sunday Guardian column . “Fathers start as gods and end as myths and in between whatever human form they take can be calamitous for ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Maps Of Nepal

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Read some of the more acclaimed short story collections of recent times, and you’d be tempted...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Love (And Murder) In Tokyo

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . I’d heard much about Keigo Higashino’s murder mystery, The Devotion of Suspect X , but I read...
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