Sunday, June 15, 2014

We Need To Talk About Jerry

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . The spirit of J.D. Salinger still haunts us. Years after his death, there’s continuing speculation...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Literary Potshots

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . We need more satires and parodies. Everyone nowadays is far too ponderous, thin-skinned, ready t...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

The Pleasures Of Being A Pedestrian

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . To take a walk in an average Indian city is to embark upon a dispiriting exercise. Broken footpa...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Dictators And Memories

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Today's Sunday Guardian column. Dictators hate memories.  History can be rewritten, dissent can be suppressed, but remembrance cann...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Best Served Cold

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . One of the more commented-on aspects of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby was the decision to ne...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Now, A Reading App That Does Away With Reading

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . There’s been much chatter of late about a new app that promises to increase reading speeds . C...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

In An Antique Land

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This review appeared in today's The Indian Express At one point in Kamila Shamsie’s new novel, A God in Every Stone , a character...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Tolstoy Reports From Crimea

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My Sunday Guardian column . Over one-and-a-half centuries ago, a young Russian aristocrat racked with gambling debts enlisted in the ar...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

"One Of The Few English Novels For Grown-Ups"

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This appeared in the latest issue of the Sunday Guardian -- although, by mistake, under a different byline.  When I first read George ...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

One Of Marquez's Heirs

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . To the world, Gabriel Garcia Marquez still remains Latin America’s best-known writer, One Hundred ...