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, July 27, 2014

Papa's Wives

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . The pair is the primary creative unit, wrote Joshua Wolf Shenk recently in the New York Times . “A...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Voices From The City

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This review appeared in today's Indian Express . Engglishhh Altaf Tyrewala Fourth Estate/Harper Collins We bemoan the c...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Short Story's Lonely Voice

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My Sunday Guardian column . We’re all aware that the novel is dead. People have been making pronouncements about its demise for age...
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...
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