Friday, December 19, 2014

Speak, Memory

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This review of Janice Pariat's Seahorse appeared in the current issue of India Today . Written in a folkloric style best describ...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

The History Man

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This review of Aatish Taseer's The Way Things Were appeared in today's Mint Lounge . Given the recent kerfuffle over the HRD ...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

If On A Winter's Night A Professor

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Today's Sunday Guardian column. Beset by thoughts of a mysterious incident, an alienated individual walks alone down city streets fa...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Murakami's Book Of Sand

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This review appeared in the latest issue o f India Today . Haruki Murakami’s new novel is quite unlike the baggy mess that was his ea...

Turning Books Into Art

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . 'A Bit Of Paper Art'  / Etsy.com Earlier this month, a Mumbai gallery showcased a bo...
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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