Saturday, October 31, 2015

Carrying A Mirror Down Istanbul's Roads

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A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND Orhan Pamuk This appeared in today's The Indian Express In a scene from Orhan Pamuk’s 2008 novel, The...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

New Lives In A New Country

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This review of Sunjeev Sahota's Booker long-listed The Year of the Runaways appeared in  today's The Indian Express . Asserting...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Colonising The Present

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This review of Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter appeared in today's Indian Express . The past is a foreign country, L.P. Ha...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Home And The World

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express On a December morning in 1986, the ten-year-old Rafia Zakaria’s Aunt Amina left her h...

Bihari Hamlets And Don Quixotes

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This appeared in the March 9, 2015 issue of India Today . In one of the stories from Siddharth Chowdhury’s new collection, The Patna Ma...
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...