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Of comic culture and conventions in India

An eleven-year-old girl had a birthday coming up. While swinging in the school playground she blurted out to me, “I do not want a birthday
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Tulsi Badrinath, “Madras, Chennai and the Self: Conversations with the city”

30 03 , 2015 No Comments

Madras and Chennai came into existence almost simultaneously in 1639, as two contiguous areas. While Madras went on to lend its name to the larger southern
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Kazuo Ishiguro, “The Buried Giant”

26 03 , 2015 No Comments

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Buried Giant is set in medieval England, Arthurian England. It is about an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice who set off on a
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Dharamvir Bharti, ” Chander & Sudha”, translated by Poonam Saxena

21 03 , 2015 No Comments

When he could school his mind to stay calm, when he could endure everything with a smile, why couldn’t Sudha? He was the one who, with
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Rabih Alameddine, ” An Unnecessary Woman”

20 03 , 2015 No Comments

When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade that separates me
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Alpha Maths, Scholastic India

18 03 , 2015 No Comments

( The following blog post is an extract from a letter I wrote to my cousin describing my delight at discovering Alpha Maths, published by Scholastic
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Helen Macdonald, “H is for Hawk”

17 03 , 2015 No Comments

The archaeology of grief is not ordered. ( p.199) Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk is about her relationship with her goshawk, Mabel. Grieving for the sudden
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Kiran Nagarkar, “Bedtime Story”

16 03 , 2015 No Comments

Draupadi: You have all gone stark, raving mad. You’re going to share me just because Mummy said so? And you expect me to turn
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Jip and Janneke – two kids from Holland

09 03 , 2015 No Comments

I received a beautiful book in the post last week. The moment I opened the parcel, my five-year-old daughter took the book away from me and
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Ruskin Bond “A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills”

03 03 , 2015 No Comments

Love your art, poor as it may be, which you have learned, and be content with it; and pass through the rest of life like
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