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Svetlana Alexievich Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Translated by Bela Shayevich)

(My review of Nobel winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time was published in Scroll on 23 July 2016 with the title” Imagine the tragedy of abandoning Communism without
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Ritu Khoda and Vanita Pai’s “Raza’s Bindu” with an afterword by S. H. Raza

24 07 , 2016 No Comments

In late 2014 Scholastic India published a remarkable little book called Raza’s Bindu. It is the first in “I am an Artist” series created by the
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“Oluguti Toluguti” and “Dum Dum Dho”: Nursery Rhymes for Children

21 07 , 2016 No Comments

I recently read two wonderful Tulika Book publications. Both the volumes published four years apart are a collection of popular collection of rhymes from various
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Sarah Crossan, “One”

17 07 , 2016 No Comments

( My review of Sarah Crossan’s award winning novel-in-verse One was published in Scroll today. Here is the url: http://scroll.in/article/811911/a-novel-about-conjoined-twins-in-verse-beats-facts-that-can-be-rather-terse . I am also c&p the text below. )
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Vinay Sitapati “Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao transformed India”

17 07 , 2016 No Comments

Ramu Damodaran remembers the moment of change. ‘The first time I got a sense of how self-assured he was becoming was when he started referring
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“Do you remember Kunan Poshpora?”

11 07 , 2016 No Comments

In the week when Kashmir is burning after the death of twenty-one-year-old Burhan Wani or as he is being referred in Indian media as “the
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Alain de Botton “The Course of Love”

11 07 , 2016 No Comments

I had posted this image on Instagram and Facebook. It had a tremendous response. Here are extracts of a conversation I had on Facebook. Starts
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Freedom of Expression: Perumal Murugan, 5 July 2016

06 07 , 2016 No Comments

On 5 July 2016 a landmark judgment was passed by the Madras High Court quashing the criminal case against Tamil writer Perumal Muruganor for allegedly
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On the Marrakesh Treaty and DK Braille Books

05 07 , 2016 No Comments

On 30 June 2016 Canada became the 20th country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,
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The Hogarth Shakespeare