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David Walliams “The World’s Worst Children”

This awful book, and it is awful, especially the spelling, will have a very bad influence on young minds. It will give children lots and lots of
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Hisham Matar “The Return”

04 07 , 2016 No Comments

( My review of The Return has been published in the Scroll on 10 July 2016. The url is: http://scroll.in/article/811475/as-polls-near-number-of-cases-filed-against-opposition-leaders-in-goa-go-up ) I had never been anywhere so burdened with
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“Penguin on Wheels: Walking BookFairs and Penguin Books India”

28 06 , 2016 No Comments

( I wrote an article for the amazing literary website Bookwitty.com on “Penguin on Wheels”. An initiative of Walking BookFairs and Penguin Books India. It
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M. A. Orthofer’s “The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction”

26 06 , 2016 No Comments

My review of Michael Orthofer’s wonderful book The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction has been published in the award-winning website, Scroll, on 26 June 2016. Here is
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Neil Gaiman, “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction”

19 06 , 2016 No Comments

Neil Gaiman is the superstar of storytellers and one of the leading influencers on social media with his strongly voiced opinons. He is incredibly generous while
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Pallavi Aiyar “Babies and Bylines: Parenting on the Move”

19 06 , 2016 No Comments

…while there may have been a many-shaped gulf between Julio and me on the parenting experience, the chasm separating male and female writers was of
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The Panama Papers ( June 2016 )

15 06 , 2016 No Comments

‘The biggest leak in the history of data journalism’
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Siddharth Mukherjee “The Gene: An Intimate History”

14 06 , 2016 No Comments

( This blog post was picked up by the award-winning news website, Scroll. An edited version of this review was published by Scroll’s literary editor,
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Alec Ross “The Industries of the Future”

10 06 , 2016 No Comments

The day history is made in USA with Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee and endorsed by outgoing President of the USA, Barack
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Novoneel Chakraborty “The Stranger Trilogy”

06 06 , 2016 2 Comments

Novoneel Chakraborty is a successful commercial fiction writer who is known for his psycho-sexual or romantic thrillers. He is now a screenwriter for television too.
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