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Perumal Murugan “Pyre”

“…if we start this festival here with this impurity in our midst, we might incur the wrath of Goddess Mariyatha.” … Kumaresan, who had stayed
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Max Porter “Grief is the thing with Feathers”

06 06 , 2016 No Comments

‘If your wife is a ghost, then she is not wailing in the cupboards and corners of this house, she is not mooching about bemoaning
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Shobha Rao ” An Unrestored Woman”

03 06 , 2016 No Comments

Shobha Rao’s Unrestored Woman is a collection of short loosely interlinked stories first published by Virago Press and released in the Indian subcontinent by Hachette. The stories
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Review of Fiston Mwanza Majila, “Tram 83” : Waiting for Godot in the Congo

02 06 , 2016 2 Comments

I reviewed for The Wire, Fiston Mwanza Majila’s wonderful debut Tram 83, translated by Roland Glasser from French into English and originally published by Deep Vellum ( USA). It
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Katherine Applegate, “The One and Only Ivan” and “Crenshaw”

30 05 , 2016 No Comments

Katherine Applegate’s Newberry award-winning book The One and Only Ivan (2012) is a stunningly beautiful book and a must read for children and adults alike.
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Kindle Instant Preview launched in India, 24 May 2016

24 05 , 2016 No Comments

The Kindle Instant Preview ( or #KindleInstantPreviews) was launched in USA in January 2016. It is a new feature instituted by Amazon that lets third-party
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Chitra Bannerjee Divakurni, “Before We Visit the Goddess”

20 05 , 2016 No Comments

Earlier this week I interviewed Chitra Bannerjee Divakurni via email about her latest novel, Before We Visit the Goddess, published by Simon & Schuster. The review-cum-interview article
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Garth Greenwell, “What Belongs to You”

18 05 , 2016 No Comments

…more and more I took refuge in books, not serious or significant books but books that offered an escape from myself, and it was these
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Robert Seethaler, “A Whole Life”

15 05 , 2016 No Comments

You can buy a man’s hours off him, you can steal his days from him, or you can rob him of his whole life, but
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Saadat Hasan Manto, 11 May

11 05 , 2016 No Comments

11 May is Saadat Hasan Manto’s birthday. He is remembered for his short fiction, his commentaries, his journalistic pieces including those on filmmakers and much more. He
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