Literati: “Ink on the Brink”

17 10 , 2015 No Comments
(My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 17 October 2015) and will be in print ( 18 October 2015). Here is the
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Press Release: The Read Quarterly

09 10 , 2015 No Comments
   Neil Gaiman Kickstarter video and Eoin Colfer original fiction help launch The Read Quarterly. The Read Quarterly (TRQ, www.thereadquarterly.com), the magazine launching in January 2016
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Hanif Kureishi “Love + Hate”

08 10 , 2015 No Comments
The cultural collisions he [Powell] was afraid of are the affirmative side of globalisation. People do not love one another because they are ‘the same’,
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Hanya Yanagihara, “A Little Life”

08 10 , 2015 No Comments
“Contracts are not just sheets of paper promising you a job, or a house, or an inheritance: in its purest, truest, broadest sense, contracts govern
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Press Release: Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, Literary Director, Siyahi

07 10 , 2015 No Comments
From its inception I have been associated with Siyahi.  It has been a wonderful few years. It is not an easy decision to move on
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Perumal Murugan’s statement on being awarded the Samanvay Literature Prize

06 10 , 2015 No Comments
Kannan Sundaram, Publisher, Kalachuvadu posted the following message from writer Perumal Murugan this morning ( 6 Oct 2015) on his Facebook page. This is regarding
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A way ahead for words: Juggernaut

03 10 , 2015 No Comments
  (I interviewed Chiki Sarkar and Durga Raghunath, co-founders of Juggernaut. As Chiki put it across so well, “Durga is part of the change and I
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Chhimi Tenduf-La, “Panther”

18 09 , 2015 1 Comment
Sri Lanka is such a beautiful country. We have it all; the beaches, the history, the hills, the heritage, the food, the smiling faces, the
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Laurie Penny “Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution”

14 09 , 2015 No Comments
‘Neoliberalism’ refers to the attempt to reorganise society and the state on the basis of an ideal of ‘the market’. Neoliberalism proclaims the logic of
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Muztar Khairabadi’s Khirman

14 09 , 2015 No Comments
  The Mint published a review by Rakhshanda Jalil on Muztar Khairabadi’s Khirman, now better known as Javed Akhtar’s grandfather. She gives a fantastic account
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