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Salman Rushdie, ” Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights: A novel”

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it. (p14) Salman Rushdie’s latest book, Two Years Eight Months and
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Literati: “For the price of a book…” ( 13 September 2015)

12 09 , 2015 No Comments

My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 12 September 2015) and will be in print ( 13 September 2015). Here is
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Storyweaver, Pratham Books

08 09 , 2015 No Comments

Welcome to StoryWeaver from Pratham Books : http://www.storyweaver.org.in. A whole new world of children’s stories. It is a platform that hosts stories in languages across
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Penguin Classics from Penguin Random House India ( 8 Sept 2015)

08 09 , 2015 No Comments

This is a fabulous catalogue of books. Many of them are being reissued, many are translations commissioned for the first time and some are award-winning
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Nell Zink, “The Wallcreeper”

04 09 , 2015 No Comments

Nell Zink’s debut novel, The Wallcreeper, was published in 2014. (It has recently been followed by Mislaid.) The Wallcreeper is a slim novel, about Tiffany and Stephen who
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Michel Bussi, “After the Crash”

01 09 , 2015 No Comments

Interesting little book. It is a translation. A thriller. Detailed as you would expect mystery stories to be. Bulk of the action takes place in
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Saikat Majumdar, “The Firebird”

31 08 , 2015 1 Comment

(Saikat Majumdar’s second novel, The Firebird, was published recently by Hachette India. I enjoyed reading it. Saikat and I exchanged a few emails. With the author’s
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Saad Z. Hossain, “Escape from Baghdad!”

28 08 , 2015 No Comments

( Aleph sent me an advance reading copy of Saad Z. Hossain’s debut novel, Escape from Baghdad! Upon reading it, Saad and I exchanged emails furiously.
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Sunjeev Sahota, “The Year of the Runaways”

27 08 , 2015 No Comments

‘It really is a pathetic thing. To mourn a past you never had. Don’t you think?’ p.216 Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways is his second
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Twinkle Khanna and Brigid Keenan

21 08 , 2015 No Comments

I have had immense good fortune of reading Twinkle Khanna’s Mrs Funnybones and Brigid Keenan’s Packing Up back-to-back. Mrs Funnybones is Twinkle Khanna’s debut as an author. It is based
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