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A. C. Grayling “The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times”

3 May is World Press Freedom Day. 3 May 2015 is also when the unfortunate hashtag #GoHomeIndianMedia is trending on Twitter. The people of Nepal are
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Literati – “Serial publishing” ( 2 May 2015)

02 05 , 2015 No Comments

My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 2 May 2015) and will be in print ( 3 May 2015).
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Ruskin Bond, ” A Gathering of Friends”

30 04 , 2015 1 Comment

Earlier this month, Aleph Book Company, published Ruskin Bond’s A Gathering of Friends. It is a collection of twenty-one short stories. These have been chosen by the
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Toni Morrison “God Help The Child”

21 04 , 2015 No Comments

I wasn’t a bad mother, you have to know that, but I may have done some hurtful things to my only child because I had
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Two powerful books of fiction and farmers in India

13 04 , 2015 No Comments

For the past few years, India has witnessed a rise in the number of suicides by farmers. The primary reason is the inability to pay of
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A fistful of journalism: An interview with Deca collective

12 04 , 2015 No Comments

( I interviewed some members of the DECA collective. Founder-member, Sonia Faleiro facilitated the conversation via email. This was uploaded on the Hindu website on
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Ian Caldwell, “The Fifth Gospel”

07 04 , 2015 No Comments

Never had I seen a book made that way. Like a prehistoric creature found living at the bottom of the sea, it bore only the
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Literati – Of books and launches ( 5 April 2015)

04 04 , 2015 No Comments

(My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 4 April 2015) and will be in print ( 5 April 2015).
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Of comic culture and conventions in India

02 04 , 2015 No Comments

An eleven-year-old girl had a birthday coming up. While swinging in the school playground she blurted out to me, “I do not want a birthday
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Tulsi Badrinath, “Madras, Chennai and the Self: Conversations with the city”

30 03 , 2015 No Comments

Madras and Chennai came into existence almost simultaneously in 1639, as two contiguous areas. While Madras went on to lend its name to the larger southern
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