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Ambai “Fish in a Dwindling Lake”, translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom

( This was a review commissioned last year, but never published. So I am uploading it today on my blog. 26 June 2013) Fish in
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Neil Gaiman, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”

25 06 , 2013 No Comments

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense,
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Abdourahman A. Waberi, “Passage of Tears”

20 06 , 2013 No Comments

So I read Passage of Tears. My introduction to Abdourahman A. Waberi. What a writer! I am not sure if he worked on the English
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“Creative Writing in the Present Crisis” Jawaharlal Nehru, 1963

17 06 , 2013 1 Comment

( As the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru would have been the patron of Sahitya Akademi. The following are extracts from a speech he
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hOle Books, Duckbill Books

11 06 , 2013 1 Comment

In April 2013, Duckbill Books launched a new chapter book series in India called hOle books. ( Duckbill books was launched in 2012. It has
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Gouri Dange “More ABCs of Parenting”

11 06 , 2013 No Comments

There is a poem that I have pinned on my refrigerator. “Children Learn what they Live” by Dorothy Law Nolte. Here it is, copied from
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“Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century” Eric Hobsbawm

07 06 , 2013 No Comments

Fractured Times is a series of lectures delivered by Eric Hobsbawm at the annual Salzburg Festival. Those published in this book, were written between 1964-2012.
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“Accidental India”, Shankkar Aiyar

05 06 , 2013 No Comments

I read Accidental India last year. I enjoyed it since it visited parts of Indian history, linking it to the present. A narrative that can
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“A Delicate Truth” John le Carre, June 2013

01 06 , 2013 No Comments

My review of John le Carre’s latest novel, A Delicate Truth was published in the Hindu Literary Supplement. (Online on 1 June 2013 and in
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“‘Unsafe’ was a feeling he was familiar with.”

30 05 , 2013 No Comments

Salman Rushdie’s memoir Joseph Anton was released in 2012. Well before it was published it was being discussed–what will be said, what will not, will
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