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Sunjeev Sahota, “Ours are the Streets”

This is an old review of mine. ( Here is the original link: http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/1543283/review-ours-are-the-streets-from-sheffield-boy-to-suicide-bomber ) It was published on 15 May 2011 in DNA. I
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‘I publish what I wish to’, Naveen Kishore, Publisher, Seagull Books

06 07 , 2013 1 Comment

My interview with Naveen Kishore, Publisher, Seagull Books was published today in the Hindu Literary Review. ( online edition, 6 July 2013 and print edition,
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Sachin Kundalkar, “Cobalt Blue” ( Translated by Jerry Pinto)

06 07 , 2013 1 Comment

I have just finished reading Cobalt Blue. It is a stunning novel. Jerry Pinto’s translation is exquisite. I have no idea how to explain it,
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Adil Jussawalla, “The Right Kind of Dog”

03 07 , 2013 No Comments

Slim hardback volume of poems by Adil Jussawalla. Written over many years, some previously published in Nabina Das’s The Four Quarters Magazine . Publishers rarely
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Kurt Vonnegut and Salman Rushdie, on writing

02 07 , 2013 1 Comment

‘Are you serious about this writing business?’ Vonnegut unexpectedly asked him as they sat drinking beers in the sunshine, and when he replied that he
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE Global Leadership Team, 1 July 2013 ( Press Release)

01 07 , 2013 No Comments

CEO MARKUS DOHLE ANNOUNCES PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP TEAM BERTELSMANN & PEARSON FINALIZE MERGER TRANSACTION (July 1, 2013)—The global senior executive team for Penguin
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Meghna Pant, “Happy Birthday! And other stories”

30 06 , 2013 No Comments

Sitting in the mall day after day, like mannequins on public display, we have become objects of ridicule, especially in the easy black-or-white judgement of
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Good Lit Versus Saleable Lit, PubSpeak, June 2013

30 06 , 2013 1 Comment

( My column, “PubSpeak”, for June 2013 is on What constitutes good literature? It is published in BusinessWorld online. The link is: http://www.businessworld.in/en/storypage/-/bw/good-lit-versus-saleable-lit/r964342.37528/page/0 . It
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Ambai “Fish in a Dwindling Lake”, translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom

26 06 , 2013 No Comments

( 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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