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Kancha Ilaiah on “Why I am not a Hindu” (From Stree Samya blog)

This is a blog post that I have taken as is from the Stree Samya Books blog. The link is: http://stree-samyabooks.blogspot.in/2013/03/why-i-am-not-hindu.html Why I Am Not
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Wendy Doniger “On Hinduism” ( 15 March 2013)

15 03 , 2013 No Comments

Wendy Doniger is an American indologist who has been writing for over forty-four years. In her introduction to On Hindusim she says that she always
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The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma

14 03 , 2013 No Comments

The Reading Promise: 3218 Nights of Reading with My Father is a gently told memoir by 21-year-old Alice Ozma. Her father was a librarian in
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“The Yellow Birds” Kevin Powers

06 03 , 2013 No Comments

“The Yellow Birds” is the story of Private John Bartle who is preparing to join the United States Army and be posted in Operation Desert
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Derek O’Brien ” Speak Up, Speak Out”

06 03 , 2013 No Comments

I actually enjoyed reading Speak Up, Speak Out by Derek O’Brien. A collection of elocution passages he obviously treasures. There is a headnote with every
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Extract from a letter I wrote to a friend about “Market Tales” by Jayant Kriplani

28 02 , 2013 1 Comment

Feb 2013 Helloji, I received a copy of Jayant Kriplani’s collection of short stories New Market Tales earlier this evening. I immediately picked it up
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Prasoon Joshi, “Sunshine Lanes”

26 02 , 2013 No Comments

The other day some friends of mine dipped into my copy of Prasoon Joshi’s Sunshine Lanes, a collection of his poetry/ lyrics written over the
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On Reviewing in India, Amit Chaudhuri

18 02 , 2013 No Comments

“Reviewing is often a form of thuggery in Anglophone India, territorial, threatening, a way of roughing somebody up; and the Books pages are a bit
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Amit Chaudhuri, “Calcutta” (17 Feb 2013)

17 02 , 2013 No Comments

Title: Calcutta: Two Years in the city Author: Amit Chaudhuri Publication details: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2013. Hb. Pp. 308
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“Don’t buy this book now!”

04 02 , 2013 No Comments

“Structured procrastination.” A delicious phrase coined by John Perry in Don’t But This Book Now! for merely faffing. Without really making you feel guilty he
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