Manorama Yearbook 2021

08 01 , 2021 No Comments
Indian students are obsessed with reading for an exam. It is one of the primary reasons for the sharp fall in leisure reading as children
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“Shimmering Spring”

08 01 , 2021 No Comments
Shimmering Spring ( Hawakal Publishers) is an interesting collection of poems and prose edited by Kiriti Sengupta. 39 contributors from around the world but mostly
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Of “Maus” and men

08 01 , 2021 No Comments
My eleven-year-old daughter and I are reading Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel, Maus. It is chilling as Spiegelman draws his father’s memories of Nazi Germany
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“Lives of the Stoics”

08 01 , 2021 No Comments
Lives Of The Stoics by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman was published recently by Hachette India. It is a set of profiles of men and
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On fan fiction

06 01 , 2021 No Comments
Here is a short clip on fanfiction. It was triggered by a conversation I had with a friend upon reading Keshav Guha’s debut novel Accidental
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“A Bit of Everything” – panel discussion, 11 Jan 2021

05 01 , 2021 No Comments
Debut novelist Sandeep Raina will be in conversation with literary stalwarts Anita Nair and Omair Ahmad on Monday, 11 Jan 2021 to discuss his novel A Bit of Everything. It
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“Little Boy” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

05 01 , 2021 No Comments
How does one write about a book that has been published to mark the author’s centenary? A book that is promoted as the last will
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Avni Doshi “Girl in White Cotton”

05 01 , 2021 No Comments
I read Avni Doshi’s Girl In White Cotton and so should you. Read it for the exquisite craftsmanship of the sentences. The choice of words. The
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Desi Delicacies

04 01 , 2021 No Comments
Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley has been leading a fascinating project at Sheffield University that is focused upon reviving strains of crops that are no longer in
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“What are the books we are excited about in 2021?”

03 01 , 2021 No Comments
On 3 January 2021, I wrote about the wonderful books expected to be published in 2021. Here are the original links in the Asian Age
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