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“Daughters Opera” (World Premiere), New Delhi: 3 – 5 Jan 2020

Daughters Opera is an inter-cultural contemporary performance work that brings women from diverse backgrounds, cultures and languages in a cross-artform setting. The opera invites an audience to
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Book Post 52: 25 Nov – 17 Dec 2019

17 12 , 2019 No Comments

Book Post 52 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. 17 Dec 2019
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Indo-French Collaboration: Paris Livre 2020 and New Delhi World Book Fair 2022

17 12 , 2019 1 Comment

On the morning of 11 November 2019, Christine Cornet, Attachée Débat d’Idées et Livre, Institut français India/Embassy of France, invited a few of us Indian
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Interview with New Zealand picture book author and illustrator, Ruth Paul

13 12 , 2019 No Comments

I met award-winning picture book author and illustrator Ruth Paul at the residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner on 4 Dec 2019 for a
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Interview with Dipankar Mukherjee, founder, Readomania

13 12 , 2019 No Comments

Dipankar Mukherjee is the Founder & Director of Readomania, an independent publishing house based in India. Under his stewardship, the house has produced more than
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Agni Sreedhar’s “The Gangster’s Gita”

09 12 , 2019 No Comments

The Gangster’s Gita by Agni Sreedhar is a slim book. It is a conversation between a hit man and his victim. They are waiting for
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Of debut novels

07 12 , 2019 No Comments

2019 is proving to be a year of debut writing. Perhaps it is also an indication of the disruption that digital technology has made of
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Elton John’s “Me”

06 12 , 2019 No Comments

I read Elton John’s autobiography Me that has been written with the assistance of journalist Alexis Petridis. It is so full of enjoyable trivia about
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“Love” by by Hanne Ørstavik and translated by Martin Aitken

05 12 , 2019 No Comments

The publisher, Stefan Tobler, very kindly sent a reading copy of the award-winning Love that I read in one fell swoop. I could not put
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Book Post 51: 12-24 Nov 2019

25 11 , 2019 No Comments

Book Post 51 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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