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“Basanti”

Basanti is an Odia novel written decades ago. It is also a fascinating exercise in literary experimentation. Well ahead of its times. The following extract
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“Preeto & Other Stories: The Male Gaze in Urdu”

08 03 , 2019 No Comments

Preeto & Other Stories : The Male Gaze in Urdu is a collection of short stories edited and introduced by noted writer and translator Rakhshanda
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“Questioning Paradigms, Constructing Histories: A Festchrift for Romila Thapar”

08 03 , 2019 No Comments

During the course of a long and distinguished career, historian and public intellectual, Romila Thapar has produced a unique body of work. Her original and
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Book Post 28: 18 February – 2 March 2019

03 03 , 2019 No Comments

At the beginning of the week I post some of the books I have received recently. In today’s Book Post 28 included are some of
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Interview with journalist Snigdha Poonam on her award-winning book “Dreamers”

28 02 , 2019 No Comments

Snigdha Poonam is a journalist with The Hindustan Times (HT) in Delhi. Her work has appeared in Scroll, The Caravan, The Times of India, The
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“Hey Kiddo!”

27 02 , 2019 No Comments

Writer and illustrator of children’s books Jarrett J. Krosoczka‘s graphic memoir Hey, Kiddo is as the sub-title describes “How I lost my mother, found my father, and
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“Poppy Field” by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman

27 02 , 2019 No Comments

Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction as a writer and nor does the illustrator, Michael Foreman. It is a formidable creative team that has together produced
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Book Post 27: 10-23 February 2019

26 02 , 2019 No Comments

At the beginning of the week I post some of the books I have received recently. In today’s Book Post 27 included are some of
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When I go to a war zone there’s a certain amount of my own equipment that I take with me. I take my own theatre scrubs and a gas mask, and I take my loupes, which are lenses with four-times magnification that help me perform intricate surgery on small blood vessels and flaps used in plastic surgery. I take a light source, a kind of headlamp, so that I continue to operate when the generators go down or the lights go off, and which also
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Jin Yong or Louis Cha, “Legends of the Condor Heroes”

22 02 , 2019 No Comments

Jin Yong was the nom de plume of Louis Cha. He is considered the maestro of the wuxia genre, a form of martial arts-heavy fantasy
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