Tackling grief with a munchkin and related literature!

23 08 , 2018 No Comments
A longer version of this article called “What I learned about grieving and how to explain sad rituals to children” was published on my TOI
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Book Post 6: 12 – 18 August 2018

20 08 , 2018 No Comments
Every Monday I post some of the books I have received in the previous week. Embedded in the book covers and post will also be
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Mark O’Connell’s “To Be a Machine”

17 08 , 2018 No Comments
Religion, more or less, arises out of divine wreckage. And science, too — religion’s estranged half sibling — addresses itself to such animal dissatisfactions. In The
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Dave Barry “Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog”

15 08 , 2018 No Comments
Pulitzer Prize Winner and popular columnist Dave Barry writes about turning 70 gracefully and the lessons he has learned from his 11-year-old rescue dog, Lucy.
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“Strongmen” by Eve Ensler, Danish Husain, Vijay Prashad

14 08 , 2018 No Comments
Strongmen is a slim book, a collection of fables about strong men. As the book blurb says “Eve Ensler, the American playwright (The Vagina Monologues), goes
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“Stalking the Story” and “Journalism as Genocide”

14 08 , 2018 No Comments
It is an uncanny coincidence that today two seminal articles have been published online analysing journalism as we know it today and its complicity with
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An interview with Bina Shah on her feminist dystopic novel “Before She Sleeps”

14 08 , 2018 No Comments
Before She Sleeps is Pakistani writer Bina Shah’s fifth novel. ( On Twitter: @binashah ) It is about an “illegal” commune of women who reside in an abandoned warehouse
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Oliver Sacks’s “The River of Consciousness”

14 08 , 2018 No Comments
Sometimes it is impossible to “review” a book except to say “Read it”. Oliver Sacks The River of Consciousness is a fine example of this.  It is
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‘India and the World: A History in Nine Stories’

14 08 , 2018 No Comments
In May a two-month exhibition opened at National Museum, New Delhi. It had been curated by Naman P. Ahuja and Jeremy David Hill. The introduction
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Book Post 5: 5 – 12 August 2018

13 08 , 2018 No Comments
Every Monday I post some of the books I have received in the previous week. Embedded in the book covers and post will also be
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