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Guest post: On Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic”

My mother, Dr Shobhana Bhattacharji, taught the Odyssey for many years to her undergraduate classes. She would return home to tell my brother and me the
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“First Person” by Richard Flanagan

05 02 , 2018 1 Comment

My review of award winning Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s latest novel First Person was published in The Hindu on Sunday, 4 February 2018. I am also c&p
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Naveen Kishore’s keynote address at Jaipur Book Mark, JLF 2018

02 02 , 2018 No Comments

Naveen Kishore, founder, Seagull Books — one of the best publishing houses that produces exquisite books in translation. He was invited to deliver the keynote
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Debate: Aniruddhan Vasudevan declines the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize, 2016 and response by jury member, Githa Hariharan

02 02 , 2018 No Comments

Aniruddhan Vasudevan, the writer who translated Perumal Murugan’s Tamil novel Madhorubagan into English on Monday 29 Jan 2018 declined the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize, 2016. Madhorubagan, translated
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“Season of Crimson Blossoms” by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

31 01 , 2018 No Comments

It occurred to her then that in the final analysis, dreams can be dainty and beautiful, like butterflies, and just as fragile. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s
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“Notes on a Thesis” and “Mirror, Shoulder, Signal”

31 01 , 2018 No Comments

Reading translations is always a pleasure particularly for opening new worlds. The storyteller of course has a fabulous story to tell but for it to
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“A Time for Madness: Memoir of Partition” Salman Rashid

30 01 , 2018 No Comments

[ Desh Bhagat Yadgar]…A large property set in sprawling grounds shaded by beautiful spreading treews, the Yadgar comprises a couple of auditoriums, a hostel of
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World Book Fair, 6-14 January 2018

30 01 , 2018 No Comments

Ever since the World Book Fair moved to January instead of the second week of February there has been a tremendous growth in the number
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Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah, The Mint ( 18 Nov 2017)

23 01 , 2018 No Comments

My interview with the fabulous Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was published in The Mint on 18 Nov 2017. Randa Abdel-Fattah’s debut novel, Does My Head Look Big In This? (2005),
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Julia Donaldson in India, Interaction with educators, New Delhi ( 19 January 2018)

19 01 , 2018 No Comments

Scholastic India organised a FABULOUS interaction led by Julia Donaldson’s with educators, teachers and librarians at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was a
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