Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”

22 07 , 2017 1 Comment
Award-winning writer and social activist Arundhati Roy’s second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is primarily about Anjum, a eunuch/hermaphrodite, and the relationships she forges over many
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Ashok Shahane and Arun Kolatkar

18 07 , 2017 1 Comment
Speaking Tiger Books has recently published the South Asia edition of Anjali Nerlekar’s Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and bilingual literary culture . In the long term it
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Maid in India

13 07 , 2017 No Comments
On 12 July 2017 a terrible incident happened in Noida, a suburb of Delhi. It involved the alleged illegal confinement overnight of a maid, Zohra,
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Paro Anand interviewed by RJ Chris, Radio 94.3 FM, Delhi ( 5 July 2017)

12 07 , 2017 No Comments
Award-winning writer Paro Anand was interviewed by RJ Chris, Radio 94.3 FM, Delhi ( 5 July 2017). Paro Anand has been recently conferred the Sahitya
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Krishna Sobti’s Zindaginama

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
On 23 September 2016, I wrote for Bookwitty about the new translation of Krishna Sobti’s Zindaginama and the legal tangle it had been embroiled in for some
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Joshua Hammer’s The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
( My review of Joshua Hammer’s The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu was published on Bookwitty on 10 July 2017. I have c&p the text below. )  A
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HarperCollins India celebrates 25 years of publishing with special editions of 25 of its most iconic books

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
HarperCollins India celebrates 25 years of publishing with special editions of 25 of its most iconic books HarperCollins Publishers India, which began its journey in 1992
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Diksha Basu’s “The Windfall”

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
“How come Americans get called expats but if we move to America, we’re called immigrants?” Mrs Jha asked.  Diksha Basu’s debut novel The Windfall is about Mr
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There’s no GST on books. And yet books will become more expensive: Suppliers will have to pay GST, and that will raise the cost of producing books

08 07 , 2017 1 Comment
On 1 July 2017  the Government of India replaced the existing tax system with Goods and Services Tax or GST. I wrote in Scroll the
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“When I Hit You” by Meena Kandaswamy

05 07 , 2017 No Comments
When I Hit You by Meena Kandaswamy is primarily a memoir about her four months as a married woman. At one level it is an account
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