J.R.R. Tolkien, legal battle with Warner Bros and two new books

04 07 , 2017 No Comments
On 3 July 2017 news broke that HarperCollins and Tolkien estate have settled a £62m or $80 million lawsuit against Warner Bros, filed in November
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Robert Seethaler’s “A Whole Life” translated by Charlotte Collins

03 07 , 2017 No Comments
One of the most beautiful books I read in 2016 was German writer Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life translated by Charlotte Collins. It is a delicate story
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National Geographics and audio books

03 07 , 2017 No Comments
For many decades my paternal grandparents would subscribe to the National Geographic magazine. Given that they were tucked away in a small town, Meerut, it
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“Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers On The Decision Not To Have Kids”

29 06 , 2017 No Comments
When I think of the people among whom I grew up, it’s as I were looking back not to fifty but more than a hundred
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David J. Garrow “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama”

28 06 , 2017 No Comments
Pulitzer-prize winning biographer David J. Garrow spent nearly nine years researching and writing Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. Garrow interviewed more than a 1000
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Marvel books

27 06 , 2017 No Comments
Marvel comics were launched in America in 1939. According to Wikipedia: Martin Goodman, a pulp magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in
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Henry Marsh’s “Admissions”

26 06 , 2017 1 Comment
The  brain cannot feel pain:  pain is a sensation created within the brain in response to  electrochemical signals to it from the nerve endings in
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Haruki Murakami’s “Men Without Women”

26 06 , 2017 No Comments
The new collection of  short stories by Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women, is delightfully unpredictable and mesmerisingly insightful. The stories are inevitably from a male
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Ravi Singh’s speech introducing Ruskin Bond, 20 June 2017

26 06 , 2017 No Comments
On 20 June 2017 Ruskin Bond’s autobiography Lone Fox Dancing was released at Taj Man Singh Hotel, New Delhi. He was in conversation with noted journalist Nalin
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Paro Anand wins the Sahitya Akademi Puraskar for “Wild Child”

26 06 , 2017 No Comments
In 2010 well-known children’s writer Paro Anand and I began working on a collection of stories. I had commissioned the manuscript as a publishing consultant
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