17 November 2007

Saawariya through White Nights

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Literary Blues Having read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights , I thought seeing Saawariya from a literary perspective might be an additio...
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30 October 2007

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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When sparks fly Author : Mohsin Hamid Genre : Fiction Price: 295 Published in : 2007 Price : 295 I've been trying to read some good Pa...
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24 October 2007

Romancing With Life, an autobiography

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A Guide to self-love Author : Dev Anand Pages : 417 Publisher : Penguin Published in : 2007 Love or hate this book by Dev Anand but if ther...
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13 October 2007

Stars From Another Sky

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Bombay Dreams Author : Saadat Hasan Manto Pages : 215 Genre : Film writing Just a few days ago, I read Ismat Chughtai's Lifting of The ...
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10 October 2007

An Outline Of The Republic

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View from the precipice Author : Siddhartha Deb Price : Rs 495 Pages : 320 Genre : Political thriller ' I was going the wrong way, he h...
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02 October 2007

Lady Susan: Jane Austen's first attempt at writing

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Coquette Caper Author : Jane Austen Published : 1871 (written much earlier) Pages : 80 pages One of Jane Austen's earliest work...
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26 September 2007

Lifting the Veil

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Author: Ismat Chughtai Publishers : Penguin Publishing Date : 2001 Price: Rs 250 Pages : 261 Genre : Short stories ' In my stories...
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13 September 2007

The Hungry Tide

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Author : Amitav Ghosh Page s: 403 Year of Publica tion: 2004 Publishers : HarperCollins Price : Rs 250 Element encounter Th...
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23 August 2007

Gifted

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Author : Nikita Lalwani Published in :2007 Publisher : Penguin Pages: 272 Price : 395 Genre : Fiction With quite an uninspiring title and z...
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20 August 2007

The Namesake

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In nameless conflict Author : Jhumpa Lahiri Price: 395 Pages : 291 Published in : 2003 Publishers: Harper Collins It would only be fair to...
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08 August 2007

Cinnamon Gardens

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Author : Shyam Selvadurai Peguin: Peguin Price: Rs 325 Pages : 389 Genre : Fiction  Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy remains my most...
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31 July 2007

Beastly tales from here & there

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Author : Vikram Seth Pages: 124 Price : 250 Genre : Verse Publication :Penguin India Publishing Date: 1992 (first) Fun with fables I...
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27 July 2007

The Last Mughal

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Author : William Dalrymple Publishers: Penguin Viking Published In: 2006 Price : Rs 695 Pages: 586 Genre: Historical BY Sandhya Iyer Last...
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20 July 2007

Half Of A Yellow Sun

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Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher : Harper Collins Prize : Rs 250 Date of Publishing : 2006 Genre : War drama ‘I wrote this...
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