08 April 2008

Interview: Devyani Saltzman

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'I think it's important to never be too literal in an adaptation' Devyani Saltzman is the wonderfully talented daughter of filmm...
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05 April 2008

India in Slow Motion

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Ground reality Author: Mark Tully and Gillian Wright Price: 450 Published In: 2001 Publishers: Penguin Reading the first fe...
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27 March 2008

Entry From Backside Only; hazaar fundas of Indian English

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We are like this only! Author: Binoo K John Publishers: Penguin Published in : 2007 Price: 95 There are perhaps several things to disa...
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13 March 2008

The Japanese Wife

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Author : Kunal Basu Price : 395 Publisher : Harper Collins Spaced-OUT From the moment Aparna Sen announced that she would be making a litera...
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18 February 2008

The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone

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A pocketful of India Author: Shashi Tharoor Pages : 380 Publishers: Penguin Price : 495 This book by former under-secretary general of th...
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12 February 2008

Interview with Shashi Tharoor

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A Riot of words  In an exclusive interview, diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor talks to Sandhya Iyer on what it means to ...
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02 February 2008

Book Review: The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte

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Author : Daphne du Maurier Who really wrote Wuthering Heights? The popular belief of course is that Emily Bronte wrote this 19th century c...
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31 January 2008

Interview: Sonja Chandrachud

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Taking fancy to fantasy Sonja Chandrachud , whose new book on the wizard world – The Potion of Eternity, released in Pune recently says how...
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14 January 2008

Shakespeare, Bill Bryson

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The Good, Bard and the Ugly Author: Bill Bryson Publication date: 2007 Publishers : Penguin Price: 325 Pages: 196 The obvious question t...
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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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