30 May 2009

India on the 'write' path

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From its elitist bearings, Indian Writing In English has successfully expanded in the last few years, not only adding great variety to its l...
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23 May 2009

Bombay London New York

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  Author : Amitava Kumar Pages : 220 Price : 250 Year of Publishing : 2002 Publishers : Penguin This was my first introduction to...
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15 May 2009

Subhashitavali: An Anthology of Comic, Erotic and Other Verse

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Translated in English by N. D Haksar Publishers : Penguin Year of Publication : 2007 Price : 200 Rs Verses on marital sensuality The common ...
14 May 2009

The Storyteller's Tale

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Author : Omair Ahmad Pages: 122 Publishers : Penguin Price : 225 Telling tales On first glance, this is an easy book to like. It's all ...
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12 May 2009

Paulo Coelho’s The Winner Stands Alone

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Glam - 'Sham' Author: Paulo Coelho Pages : 373 Price : 325 Publishers : Harper Collins Personally, I’ve never been a fan of The Alc...
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02 May 2009

Some thoughts on 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'

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The Veil of Disenchantment Author : Khaled Hosseini Pages : 420 Publishers: Bloomsbury Genre : Epic- drama Price : 495 His stories stil...
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29 April 2009

Hindi Cinema - An Insider's View

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Author : Anil Saari Published In : 2009 Publishers : Oxford Price : 495 Genre : Essays Method In Madness Along with the fact that Hindi cine...
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26 March 2009

Mythology and cinema

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(In the photo) Kamal Haasan with filmmaker Mani Kaul The session on ‘Mythology and Cinema’ at the recently concluded FTII seminar was replet...
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Literature and Cinema - the question of adaptation

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FTII’s seminar on literature and cinema drew a fantastic response, with Javed Akhtar speech clearly standing out. “Literature in cinema can...
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28 February 2009

Past Perfect: A Passage To India

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From Darkness to Light Author : E M Forster Published In : 1924 Many critics believe that without A Passage To India , E M Forster w...
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23 February 2009

The Summer Of Cool

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Colony capers Author : Suchitra Krishnamoorthy Pages : 205 Publishers: Puffin Published in : 2009 Genre : Teen fiction After proving hers...