05 September 2009

Warming up to Wodehouse

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It's been ages since I picked up a P G Wodehouse book to read. It must be in school that I read Thank You Jeeves and I remember it was...
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01 September 2009

Arzee - The Dwarf

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Author : Chandrahas Choudhury Pages : 184 Publishers: Harper CollinsPublished year: 2009 Price: 325 The title of the book intrigues you a...
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23 August 2009

Past perfect: George Eliot's Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe

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Author : George Eliot Pages : 212 Written in : 1860-61 Lost and found Every now and then, when I feel underwhelmed with contemporary works ...
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19 August 2009

Review: The Story Of A Widow

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Author : Musharraf Ali Farooqi Pages : 249 Price: 495 Publishers : Picador Published In : 2008 It was with some enthusiasm tha...
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15 August 2009

Ruskin Bond's Notes from a Small Room

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Author : Ruskin Bond Page s: 171 Publishers : Penguin Publishing date : 2009 Price : 225 A room with a view Moments of inspiration come to ...
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12 August 2009

Neil Simon's Plaza Suite - a play I adore

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One play that I'm particularly fond of happens to be Plaza Suite, written by American writer Neil Simon in his collection of plays...
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04 August 2009

Book review: English, August

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Author : Upamanyu Chatterjee Pages: 288 Year Of Publishing : 1988 Price : 295 To be or not to be I know English, August came a long time ...
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02 August 2009

The Painted Veil

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The Home-coming Author : W. Somerset Maugham Pages : 213 Publishers : Random House Year Of Publishing : 1925 What do you do when ...
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13 July 2009

Book Review: The Anger Of Aubergines

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A slice of life Author : Bulbul Sharma Pages : 151 pages Publishers : Kali Year Of Publishing : 1997 Price : 150 This wasn't a book ver...
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30 June 2009

The Age of Shiva

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Author : Manil Suri Pages : 454 Publisher: Bloombury Price : 399 Published in : 2008 First things first. I think Manil Suri has a tremendou...
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24 June 2009

Book Review: Home

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Author : Manju Kapur Publishers : Random House Year Of Publishing : 2006 Price : 395 Pages : 337 Family Matters In this story set i...
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15 June 2009

Brief thoughts on Anita Desai's Diamond Dust

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Title: Diamond Dust and Other Stories Published in : 2001 Genre : Short Stories Pages : 224 Lot of imagery, lyricism in the langu...
07 June 2009

Strike

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The Tamil ticket Author : Anand Mahadevan Publishers : Penguin Price : 199 Pages : 274 One of the most striking aspects about Strike is...
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04 June 2009

The Thing Around Your Neck

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The choke within Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pages: 218 Publishers : Harper Collins Price : 299 My initiation into African literatu...