The Summing Up

If you are aroused by the ring of words, the turn of a phrase, by a great epigram, and the inexhaustible treasure of ideas contained in books, then you might just find yourself at home here

29 October 2010

Somerset Maugham's Theatre and Being Julia

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Somerset Maugham before he turned into a full fledged novelist was an illustrious playwright. And even though he never got too involved in t...
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16 September 2010

Thoughts on Of Human Bondage

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Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (1915) - his most intimate and autobiographical ...
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07 September 2010

Review: The Crimson Throne

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Author : Sudhir Kakar Publishers : Penguin Published in : 2010 Sudhir Kakar's semi-fictional period novel, The Crimson Throne tak...
10 August 2010

Agatha Christie's Absent In the Spring

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Agatha Christie we all know as the queen of mystery novels. However, the more unknown fact about her is that she wrote six novels on love an...
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19 July 2010

The Counsel Of Strangers

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Author : Gouri Dange Pages :169 Price: 250 Publishers : OMO Pune, which cannot yet boast of any English-language writer of repute, might ju...
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06 July 2010

Balancing Act by Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy

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Author : Meera Goldbole Krishnamurthy Pages : 236 Publishers : Zubaan, Penguin Price : 250 Motherhood is easily one of the most beautiful an...
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16 June 2010

My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: the life and times of a musician

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Author : Vikram Sampath Pages : 232 Price : 595 Publishers : Rupa To begin with, you're not sure what to expect from a book about a song...
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08 June 2010

Kaifi & I - Review

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Author : Shaukat Azmi (translated by Nasreen Rehman) Pages : 158 Publishers : Zubaan Price : Rs 295 Kaifi & I is a memoir by Shaukat Az...
25 May 2010

William Dalrymple's Nine Lives

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Author : William Dalrymple Pages : 260 Genre : Travelogue Nine Lives: in search of the sacred in modern India One knows William Dalrymple as...
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20 May 2010

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and screen adaptation

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Having a Wilde time! Set amidst the artistocratic excess of the late Victorian era, The Importance of Being Earnest remains one of Ocsar Wi...
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29 April 2010

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's One Amazing Thing

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Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Pages : 224 Price : 450 Publishers : Hamish Hamilton (Peguin Imprint) Expatriate writer Chitra Banerjee ...
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27 April 2010

Monkey-man and interview with Usha K R

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Author : Usha K. R Pages : 259 Price : 299 Publishers : Penguin Published in the year : 2010 After her stunning last book, A Girl And A Rive...
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