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

23 December 2010

Why Mythology lives on

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Mythology has always been a fascinating treasure for our filmmakers to delve into. What’s the lasting appeal of our epics, will mythology be...
21 December 2010

Women Unbound, Leading Ladies - Writing on women by women and interview with Sudha Menon

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It's not hard to see that women are increasingly dotting the professional arena, and even dominating the scene in specific industries...
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19 December 2010

The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay

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Author : Siddharth Dhanvant Shaghvi Pages : 348 Published in : 2010 Somewhere towards the middle of Siddharth Shanghvi's overwrit...
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18 December 2010

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Author : RamchandraGuha Pages : 537 Price : 799 Year of Publishing: 2010 Historian, author and columnist Ramchandra Guha’s recently publish...
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13 December 2010

Leela - A Patchwork Life

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Pages : 180 Price : Rs 450 Publishers : Penguin Vikings The faintest memory one has of Leela Naidu is that of Anuradha , the haunting,...
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08 December 2010

Somerset Maugham A Writer's Notebook

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Most of us who grow up with the vague idea of becoming writers sometime in the future or at least putting what one reads to good use profess...
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20 November 2010

Chetan's next book in Diwali 2011

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Chetan Bhagat who lent his support for the recently held literary fest in Mumbai-Pune announces his next book, besides talking about the mas...
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17 November 2010

The Kite Runner on stage

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The stage adaptation of The Kite Runner that was presented by a New York-based theatre group proved too loud and mocking to capture the ess...
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16 November 2010

Literature Live! - the new lit fest in Mumbai

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Following on the footsteps of the Jaipur lit fest, journalist-columnist Anil Dharker organised a four day event, called Literature Live in M...
11 November 2010

Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father

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First Published in 1995 Pages : 442 Genre : Memoir It was when Barack Obama became the first Black President of the Harvard New Rev...
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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