07 January 2012

Somerset Maugham's Liza Of Lambeth

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Liza Of Lambeth (1897) is perhaps Maugham's only novel which I don't have the heart to revisit. Not because it is poor, but because ...
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13 December 2011

Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed

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Haven't we all at some point typed   an intimate question on Google search for user responses.   This mini research offers ...
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04 October 2011

R K Narayan's The Dark Room and The World Of Nagaraj

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Very few readers will dispute the talent that R K Narayan was. He was the first Indian writer in English to acquire such a name for...
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17 July 2011

Priya - Namita Gokhale

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Author : Namita Gokhale Pages : 195 Price : 350 Publishers : Penguin This is the first book I took up to review by Namita Gokhale, better re...
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06 July 2011

The theme of retribution in Delhi Belly

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The fact that this Akshat Varma penned script, stylishly directed by Abhinay Deo is a tightly-woven, smartly executed one is something all r...
21 June 2011

Chinese Whiskers

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Friends, this is a piece I did for Biblio, a one of its kind literary magazine in India - published from Delhi. I consider it a fairly impor...
16 June 2011

A longish essay on Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic 1852 novel is best remembered for its emotional, conscientious appeal for the abolishment of slavery. Th...
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09 June 2011

First Day First Show:Anupama Chopra

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Author : Anupama Chopra Pages : 376 Publisher : Penguin Price : 499 It didn't seem like the wisest thing to do when a 20 something Anup...
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27 May 2011

City Of Djinns

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Author : William Dalrymple Pages : 339 Published in the year : 1994 Publishers : Penguin Genre : Non-fiction/ Memoir For Dalrymple, who has ...
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20 May 2011

Tagore's Naukadubi

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Kashmakash(dubbed) Director: Rituparno Ghosh Starring: Jishu Sengupta,Raima Sen, Riya Sen, Prosenjit, Stars: *** In times when intelligent a...
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14 May 2011

Gained in translation

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In a pleasant new development in the last few years, the Marathi section at Pune's book stores has been teeming with translations of int...
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02 May 2011

The Vague Woman's Handbook by Devapriya Roy

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Author : Devapriya Roy Pages : 343 pages Price : 199 Publishers : Harper Collins Year of Publishing : 2011 Devapriya Roy's eff...
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