All India Radio / historic moment

25 11 , 2021 No Comments
This morning I finished recording a panel discussion on “Children’s literature in India” at All India Radio, the national radio channel. After the fabulously animated
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Shikhandin “After Grief”

24 11 , 2021 No Comments
Shikhandin never ceases to amaze me. She writes. That’s it. She is unafraid of experimenting with forms that are most suitable to her expression. She
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Jonathan Franzen “Crossroads”

04 10 , 2021 No Comments
I have liked Jonathan Franzen’s writings ever since I began reading his essays in the National Geographic and some other random places. Also, my admiration
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In conversation with 2021 International Booker Prize winners David Diop and Anna Moschovakis, 3 Sept 2021

27 09 , 2021 No Comments
On 3 Sept 2021, I moderated a conversation with the 2021 International Booker winners David Diop and his translator from French to English, Anna Moschovakis
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Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s “Lahore”, part of the Partition Trilogy

01 09 , 2021 No Comments
…If religion was the basis of nationality, why there would be multiple nations in India. These nations exist in most villages, in varying proportions, with
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“A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir” by Rodrigo Garcia

18 08 , 2021 No Comments
In March 2014, Gabriel Garcia Marquez came down with a cold. He was eighty-seven-years-old. His wife was not hopeful about him surviving and phoned her sons, based in Los
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Essay on Independence Day literature, 15 Aug 2021

16 08 , 2021 No Comments
15 Aug 2021 is the 74th Independence Day of India. In 1947, the subcontinent gained its independence from the British. On that day, two nations
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Craig Storti’s “The Hunt for Mount Everest”

16 08 , 2021 No Comments
2021 marks the centenary year of the first Everest expedition. The height of the mountain had been first measured in 1850. It took another seventy-one
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Tishani Doshi’s “A God at the Door”

16 08 , 2021 No Comments
Today, my eleven-year-old daughter woke up much earlier than her usual time. She had had a nightmare. She dreamt that she was in 1939 Nazi
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Vibha Batra’s “Pinkoo Shergill”

04 08 , 2021 No Comments
This book is utterly perfect! In terms of story, plot, pacing and literary craftsmanship. It makes one chuckle with delight as the antics are so
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