Jin Yong or Louis Cha, “Legends of the Condor Heroes”

22 02 , 2019 No Comments
Jin Yong was the nom de plume of Louis Cha. He is considered the maestro of the wuxia genre, a form of martial arts-heavy fantasy
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Of Nayantara Sahgal’s “The Fate of Butterflies” and Toni Morrison’s “Mouth Full of Blood”

22 02 , 2019 No Comments
When two extraordinary writers Nayantara Sahgal (b. 1927) and Toni Morrison (b.1931) put pen to paper it is worth reading every single word they spell
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An extract from Radha Kumar’s “Paradise at War”

22 02 , 2019 No Comments
Dr Radha Kumar is a historian and a policy analyst who has written several well-regarded books on ethnic conflict and feminism. She was one of
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An extract from Snigdha Poonam’s “Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World”

21 02 , 2019 No Comments
Today, 21 February, is International Mother Language Day as declared by the United Nations. In India the dialects and languages spoken change every 20 kms.
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“My Father’s Garden” by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

15 02 , 2019 No Comments
…on each trip home, I found my father working unrelentingly in his garden. And under his loving care, it flourished more than ever. A hibiscus
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Vikram Paralkar’s “The Afflictions”

14 02 , 2019 No Comments
Hematologist and witer Vikram Paralkar’s The Afflictions is a slim book with a list of diseases to be found in the Encyclopaedia Medicinae. The Encyclopaedia comprises three hundred
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Juergen Boos, President/CEO, Frankfurt Book Fair/ Frankfurter Buchmesse, on “Freedom to Publish”, 23 Jan 2019, Jaipur Bookmark

14 02 , 2019 No Comments
Juergen Boos, President/CEO, Frankfurt Book Fair/ Frankfurter Buchmesse, delivered the inaugural speech at the Jaipur Bookmark. It is the business conclave that is inaugurated the
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Vera Michalski-Hoffman’s keynote address at Jaipur Bookmark, 25 Jan 2019

12 02 , 2019 No Comments
The Jaipur Bookmark is a business conclave held during the Jaipur Literature Festival. In fact it begins a day before the litfest is inuagurated. It
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Saikat Majumdar’s “The Scent of God”

11 02 , 2019 No Comments
Academic and writer Saikat Majumdar’s novel The Scent of God  is set in an elite all-boy’s boarding school run by a Hindu monastic order in late-twentieth century India. On
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Book Post 26: 3 – 9 February 2019

11 02 , 2019 No Comments
Every Monday I post some of the books I have received in the previous week. This post will be in addition to my regular blog
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