The art of biography, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ken Krimstein

08 11 , 2019 No Comments
Earlier this year I read two brilliant books. Both happened to be biographies. One is the long, detailed biography of Thomas Cromwell: A Life by
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On Gael Faye’s “Small Country”

08 11 , 2019 No Comments
I read Gael Faye’s extraordinary Small Country earlier this year. It left a powerful impact upon me and months later, after much other reading, I
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen on “Women retelling the Ramayana”

08 11 , 2019 No Comments
It is sad to hear of eminent litterateur and academician Nabaneeta Dev Sen‘s passing away. She had been suffering from cancer for a while. She
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“The Jamun Tree” by Krishan Chander

08 11 , 2019 No Comments
Or listen to Yasmeen Rashidi, The Wire, narrate it: https://thewire.in/books/watch-icse-drops-krishan-chanders-1960s-story-which-questions-centralised-governance
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“Asterix and the Chieftain’s daughter”

06 11 , 2019 No Comments
Asterix and the Chieftain’s daughter is the 38th story in the series. It is written by Jean-Yves Ferri and drawn by Didier Conrad, translated by
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Interview with editor and translator, Mini Krishnan

05 11 , 2019 No Comments
Mini Krishnan worked with Macmillan India (1980-2000) and with Oxford University Press (2001-2018) to source, edit and promote translations into English of works by Indian
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Edoardo Albinati’s “The Catholic School”

03 11 , 2019 No Comments
My review of Edoardo Albinati’s award-winning novel The Catholic School was published in The Hindu Literary Review on Sunday, 3 Nov 2019. It was publishing
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Book Post 49: 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2019

03 11 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 49 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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The brave new mediocre: ‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood reviewed by Anil Menon

30 10 , 2019 2 Comments
Anil Menon wrote a fantastic review of Booker winner 2019 Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments for the Hindu. The review was published in print on Sunday,
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“Malamander” by Thomas Taylor

29 10 , 2019 No Comments
Malamander by author and illustrator, Thomas Taylor is a fantastical book about two (approx.) 12yo — Violet Parma and Herbert Lemon. The unlikeliest team who
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