St. James Church, restoration fundraiser

22 07 , 2017 No Comments
I received the following note from renowned historian and member of INTACH, Swapna Liddle.   St James Church is Delhi’s oldest church,
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Theme of independence in children’s literature in India

22 07 , 2017 No Comments
(The following article was commissioned in 2015 by Sarah Odedina for the Read Quarterly. With her permission I am posting it here.
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“Centaur” by Declan Murphy and Ami Rao

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to
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Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”

22 07 , 2017 No Comments
Award-winning writer and social activist Arundhati Roy’s second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is primarily about Anjum, a eunuch/hermaphrodite, and the relationships she
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Ashok Shahane and Arun Kolatkar

18 07 , 2017 No Comments
Speaking Tiger Books has recently published the South Asia edition of Anjali Nerlekar’s Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and bilingual literary culture . In the
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Maid in India

13 07 , 2017 No Comments
On 12 July 2017 a terrible incident happened in Noida, a suburb of Delhi. It involved the alleged illegal confinement overnight of
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Paro Anand interviewed by RJ Chris, Radio 94.3 FM, Delhi ( 5 July 2017)

12 07 , 2017 No Comments
Award-winning writer Paro Anand was interviewed by RJ Chris, Radio 94.3 FM, Delhi ( 5 July 2017). Paro Anand has been recently
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Krishna Sobti’s Zindaginama

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
On 23 September 2016, I wrote for Bookwitty about the new translation of Krishna Sobti’s Zindaginama and the legal tangle it had been embroiled
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Joshua Hammer’s The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
( My review of Joshua Hammer’s The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu was published on Bookwitty on 10 July 2017. I have c&p the text
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HarperCollins India celebrates 25 years of publishing with special editions of 25 of its most iconic books

11 07 , 2017 No Comments
HarperCollins India celebrates 25 years of publishing with special editions of 25 of its most iconic books HarperCollins Publishers India, which began its
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