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An interview with Devashish Makhija

Devashish Makhija’s debut collection of stories, Forgetting, has been published by HarperCollins India. It consists of 49 “stories”. After reading the book, I posed some
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Literati – “Opportunities in Publishing” ( 1 March 2015)

01 03 , 2015 No Comments

My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published in print ( 1 March 2015). I am c&p the text below. Opportunities in Publishing In
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Andrew Hodges, “Alan Turing: The Enigma”

27 02 , 2015 1 Comment

Nowadays it is perhaps taken rather for granted that computers can replace other machines, whether for record-keeping, photography, graphic design, printing, mail, telephony, or music,
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Anthony Doerr, “All the Light We Cannot See”

27 02 , 2015 2 Comments

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is set in Sant Malo, France during the second world war. It is primarily about three people — Marie-Laure LeBlanc,
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Parvati Sharma, “Close to Home”

10 02 , 2015 No Comments

Over time, as she began to frequent queer groups and become embroiled in queer debates, she was forced to admit that such daydreams were bourgeois,
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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar “The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey”

10 02 , 2015 No Comments

“…We are living in a free country now. Don’t we have the right to demand what is good for us?” ( p.71) A debut writer inevitably
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Paula Hawkins, “The Girl on the Train”

09 02 , 2015 No Comments

It is a thriller that has caught everyone’s imagination. It was released on 13 January 2015 but has rapidly climbed all charts for print and
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Ali Akbar Natiq, “What will you give for this beauty?”

09 02 , 2015 No Comments

What will you give for this beauty? is Ali Akbar Natiq’s debut collection of short stories. It is set in the Punjab countryside with tales about
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David Duchovny, “Holy Cow”

05 02 , 2015 No Comments

…My editor told me if I add some sex, curses, and maybe some potty humour, this will sell better to my “audience”. I don’t know
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“The prize is right?” ( 1 February 2015)

31 01 , 2015 No Comments

( My lead article in The Hindu on literary prizes in India was published online on 31 January 2015 and in print on 1 February
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