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Kurt Vonnegut and Salman Rushdie, on writing

‘Are you serious about this writing business?’ Vonnegut unexpectedly asked him as they sat drinking beers in the sunshine, and when he replied that he
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE Global Leadership Team, 1 July 2013 ( Press Release)

01 07 , 2013 No Comments

CEO MARKUS DOHLE ANNOUNCES PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP TEAM BERTELSMANN & PEARSON FINALIZE MERGER TRANSACTION (July 1, 2013)—The global senior executive team for Penguin
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Meghna Pant, “Happy Birthday! And other stories”

30 06 , 2013 No Comments

Sitting in the mall day after day, like mannequins on public display, we have become objects of ridicule, especially in the easy black-or-white judgement of
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Good Lit Versus Saleable Lit, PubSpeak, June 2013

30 06 , 2013 1 Comment

( My column, “PubSpeak”, for June 2013 is on What constitutes good literature? It is published in BusinessWorld online. The link is: http://www.businessworld.in/en/storypage/-/bw/good-lit-versus-saleable-lit/r964342.37528/page/0 . It
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Ambai “Fish in a Dwindling Lake”, translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom

26 06 , 2013 No Comments

( This was a review commissioned last year, but never published. So I am uploading it today on my blog. 26 June 2013) Fish in
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Neil Gaiman, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”

25 06 , 2013 No Comments

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense,
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Abdourahman A. Waberi, “Passage of Tears”

20 06 , 2013 No Comments

So I read Passage of Tears. My introduction to Abdourahman A. Waberi. What a writer! I am not sure if he worked on the English
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“Creative Writing in the Present Crisis” Jawaharlal Nehru, 1963

17 06 , 2013 1 Comment

( As the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru would have been the patron of Sahitya Akademi. The following are extracts from a speech he
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hOle Books, Duckbill Books

11 06 , 2013 1 Comment

In April 2013, Duckbill Books launched a new chapter book series in India called hOle books. ( Duckbill books was launched in 2012. It has
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Gouri Dange “More ABCs of Parenting”

11 06 , 2013 No Comments

There is a poem that I have pinned on my refrigerator. “Children Learn what they Live” by Dorothy Law Nolte. Here it is, copied from
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