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Masha Gessen ( from The Economic Times, 31 Oct 2013)

( Last year I read Masha Gessen’s book on Putin- The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. It was a powerful book
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Guest Post: Valerie Laws, writer

27 10 , 2013 No Comments

( Valerie Laws and I are Facebook friends. We got chatting about publishing and literature. The result was she wrote a guest post for my
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David Davidar, Publisher, Aleph on “what makes a writer successful?”

26 10 , 2013 1 Comment

( This is an extract from an interview published in the Shillong Times, 20 Oct 2013. Sambha Lamarr, creative director of Shillong CALM Festival, speaks to publisher-novelist
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The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014 – longlist

21 10 , 2013 No Comments

15 BOOKS MAKE IT TO THE DSC PRIZE 2014 LONGLIST New Delhi, October 21, 2013: The longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
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Eleanor Catton’s win celebrates the importance of literary craft and content

19 10 , 2013 No Comments

( My article on the Man Booker Prize 2013 has been published today in the Op Ed page of the Hindu, 19 Oct 2013. Here is
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Alice Munro and the short story, a comment

10 10 , 2013 No Comments

‘I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you
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The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin

09 10 , 2013 No Comments

At a little over a 100 pages The Testament of Mary is the slimmest novel on the ManBooker Prize shortlist. In this novella Mary, mother of
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Prajwal Parajuly’s “The Gurkha’s Daughter” on the 2013 Dylan Thomas shortlist

07 10 , 2013 No Comments

Breaking news! Prajwal Parajuly is on the shortlist for the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize for literature. The Gurkha’s Daughter is his debut collection of short stories. At £30,000 it
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Ayana Mathis, “Twelve Tribes of Hattie”

05 10 , 2013 No Comments

( My review of Ayana Mathis’s Twelve Tribes of Hattie has been published in the Hindu Literary Review. Online on 5 Oct 2013 and in print on
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“The Lowland”, Jhumpa Lahiri

03 10 , 2013 No Comments

The most ordinary details of his life which would have made no impression on a girl from Calcutta, were what made him distinctive to her.
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