“Love” by by Hanne Ørstavik and translated by Martin Aitken

05 12 , 2019 No Comments
The publisher, Stefan Tobler, very kindly sent a reading copy of the award-winning Love that I read in one fell swoop. I could not put
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Book Post 51: 12-24 Nov 2019

25 11 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 51 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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Jaipur BookMark — “Where books mean business!”

25 11 , 2019 1 Comment
Jaipur BookMark is a critical component of Jaipur Literature Festival . The tag line for JBM is “where books mean business”. It is certainly one
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Book Post 50: 3 – 11 Nov 2019

12 11 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 50 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 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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