Extract from “The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution”

08 02 , 2019 No Comments
The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution by Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury is an interesting tribute to a short lived but intense literary movement in West
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“The Cut Out Girl” by Bart van Es

06 02 , 2019 No Comments
…her memories are not as clear as I have made them. She remembers scraps — the landings, the sirens, the crouching down in the cellar,
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Women writers and science fiction

05 02 , 2019 No Comments
At Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, I moderated a discussion with two Indian women writers on their speculative fiction novels — Sadhna Shanker’s Ascendance and Priya Sarukkai
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On “Critical Thinking and Book Reviewing”

05 02 , 2019 No Comments
At Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, I moderated a fantastic panel discussion on “Critical Thinking and Book Reviewing”. The panelists were Ambassador Navtej Sarna, writer Alexander
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“Kitty’s War”

05 02 , 2019 No Comments
At Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, I was in conversation with author Daman Singh about her novel Kitty’s War at Jaipur Literature Festival 2019. It is historical
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Book Post 25: 20 January – 2 February 2019

03 02 , 2019 No Comments
Every Monday I post some of the books I have received in the previous week. This post will be in addition to my regular blog
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Kannan Sundaram, Publisher, Kalachuvadu’s intervention on copyright at Jaipur BookMark, Jan 2019

03 02 , 2019 No Comments
Kannan Sundaram, Publisher, Kalachuvadu, was invited by Neeta Gupta, Founder, Jaipur BookMark, to participate in the JBM Copyright Roundtable.T  It was held at Diggi Palace
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Elaine Pagels “Why Religion?: A Personal Story”

03 02 , 2019 No Comments
Renowned Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Elaine Pagels Why Religion? is a moving memoir. It is not only an account on the
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“The Journey Of Indian Publishing” by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

03 02 , 2019 No Comments
I recently contributed to How to Get Published in India edited by Meghna Pant. The first half is a detailed handbook by Meghna Pant on how to get published but the
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An extract from “Indian Genre Fiction”

03 02 , 2019 No Comments
Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Present Futures (eds. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani and Anwesha Maity) is a fascinating collection of essays. There are articles on popular fiction in late colonial
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