Zainab Sulaiman, “Simply Nanju”

07 04 , 2016 No Comments
Zainab Sulaiman’s book Simply Nanju is about a young differently-abled boy and his classmates. All of them have a bunch of challenges but have caring teachers and
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Mary Beard, “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome”

05 04 , 2016 1 Comment
I have spent a good deal of the past fifty years of my life with these ‘first millennium Romans’. I have learnt their languages as
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Raduan Nassar, “A Cup of Rage” ( Transl. by Stefan Tobler)

02 04 , 2016 No Comments
“…I could’ve found plenty of reasons to trip her up, not that I was so naif I demanded coherence, I didn’t expect that of her,
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Ashwin Sanghi, “The Sialkot Saga”

31 03 , 2016 No Comments
Some animals hunt. Others hide. And a few hunt while they hide. Ashwin Sanghi’s latest novel The Sialkot Saga will be released on 5 April 2016. It
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World Theatre Day, 27 March 2016

28 03 , 2016 No Comments
It was World Theatre Day yesterday— 27 March 2016. I missed it. Nevertheless I am posting a short note about a couple of books published recently about
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Yann Martel, “The High Mountains of Portugal” and Kent Haruf, “Our Souls at Night”

24 03 , 2016 No Comments
Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one
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Molly Crabapple, “Drawing Blood”

16 03 , 2016 No Comments
Art is hope against cynicism, creation against entropy. To make art is an act of both love and defiance. Though I’m a cynic, I believe these
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Of two women short story writers — Diane Cook and Arlene Heyman

16 03 , 2016 No Comments
Over the past few days I have read two debut short story collections — Diane Cook’s powerfully imaginative and equally disconcerting Man vs Nature and Arlene Heyman’s
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Of picture books and chapter books

16 03 , 2016 No Comments
Every night Sarah and I have a bedtime ritual. She picks out a book and we read it together. Some of the titles we read
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Worldreader in India

13 03 , 2016 No Comments
  Worldreader is actively seeking strategic partnerships with publishers and authors in India. Today it is being accessed by over 6 million readers in 69
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