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Naomi Wood, “Mrs. Hemingway”

One afternoon she finds a copy of Ernest’s tribute to the president. Ernest had greeted the request from Washington with something close to cold fright.
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A conversation with Prajwal Parajuly

04 03 , 2014 No Comments

I first heard about Prajwal Parajuly in winter 2012. He had the book launch of his short stories, The Gurkha’s Daughter, in December 2012. He was
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Maria Aurora Couto “Filomena’s Journeys”

04 03 , 2014 No Comments

Filomena loved the house, and the company of her avo and sisters and the cook and maids. It was just that the strict discipline
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Gulabi Gang

27 02 , 2014 No Comments

‘Freedom is when I have my own money, but how do I do that?’ she wondered. ( p.84 Pink Sari Revolution, Amana Fontanella-Khan) When the Pink
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Paulo Coelho moves to Penguin Random House in India, the UK and Australia

27 02 , 2014 No Comments

For immediate release Thursday 27th February 2014 Paulo Coelho moves to Penguin Random House in India, the UK and Australia Susan Sandon,
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Good Books Guide for children, NBT and PAG-E

26 02 , 2014 1 Comment

Ever so often I am asked by parents, educators and schools to recommend books that are age-appropriate for children. Every time I put together a
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Wild Girls, Wicked Words

26 02 , 2014 1 Comment

At the recently concluded World Book Fair, New Delhi, Kannan Sundaram of Kalachuvadu publications gave me a copy of Wild Girls, Wicked Words. An anthology of
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Meena Kandaswamy

24 02 , 2014 No Comments

Meena Kandasamy is a poet with two collections to her discredit: Touch and Ms Militancy. Her first novel The Gypsy Goddess releases next month. Reproduced
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Child sexuality

24 02 , 2014 1 Comment

“A discussion of childhood sexuality is further complicated by our definitions of the very term, childhood. When does it end? Is a sixteen-year-old a child?
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( My column, “PubSpeak”, in BusinessWorld online focuses on the Wendy Doniger book controversy. Here is the url to it: http://businessworld.in/news/economy/total-recall/1266222/page-1.html . ) On 11
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