Vikram Seth, “Summer Requiem”

Vikram Seth’s poetry is exquisite. Always was and is. Years ago I recall my mother being handed a copy of The Golden Gate by a friend, a
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“Alice in Wonderland” continues to inspire readers across the world

( My article on Alice in Wonderland has been published in Hindustan Times popular and widely circulated Sunday supplement Brunch on 18 October 2015. It is a generous
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Literati: “Ink on the Brink”

(My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 17 October 2015) and will be in print ( 18 October 2015). Here is the
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Press Release: The Read Quarterly

   Neil Gaiman Kickstarter video and Eoin Colfer original fiction help launch The Read Quarterly. The Read Quarterly (TRQ, www.thereadquarterly.com), the magazine launching in January 2016
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Hanif Kureishi “Love + Hate”

The cultural collisions he [Powell] was afraid of are the affirmative side of globalisation. People do not love one another because they are ‘the same’,
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Hanya Yanagihara, “A Little Life”

“Contracts are not just sheets of paper promising you a job, or a house, or an inheritance: in its purest, truest, broadest sense, contracts govern
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Press Release: Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, Literary Director, Siyahi

From its inception I have been associated with Siyahi.  It has been a wonderful few years. It is not an easy decision to move on
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Perumal Murugan’s statement on being awarded the Samanvay Literature Prize

Kannan Sundaram, Publisher, Kalachuvadu posted the following message from writer Perumal Murugan this morning ( 6 Oct 2015) on his Facebook page. This is regarding
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A way ahead for words: Juggernaut

  (I interviewed Chiki Sarkar and Durga Raghunath, co-founders of Juggernaut. As Chiki put it across so well, “Durga is part of the change and I
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Chhimi Tenduf-La, “Panther”

Sri Lanka is such a beautiful country. We have it all; the beaches, the history, the hills, the heritage, the food, the smiling faces, the
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