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Sunjeev Sahota, “The Year of the Runaways”

‘It really is a pathetic thing. To mourn a past you never had. Don’t you think?’ p.216 Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways is his second
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Twinkle Khanna and Brigid Keenan

21 08 , 2015 No Comments

I have had immense good fortune of reading Twinkle Khanna’s Mrs Funnybones and Brigid Keenan’s Packing Up back-to-back. Mrs Funnybones is Twinkle Khanna’s debut as an author. It is based
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Press Release: Rupa Publications turns 80!

17 08 , 2015 No Comments

INDIA’S LARGEST INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING HOUSE TURNS 80! Rupa Publications turns 80 this August, and reiterates its continuing commitment to books, authors and the industry. Rupa
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Literati – “The library as social experience” ( 16 August 2015)

15 08 , 2015 No Comments

My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 15 August 2015) and will be in print ( 16 August 2015). Here is
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Literati – “The Critic” ( 19 July 2015)

15 08 , 2015 No Comments

My monthly column, Literati, in the Hindu Literary Review was published online ( 18 July 2015) and was in print ( 19 July 2015). Here is the
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Abeer Y. Hoque “The Lovers and the Leavers”

14 08 , 2015 No Comments

But it hadn’t been the smell of Indian food that had offended Sailan. It was Appa. Gabriel had never considered their father’s post-work rituals consciously
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Alex Bellos, “Alex Through the Looking Glass”

13 08 , 2015 No Comments

I spent the better part of a morning reading bestselling author Alex Bellos’s absolutely delightful book Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and
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“A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces”, an interview with David Davidar, Kitaabnama

11 08 , 2015 No Comments

An interview with writer, publisher and anthologist, David Davidar regarding his new book, A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces. It is a collection of 39 short stories
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Anis Shivani’s “Karachi Raj”

29 07 , 2015 No Comments

Anis Shivani has been a writer for many years. He is known as a short story writer and a poet. Karachi Raj is his debut novel.
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Susan Abulhawa, “The Blue between Sky and Water”

28 07 , 2015 No Comments

The Blue Between Sky and Water was my first introduction to Susan Abulhawa’s writing. It is about four generations of a family but focuses primarily
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