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Neamat Imam, “The Black Coat”

The language of rebellion is simple whereas the language of governance is very intricate. ( p.148) Neamat Imam’s debut novel The Black Coat is about newly independent Bangladesh
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Akhil Sharma, “Family Life”

23 06 , 2014 No Comments

Before we came to America, I had never read a book just to read it. When I began doing so, at first, whatever I read
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Some links from JLF 2013 and 2014, worth revisiting

17 06 , 2014 No Comments

Here are some links from the Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 and 2014 available on YouTube that I have enjoyed watching. Enjoy! 17 June 2014 Caravaggio
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Angarey and the Progressive Writers Movement

17 06 , 2014 No Comments

This year has been marked by the publication of Rakhshanda Jalil’s thesis by OUP – A Literary History of the Progressive Writer’s Movement in Urdu and
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The spirit of fiction, Emma Donoghue talks about her new novel, “Frog Music”

08 06 , 2014 No Comments

( My interview with Emma Donoghue was published in the Hindu Literary Review online edition yesterday. 7 June 2014. An edited version has been published
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Sean McMeekin “July 1914: Countdown to War”

03 06 , 2014 No Comments

When we studied about WWI as children, our school textbooks would dismiss in one sentence the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
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