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Salman Rushdie “Victory City”

This is utterly fascinating. Without letting on about the story, the fact that the list of acknowledgments is actually a bibliography in Salman Rushdie’s Victory
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TOI Bookmark podcasts

09 02 , 2023 No Comments

In the middle of December 2022, TOI Bookmark, weekly podcasts on books and literature was launched by The Times of India (TOI) . TOI has
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Scholastic Writers Academy

07 02 , 2023 No Comments

During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Scholastic Writers Academy was launched. I conceptualised the programme for Scholastic India. These are online workshops of 20 hours, 10
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Maggie O’Farrell’s “The Marriage Portrait”

31 01 , 2023 No Comments

…all of a sudden, in this unfamiliar room, something descends upon her. It has the quality of a vision but it is frailer than that,
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Aleksander Hemon’s “The World and All That It Holds”

30 01 , 2023 No Comments

My Padri Avram used to say that Heaven is a revolving wheel, Pinto said. Even if you never move from your place, everything around you
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Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan’s school visit, 27 Jan 2023

29 01 , 2023 No Comments

On 27 Jan 2023, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan visited my daughter’s school. It was an author interaction organised for eighth graders. Apparently, the conversation revolved around
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NBT Publishing Course, 28 Jan 2023

28 01 , 2023 No Comments

Today, I delivered to two lectures at the National Book Trust, India Publishing Course. NBT is under the Union Ministry of Education. It was established
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Buku Sarkar, “Not Quite a Disaster After All”

26 01 , 2023 No Comments

Buku Sarkar‘s Not Quite a Disaster After All ( HarperCollins India) is a collection of six interlinked stories or six vignettes, if you will. The
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Mariana Enriquez’s “Our Share of the Night”, translated by Megan McDowell

24 01 , 2023 No Comments

[ I posted this on Facebook on 20 Sept 2022] Our Share of Night is an extraordinary book by Mariana Enriquez. It is partially set
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Hernan Diaz “Trust”