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“The Serpent’s Secret” by Sayantani Dasgupta

“Dark energy. It’s the energy that helps the universe keep expanding. You might call it a part of the universal life force.” That sounded vaguely
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Scholastic Encyclopaedia Of Dinosaurs

30 05 , 2018 No Comments

Scholastic Encyclopaedia Of Dinosaurs is a visual delight apart from beingpacked with information. The well-recognised dinosaurs such as Triceratops ( Three-horned face), Mamenchisaurus, Kentrosaurus ( Spiked
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#Horror

29 05 , 2018 No Comments

#Horror ( Amazon and Flipkart) is an anthology of horror stories for middle grade. It consists of various young writers most of whom debut with
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Anuradha Roy’s “All The Lives We Have Never Lived”

27 05 , 2018 1 Comment

I read award-winning writer Anuradha Roy‘s stunning new novel All The Lives We Have Never Lived which is set during the second world war in British
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Michael Ondaatje’s “Warlight”

20 05 , 2018 No Comments

( On Sunday, 27 May 2018, the online news portal Scroll published my review of Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight. Here is the original link. ) You
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An interview with Arjun Raj Gaind, author of “The Maharaja Mysteries”

12 05 , 2018 1 Comment

An interview with Arjun Raj Gaind, author of “The Maharaja Mysteries” — A Very Pukka Murder and Death At The Durbar. Two delightful books, set
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Fostering a reading culture / Happy Mother’s Day!

11 05 , 2018 No Comments

(An extended version of this article was published on Bibliobibuli, my blog on Times of India, on Saturday 12 May 2018. Bibliobibuli focuses on publishing
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“Fooled You!” by Debashish Majumdar

11 05 , 2018 No Comments

Very early in childhood children are teased lovingly about “April Fool’s Day”. Quite soon tiddlers have a Pavlovian reaction to any incredible news being said
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Wendy Doniger’s “Beyond Dharma” ( an extract)

09 05 , 2018 No Comments

One of the world’s most acclaimed and engaging scholars of Hinduism Wendy Doniger’s presents in her new book Beyond Dharma a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts
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Of ghosts, musicians and children

08 05 , 2018 No Comments

In an interesting coincidence two stories I read recently — Michael Morpurgo’s beautiful Lucky Button and the short story “They call me Ramatanu” in Subhadra Sengupta’s A Bagful
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