‘It isn’t autobiography, but it’s a daughter’s book in every way’: Madeleine Thien

03 11 , 2016 No Comments
(My interview with award-winning author Madeleine Thien was published in Scroll on 29 Oct 2016. Here is the original url: http://scroll.in/article/819960/it-isnt-autobiography-but-its-a-daughters-book-in-every-way-madeleine-thien . I have c&p the
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Literature and inclusiveness

02 11 , 2016 No Comments
 Nari Bhav, published by Niyogi Books, is a collection of essays exploring androgyny and female impersonation in India. These are fascinating insights by practitioners, interviews with
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Jaya’s newsletter – 1

27 10 , 2016 2 Comments
( As of this week I will be publishing a weekly newsletter on publishing and book news — international and local across languages. So if
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Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run”

26 10 , 2016 No Comments
Writing about yourself is a funny business. At the end of the day it’s just another story, the story you’ve chosen from the events of
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Janaki Ammal, Botanist

26 10 , 2016 No Comments
Janaki Ammal was a botanist known for her research in sugarcane. She was trained abroad, worked at Kew Gardens, London and returned to independent India
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American writer Paul Beatty brings back slavery and segregation to win the £50,000 Man Booker Prize

26 10 , 2016 No Comments
( My review of the Man Booker Prize 2016 winner The Sellout by Paul Beatty was published by Scroll on 26 Oct 2016, a day after the
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On “Dying” and “In Gratitude”

24 10 , 2016 No Comments
I’m writing a memoir, a form that in my mind plays hide-and-seek with the truth. It contains what I imagine and what I remember being
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Press Release: Dylan Prize judges announced

24 10 , 2016 No Comments
NEWS RELEASE Monday 24 October 2016 Judges for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize announced Distinguished novelists, professors, a poet, a historian and Head of
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On Chetan Bhagat’s “One Indian Girl”

13 10 , 2016 3 Comments
As a woman I seek justice in a patriarchal world.  Malika Amar Shaikh, I Want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir * Enough outrage has been expressed
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Devdutt Pattanaik’s “The Girl Who Chose”

07 10 , 2016 No Comments
Popular mythologist and storyteller Devdutt Pattanaik’s The Girl Who Chose is about the five choices Sita makes in the Ramayana. These choices have consequences. The beauty of
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