The Road To Nowhere
The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy Mc Carthy’s new masterpiece is a road trip, albeit a scary and nightmarish one, by a father and his young son as they trudge …
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The Road to Nowhere
The Road By Cormac Mc Carthy Mc Carthy’s new masterpiece is a road trip, albeit a scary and nightmarish one, by a father and his young son as they …
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist Author: Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an incisive portrait of the transformation of a Princeton-educated Pakistani youth with a …
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Book: The Solitude of Emperors Author: David Davidar Publisher: Penguin Price: 495 | Pages: 244 The Solitude of Emperors, David Davidar’s second novel, is an ambitious essay at delineating the daemons …
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Writers Can Create Emotional Maturity: Collen A born story-teller, an instinctive rebel (her next book is abut rebellion), a life-long political activist (as she sometimes likes to describe herself), a …
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Naipaul is Just Very Naive: Farah Farah An exile from his country for most of his life, Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah writes to “keep his country alive” in his novels …
Read MoreThe East India Company Can’t Be Wished Away
The East India Company can’t be wished away More than one hundred years after its demise, the ghosts of the East India Company – the pioneering corporation that morphed into …
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1857 Darkest Moment In British Imperial History Author William Dalrymple is in love with India and its capital Delhi — his adopted home for many years and the principle theatre …
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Being a Muslim writer in times of conflict: Violence saddens me
To be a writer in a nation scarred by relentless ethnic violence and a Muslim in a post-9/11 world distorted by mindless stereotyping and hate-mongering takes a lot of courage …
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