Ode To A Liberal India
The Argumentative Indian Text: Amartya Sen Publisher: Gardners Books The Argumentative Indian is no not an exotic creature or an invention of Amartya Sen; turn left, right or centre – …
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Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra
Song of Mumbai “In many ways, Sacred Games is probably the first Indian novel of the street, with an exuberant cacophony of street voices and a mélange of free-flowing, hybrid …
Read MoreDemystifying Exotic Africa
My Mother’s Lovers is the story of Alex who reminisces about his glamorous multi-faceted mother and the adventurous life she lived in Africa. Kathleen, a tall white woman, a woman …
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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 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 …
Read MoreAmerica, Oh America!
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 …
Read MoreThe Endangered Solitude
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 …
Read MoreWriters Can Create Emotional Maturity: Collen
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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