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Showing posts with label Indian writing in English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian writing in English. Show all posts
4 January 2024

Book Review: Anuja Chauhan's 'Club You To Death'

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Decided to update the blog in the new year, with pieces I've written in the interim. This is a book review I did for Scroll in 2021 and ...
11 September 2020

Book Review: Out of the ordinary - Tanuj Solanki's The Machine Is Learning

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A book review for India Today magazine: Tanuj Solanki’s quietly savage third novel digs for high-stakes drama under the surface of dull off...
22 April 2019

Prisons of the Mind

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My Mirror column : At 25, Ismail Merchant's  In Custody  ( Muhafiz ) remains a striking vision of poetry amidst pettiness, as well...
10 August 2018

Book review: The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian

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A book review for Scroll : Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel is a minimalist study of revenge (and features Agastya Sen’s father).  ...
11 June 2017

The Poet-Scholar: A.K. Ramanujan

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A conversation about the legendary late poet, translator and scholar AK Ramanujan, occasioned by a fine new book by Prof. Guillerm...
23 May 2017

Book Review: Prayaag Akbar's Leila

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The future that 'Leila' presents is already here, and all of us may be responsible.  This novel is a mirror to our selves and n...
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26 April 2017

New Testament

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A short profile of the madly popular romance writer Nikita Singh, for Elle. An advertisement for a Nikita Singh book tour, in the suppl...
2 August 2015

Picture This: Studio sagas

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My 'Picture This' column for BL Ink : Two books by Ashokamitran offer a richly storied account of the '50s film world, as ...
8 July 2015

Speaking English, Doing Desi

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Last Sunday's Mumbai Mirror column: 'Convent' English, Hinglish and the non-filmi journalist: the last in a three-part series...