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Around the world to eat (01 November 12:00) |
| A palatable and well-informed romp through global cuisine. |
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A storm of a secret in a teacup (01 November 12:00) |
| Inane characters, a tedious plot and pretensions to upward mobility make for a forgettable read. |
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The road to recovery (01 November 12:00) |
| A moving account of a mourning so courageous and a healing so complete, as few people manage. |
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New books in Old series (01 November 12:00) |
| A look at two novels — The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Swedish author Stieg Larsson and And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer — that bring the spotlight back onto two very differen... |
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An author in search of himself (01 November 12:00) |
| Summertime is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of literature… |
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The nuns tale (01 November 12:00) |
| Dalrymple’s austere and exciting book on nine astonishing religious lives opens with a moving story that should kindle interest in Jainism. |
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Bottoms up (01 November 12:00) |
| Happy Hours: The Penguin Book of Cocktails, Bhaichand Patel, Penguin, Rs. 499. Barrister Bhaichand Patel draws on his hours behind the bar as a bartender to put together this heady arra... |
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Of the inconstant heart (01 November 12:00) |
| The Good Soldier is a novel about brittle social graces that mask savage hatreds. |
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Anecdotes of loss and desire (01 November 12:00) |
| Alain de Botton, Heathrow airport’s first writer-in-residence, on what it was like to sit in Terminal 5 and watch life unfold in one of the nerve centres of the modern world, the airport... |
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Recognising each other (01 November 12:00) |
| Sharing the same cultural and historical complex ought to make Indian writers in English more receptive to each others’ work. Its absence is a hurdle to developing a sustained writing trad... |
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Remembering Faiz (01 November 12:00) |
| For the 25th anniversary of the death of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, invoking his persona and poetry. |
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Enduring monuments (01 November 12:00) |
| The last week of October always revives the memory of two immortal poets: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. |
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For verse or for worse (04 October 12:00) |
| Vijay Nambisan’s translations of two 16th century Bhakti classics do not work given his limited access to the languages of the originals. |
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Brilliant in parts (04 October 12:00) |
| The Quickening Maze, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is beautifully written but is limited by a serious absence of narrative unity. |
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A flair for the unusual (04 October 12:00) |
| From a sluggish first half, Solo takes flight to a surreal world. |
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Travellers tales (04 October 12:00) |
| Of encounters in far-flung places. |
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More management tales (04 October 12:00) |
| Another MBA tells his particular story. |
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Unknown Cromwell (04 October 12:00) |
| Wolf Hall, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2009, is a unique vision of English history. |
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New releases (04 October 12:00) |
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Intimacy of killing (04 October 12:00) |
| Intimacy of killing” might sound incongruous, but that is what “killology” founder Lt.Col. Dave Grossman seeks to detail in his 1995 Pulitzer shortlisted book On Killing. It has since ... |
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All is not revealed (04 October 12:00) |
| Waiting for the sequel to the Da Vinci Code? Well, The Lost Symbol is definitely not the one. |
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A critical failure (04 October 12:00) |
| Winning literary prizes abroad is a habit with Indian writers; one we need to view with scepticism rather than naively accept as a sign of superior standards. |
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Being bookish in Brazil (04 October 12:00) |
| Random notes on a book industry junket with a mind that wanders to the rainforests. |
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Seeking the self (04 October 12:00) |
| Poetry, says Kanimozhi, whose latest book was released recently, is about inner equilibriums. Excerpts from a conversation... |
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Behind brand Booker (04 October 12:00) |
| Unpredictable, arbitrary, unreliable…The Man Booker Prize may be all that and more. Yet, for 40 years, it has unfailingly picked winners that have staying power. Who will win it this Octob... |
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Booker shortlist 2009 (04 October 12:00) |
| Short takes on this year’s nominations by novelist |
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The inaccessible laid bare (06 September 12:00) |
| Poems, stories and biographies rich in imagery and lyrics reveal trends in regional literature. |
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Midnight musings (06 September 12:00) |
| There are times when words cannot quite capture the eloquence of silence that underlies companionship. |
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Brave passage (06 September 12:00) |
| There’s more to Pakistan than meets the mind of the not-too-well-informed reader. |
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Wages of freedom (06 September 12:00) |
| A literary and social milestone that needs a place in the thinking connoisseur’s library. |
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Misplaced enthusiasm (06 September 12:00) |
| A book that works more as an ebullient attack on New Literary Criticism, and not as a novel. |
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Power of the story (06 September 12:00) |
| Unconventional in format and subject, The Storyteller’s Tale is a celebration of tales. |
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Elusive selves (06 September 12:00) |
| A stereotypical tale of Westerners ‘finding’ themselves in India. |
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Religion of the heart (06 September 12:00) |
| Sufism, often considered exotic and esoteric, belongs to ordinary people of faith. |
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A fine press for Chennai (06 September 12:00) |
| In Tara Books, a book is not just another book; it is a work of art. |
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Into a private world (06 September 12:00) |
| In the times of Love and Longing: Amrita and Imroz, translated by Arvinder, edited by Uma Trilok, Full Circle, Rs. 295. In the days of instant messaging and breathless communication over so... |
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Chiaroscuro of insights (06 September 12:00) |
| Luminous stories that question the validity of status quo. |
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Mirror mantra (06 September 12:00) |
| The canonisation of writers like Rushdie and Naipaul in the West enables it to think of itself as radical without really being inconvenienced. The real Other remains outside its gaze… |
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Exile as a choice (06 September 12:00) |
| Sentimentality and nostalgia have ruined the rich possibilities afforded by the ‘migrant’ novel, feels Neel Mukherjee, recipient of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award for his novel P... |
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Celebration time at Seminar (06 September 12:00) |
| Steering clear of personal attacks, Seminar has provided a platform for non-partisan polemics. A conversation with the journal’s publisher and editors on the occasion of its completion of ... |
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Metaphysical riddles (02 August 12:00) |
| This collection of Neela Padmanabhans writing turns out be both frustrating and uneven |
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Words of wisdom (02 August 12:00) |
| Optimistic and reassuring Ashok Sawhnys poems are an enjoyable read |
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A labouring world (02 August 12:00) |
| The book is both an elegy and epitaph for industrial civilisation |
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Re-imagining Pakistan (02 August 12:00) |
| Various readings of Pakistan as a country in the light of its portrayal in Rushdies novels |
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On the threshold between prose and poetry (02 August 12:00) |
| What Hermann Broch so poetically explores in The Death of Virgil is art its promise of knowledge and its inevitable failure |
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Bharat still eclipsed (02 August 12:00) |
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Bapu Kids pack (02 August 12:00) |
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Fizz goes flat (02 August 12:00) |
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Go East young man (02 August 12:00) |
| In The Razors Edge Maugham foresaw that the West would one day come seeking the East |
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Comic book capers (02 August 12:00) |
| Amar Chitra Katha comics form a part of professor Karline McLains exploration of visual culture in modern India |
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