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Thursday | April 24, 2014

BOOK REVIEW

Perpetual City: A Short Biography of Delhi by Malvika Singh

Aleph
Pages: 136
Rs. 295

Not quite a ‘short biography’, more memoir than history

SHARANYA | 19th Apr

The aspiration to write about Delhi today is an ambitious one —perhaps more ambitious than writing about any other Indian city. Delhi has, especiall...

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Triumph & travail in league of unordinary gentlemen

ADITYA MANI JHA | 19th Apr

Cricket Changed My Life

Shamya Dasgupta
Scholastic
Pages: 228
Rs. 250

When I first read about Pravin Tambe last year — and like millions of cricket fans around the worl...

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A child soldier shoots from the hip

ADITYA MANI JHA | 12th Apr

Guns On My Red Earth

Swati Sengupta

Red Turtle/ Rupa

Pages: 172

Rs. 195

At the Bookaroo festival for children's literature last year in Delhi, Swati Sengupta spoke at an ev...

One oven-fresh bestseller coming up

Atul Dev | 12th Apr

You Were My Crush

Durjoy Dutta, Orvana Ghai

Penguin Metro Reads

Pages: 224

Rs. 140

Durjoy Dutta's books are bestsellers before they are released. The author knows how to engage his re...

Gas book draws Reliance fire

Ajachi Chakrabarti | 19th Apr

The caveat was necessary. As moderator Siddharth Varadarajan opened the discussion at the launch of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's Gas Wars: Crony Capi...

Dancing in Paris, at large in Kabul

ADITYA MANI JHA | 12th Apr

Kabul Disco (Books 1 and 2) Writer/ Artist: Nicolas Wild publisher: HarperCollins India In 2005, French comics writer/artist Nicolas Wild left Pari...

Hold Me In Contempt

Wendy Williams

HarperCollins

Pages: 320

Price: 905

A beautiful lawyer’s world turns upside down after a tragic accident.

BIBLIO FILE

Sanjay Sipahimalani

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Revenge is a dish best served cold

19th Apr

One of the more commented-on aspects of Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby was the decision to never show the face of...

LEFT OF COOL

AISHWARYA SUBRAMANIAN

www.sunday-guardian.com /profile/aishwarya-subramanian

In memory of the much-murdered Archie Andrews

19th Apr

We killed Archie Andrews in April 2014, when we announced that he was going to die in an issue a couple of months h...

Words without Borders: Where Are the Women in Translation?
The Telegraph UK: Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Open Letters Monthly: The Landscapes Through Which We Traveled
The Paris Review: Harold Pinter, interviewed by Larry Bensky
The New Yorker: A new portrait of Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady.”

It is convenient for people to forget about Chernobyl

ADITYA MANI JHA

" It is convenient for people to forget about Chernobyl"

Ingrid Storholmen

Norwegian poet and literary critic

In 2011, as part of our college curriculum, my fourth-year geology class visited Jadugoda in Jharkha...

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January 2014

India At Turning Point

India International Centre - Multipurpose Hall, 40 Max Muller Marg Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003

Rupa Publications International cordially invites you to launch of 'India At Turning Point' The Road To Good Governance by T.S.R. Subramanian on 07th January, 2014.

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

Virginia Woolf

Before the Law -Franz Kafka read by Orson Wells