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Monday | December 09, 2013

BOOK REVIEW

Pink Sari Revolution by Amana Fontanella-Khan

Pan Macmillan
Pages: 304
Rs. 599

The perils of producing a ‘documentary thriller’

Roshan G. Shahani | 7th Dec

Just who do you think you are?" is a rhetorical question frequently hurled at Sampat Pal. The answer – Sampat Pal is a grassroots activist and found...

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Beyond pesky in-laws and other nuptial stereotypes

MEENAKSHI REDDY MADHAVAN | 7th Dec

Hitched

Nandini Krishnan
Random House India
Pages: 272
Rs. 299

There's a bit in Nandini Krishnan's book Hitched, a series of tell-all essays on the arranged marria...

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Just another assembly-line besteller

Abhirup Dam | 7th Dec

Innocence

Dean Koontz

HarperCollins

Pages: 352

Rs. 1,100

During his salad days in the '90s (or should I say "Once upon a time"?) Dean Koontz used to be a pul...

A wholesome soup of trivial delights

ADITYA MANI JHA | 7th Dec

The Puffin Book of 1000 Fun Facts

Shazaf Fatima Haider

Puffin

Pages: 161

Rs. 199

Having enjoyed several fruitful years of collegiate quizzing, I'm always interested in the way trivi...

Pappu Yadav pens autobiography

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 30th Nov

'Pappu' (moron) today is an ubiquitous catch-word used to make fun of the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi. But a different Pappu, al...

Shortlist announced for DSC 2014

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 23rd Nov

The shortlist announcement event of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014 was held last week at The Shaw Library in the London School of Econo...

Command Authority

Tom Clancy

Penguin

Pages: 752

Price: 1,869

The veteran thriller merchant’s latest novel takes place in modern-day Russia, where a new political bully is on the prowl.

THE UPSTART CROW

Manasi Subramaniam

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A subtle argument for meritocracy

7th Dec

"What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,Make yourselves scabs?"- Cor...

LEFT OF COOL

AISHWARYA SUBRAMANIAN

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Scottish surprise fails to rejuvenate bland Asterix sequel

30th Nov

For those of us who grew up with Anthea Bell's translations of the Asterix comics, it's sometimes hard to remember ...

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.”

‘My focus remains writing a 2nd book that doesn’t stink’

ADITYA MANI JHA

"It amazed me that there was hardly any cricket fiction, given the region’s obsession and its literary leanings."

Shehan Karunatilaka

Novelist

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka's first novel Chinaman won the Commonwealth Book Prize and the...

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November 2013

CULTURETHEQUE

M.L Bhartia Auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003

“Culturethèque” is an online platform that offers access to French e-books, magazines, films, music, language learning material, etc. for members of the network of the Alliance française libraries across India.

"Writing books is the closest men come to childbearing. "

Norman Mailer

Before the Law -Franz Kafka read by Orson Wells