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Book Review: My Friend Sancho
All this week, Amit Varma’s My Friend Sancho would be hitting stores across the country. It has already hit Mumbai and yours truly had the good fortune of picking up a copy (signed by the author, of...
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Today’s Web Discovery : 21 November 2009
I’ll start today with some news features which caught the eye and interest. Sandhya Jadhav graduating while in jail (DNA India): This is the story of Sandhya, who in her self defence, killed the...
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Valerio Massimo Manfredi
For history buffs (which extends to reading alternative history novels or novels that explore open strands in history) Valerio Massimo Manfredi is well known. I recently picked up a stash of his works...
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Alf Laila – 1000 years worth of stories
Along with the Panchatantra, the Jataka Tales and many others narrated in Amar Chitra Katha, there were the Arabian Nights. I had a small pocket sized edition with a few illustrations and most of the...
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Ten Thousand!
“Ten Thousand bombs had landed on Beirut and I was waiting for George“ From the opening line to the last word, Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game makes the numeral 10,000 into a metaphor for chaos, infinity...
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Delicious Fiction
Came across this interesting piece in Pratham Books which features an article from the New Yorker about food in literature. There are four kinds of food in books: food that is served by an author to...
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Such a Long Journey and India
Why Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey is a must-read for the Mumbaikar (and indeed for anyone interested in post independence Indian history) On eating beef And a time also arrived when Gustad...
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Amitava Ghosh on the “tamasha” literary festivals
A frequently heard argument in favour of book festivals is that they provide a venue for writers to meet the reading public. Although appealing, this argument is based on a flawed premise in that it...
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On Evil, Ideals and Not Sticking to the Past
The Evil One is a common character right from The Bible and the epics through Shakespeare and the Gothic novels right down to The Dark Knight Rises. There are infinite personifications of evil in all...
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On Banned Books and all
It’s been a while since I have posted on this blog. General indifference, work and laziness are the standard excuses. I have also been lax on the travel blog as well. I am still figuring out a space...
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