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Monday, February 20, 2012
The premise is interesting. Two men in a relationship, one Indian, the other French, return to India from Paris, ostensibly to let the latter’s family know they will be getting married in a civil union....
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Monday, February 20, 2012
THE blurb says those who loved The Kite Runner will love this one as well, which is a glib, vaguely crooked way of trying to sell a book that seldom rises above the mediocre. Even if you haven’t read the introduction, it is easy to guess that Jill McGivering, the author, has been a journalist, a war correspondent and seems to know Afghanistan. ...
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Civil Lines 6 - New Writing from India edited by Mukul Kesavan, Kai Friese and Achal Prabhala is an anthology of the best writing in English by Indian authors of impeccable credentials....
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Urban Shots Crossroads edited by Ahmed Faiyaz is a compilation of urban short stories, 30 of them by 26 authors like Pune-based Paritosh Uttam, Dubai-based Ahmed Faiyaz, Canada-based Sanchari Sur and For Deepalaya contributing two stories each....
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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Monday, February 13, 2012
The World in Our Time, A Memoir, by Tapan Raychaudhari, is the English translation of the Bengali classic, Bangal-nama, undertaken by the Raychaudhuri himself. ...
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Monday, February 13, 2012
The Last Poem by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from Bengali (Shesher Kavita) by Dilip Basu and with paintings by Dinkar Kowshik is an excellent English rendition of Tagore’s most beautiful work of prose....
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Black Ice by Mahmudul Haque, translated from Bengali (Kalo Borof) by Mahmud Rahman, is drawn from the author’s real experience of the Partition, though on the eastern side of the border....
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Sorrow of the Snows by Upendra Nath Ashk, translated from Hindi by Jai Ratan is a moving account of life amidst the poverty and destitution that overran Kashmir after India’s Independence. ...
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Monday, February 13, 2012
A Life Incomplete by Nanak Singh, originally published in Punjabi in 1940 as Adh Khidya Phul, and translated by Navdeep Suri (his own grandson) is a moving document of Punjab during British rule. It was written within a span of three weeks in a hermitage located somewhere in the idyllic foothills of the Himalayas, near Dalhousie. ...
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Landmark...
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Zero Day by David Baldacci is set in Drake county, rural and remote part of West Virginia. Special agent of CID John Puller is sent there to investigate the murders of a Colonel Matthew Reynolds, his wife and teenaged son and daughter in house set in a row of isolated homes. Reynolds was with the Defense Intelligence Agency and so the case is of intense interest to the Army top brass and the FBI....
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston is less science, more technology. The novel was discovered among Crichton’s archives after he passed away and Richard Preston, who was given all the various notes, jottings and documents, was assigned to complete it....
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Hominine by Lewis Evans is a story that strides continents, from the US to Africa to Afghanistan. It exposes the game superpowers play with the world when they decide on joining forces to create the ultimate weapon of destruction....
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Monday, February 06, 2012
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Target 3 Billion (PURA: Innovative Solutions towards Sustainable Development) by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & Srijan Pal Singh is a document that propounds a course of action which, if adopted and implemented, will see a major positive change in the economy of the country, and of the world at large....
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Monday, January 30, 2012
The Average Indian Male by Cyrus Broacha is a collection of hilarious essays with a perspective that only an irrepressible Cyrus can offer....
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Monday, January 30, 2012
The Art of Effective Giving by R.M. Lala is another extremely readable book from the man who has given us several bestselling works like The Creation of Wealth, about the Tatas, and Beyond the Last Blue Mountain, a biography of J.R.D. Tata....
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Monday, January 30, 2012
The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl (or The Good Indian Girl’s Guide to Living, Loving and Having Fun) by Annie Zaidi & Smriti Ravindra is a pleasant tongue-in-cheek effort by two exuberant writers....
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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