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Carl Muller is like the Pied Piper who charms you into the dynasty of Dattha Gamini, and the lines between mythology and reality seem to blur. The Grandeur of the Lion is thus a story about one of the most astonishing periods in Sri Lanka’s history. In this book, Sinhala king Dattha Gamini starts off where he left in the previous novel of series.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 AT 04:17 PM (IST)
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Dark characters attract. The grey shades that we want to avoid, the traits that we dread, have their appeal. Thomas Cromwell, in Tudor-ruled England, was one such character who is at the centre of Hilary Mantel’s recent novel, Bring Up the Bodies.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 AT 03:46 PM (IST)
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With his imaginative prowess, inventor Steve Jobs gave new dimension to the world of technology, while writer Ismat Chughtai impacted our thoughts with stories on tabooed social issues. Two recent books, a biography and translation of an autobiography, shed more light on their lives Steve Jobs didn’t want to preview this biography even though it was he who initiated it, asking Walter Isaacson to work on this book.
Monday, May 07, 2012 AT 09:14 PM (IST)
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Frank Money, an African-American veteran of the Korean War, is traumatised by the experiences. And he’s back in the USA for a year, but he seems to be reluctant to go back to his home in Georgia. Instead, we see him in a hospital, in Tony Morrrison’s recent novel, Home. But he can’t remember why he is there.
Monday, May 07, 2012 AT 09:06 PM (IST)
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Meethyla Parab interacts with novelist Margaret Mascarenhas about her works, Goa, and life beyond writing She is a novelist, a curator, an artist, consulting editor, environmentalist... She is all this and much more. Meet Margaret Mascarenhas, the author of the diasporic novel Skin and The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos. Settled in Aldona, a small peaceful village of Goa, Mascarenhas always has her hands full.
Monday, April 30, 2012 AT 05:05 PM (IST)
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Early in the morning, rudely roused by curiosity, we went back on deck to inspect the celebrated view of the Rio de Goa. The air was soft and fragrant, at the same time sufficiently cool to be comfortable. A thin mist rested upon the lower grounds and hovered half way up the hills, leaving their palm-clad summits clear to catch the silvery light of dawn.
Monday, April 30, 2012 AT 04:59 PM (IST)
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Arnab Ray aka Greatbong is wholly and solely responsible for the nightmares I have been having recently. That’s what The Mine does. It brings one face to face with all the sins he or she has committed. And no, it is not the philosophical garbage that we find strewn across book stalls. It is Hostel, Saw (I and II), Se7en put together in Paranormal Activity style. The Mine’s strength lies in its details.
Monday, April 30, 2012 AT 04:54 PM (IST)
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Come on, help yourself with another biscuit. You are a young man, you need to eat well,” the prime minister said to me as he passed on a plate of biscuits to me. I took a biscuit as that seemed to be the only way to break the air of awkwardness that was prevailing in the VIP Lounge of the Lohegaon airport.
Monday, April 30, 2012 AT 04:46 PM (IST)
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Through the decades, women journalists across continents have probed and reported, despite the dangers of war, conflict, violence and intimidation. Their real life stories have now been compiled in two books The idea germinated with the brutal attack on the CBS’s journalist Lara Logan in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 11, 2011. And it took shape in the form of a book dedicated to the safety of women journalists.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 AT 01:27 PM (IST)
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In this new collection of stories, Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, Israeli author Etgar Keret has once again come up with sketches of life that are more than often funny and absurd, yet somewhere they are real. Consider the title story in which a writer called Keret is held hostage by a group of armed men who demand that the writer tell them a story.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 AT 01:14 PM (IST)
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