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I got lucky to get a few days of break from work. Apart from writing some long-committed pieces, also got a chance to see a few movies. Some...

I had reviewed Tan Twan Eng's novel The Gift of Rain when I had interviewed him. It appeared in India Se (Nov 2007). Here's the ful...

I had interviewed Malaysian novelist, Tan Twan Eng , sometime ago for India Se . I am reproducing the full interview here for your reading p...

I had been looking forward to Rana Dasgupta's reading ever since Deepika had informed me about it. Rana too was kind enough to drop me ...

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A few years ago, India's crossover queen Aishwarya Rai made it to the cover of the Time magazine. In India, it was then considered a no...

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American film scholar Prof Ray Carney on the Hollywood system of filmmaking: Why are Hollywood movies so bad? The best way to answer the qu...

From James Lasdun writing in The Guardian on the Raymond Carver's-widow-pressing-to-have-his unedited-stories-published controversy: Li...

So, finally, the verdict is out. To the disappointment of many, Anne Enright's novel, The Gathering , has won this year's Booker: Ir...

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Do you care about Ingmar Bergman's work? Even if you don't (or you don't care about cinema at all), here's something that th...

Just as I was trying to absorb the sadness at the announcement of Silverfish New Writing's ceasing of publication, I stumbled across thi...

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Photo: Courtesy Lucy Cavender David Davidar is a rare creature. You can count on your fingers the number of top-notch publishers who are als...