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"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." ― V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Cormac McCarthy: On the road to hell

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Cormac McCarthy, the author of The Road and No Country for Old Men , on the human race's future, life and writing in general: If you th...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Theatre review: Sofaman

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Sofaman is a collaboration between Singapore’s The Necessary Stage and The KnAM Theatre from Russia. This intercultural, multilingsofaman_s...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

P. N. Balji: On journalism, journalists and Sri Lanka

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Journalism today is under attack everywhere, both in physical and ethical senses. Newspapers are dying in the developed countries. The inter...
Monday, November 02, 2009

‘I would rather settle for a mediocre novel…’: Voices from chaos

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The Singapore Writers Festival 2009 came to a close on Sunday (1 Nov). Between the opening (23 Oct) and closing of the festival, scores of w...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Book Review: The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English

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It can be argued that Southeast Asian Writing in English has not achieved as much attention as African Writing in English or Indian Writing ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Review: Inglourious Basterds

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Before we get to talk about Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), let’s have a quick quiz. Who, among the three infamous dictator...
Friday, October 09, 2009

War, love & sex

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The Deer Hunter , a 1978 war drama co-written and directed by Michael Cimino, is not your typical Vietnam war film. It's not your Apocal...
Monday, October 05, 2009

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

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I recently published a review of Daniyal Mueenuddin's collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders , at Writersconnect.org...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Suhayl Saadi Uncensored

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I met the Scottish novelist and writer Suhayl Saadi (he was born in Yorkshire in 1961 of Afghan-Pakistani parents, and grew up in Glasgow, b...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Forgive but don't forget

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From Murders most foul (Frontline) Internationally, studies have shown that abuse of the human rights of terror suspects increases terroris...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Anatomy Lesson

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In Philip Roth's The Anatomy Lesson (a 1983 novel, the third one from Roth to feature Nathan Zuckerman as the main character), writer N...
Friday, September 04, 2009

Coming soon to your computer screen

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If talks between Hollywood studios and YouTube don’t break down, film buffs would have less reason to make a trip to the pirated video selle...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

The men who stare at goats

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What gets your goat? In my case, it's many things but goats. I keep reading about goats, specially when I read stories to my daughter be...
Monday, August 31, 2009

On autobiographical elements in novels

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Visiting Professor Amitava Kumar's blog is always a good trip--it results in my coming back with some new information, novel insights. ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Crasta Sutra

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[From Kitaab.org] Among the bunch of famous Indian novelists and writers, Richard Crasta’s name might not be as widely recognized as that of...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

On Ayn Rand, capitalism, and altruism

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Professor Amartya Sen says that it is good to have debates and discussions and it is good to argue with others on topics of importance. I d...

Africa and the New Colonialism

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In his brilliantly written essay Capital Gains (Granta), novelist Rana Dasgupta makes us meet MC who is just 28. He operates five shopping ...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Naseeruddin Shah on Theatre and Dastangoi

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Naseeruddin Shah on the theatre group Uploaded by lehren . - Watch feature films and entire TV shows. These days I have been reading some of...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Soumya Bhattacharya

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Though it was published last year in December, I recently spotted this Soumya Bhattacharya (writer and editor of HT, Mumbai) interview in Gr...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The education of Aravind Adiga

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Aravind Adiga on his growing up years in Mangalore ( The Independent ): ... my grandfather, an Indian nationalist, disdained to speak Englis...
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