Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The difference between taste and judgment

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We are very quick to pronounce our judgments on works of art: a book, a movie, a picture. I don't like this book. I love that movie. And...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Anna, fight moral corruption in India

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More important than wholesale and retail corruption is the third dimension of corruption—moral corruption—that has to be checked. Corruptio...
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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Kafka and Orwell on China: My first ebook of essays available online now

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Last month, Amazon.com announced that for the first time in history, the sales of ebooks have surpassed the sales of printed copies of books...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Three is company: Shobha De, Mukul Deva, and Meenakshi Reddy

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A candid report from the tenth India Se Literary Salon 2011 If anyone had any doubt about Shobha De’s popularity in Singapore, India Se’s...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

Review: Bhog and Other Stories

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Bhog and Other Stories By Ankur Betageri Pilli Books, Bangaluru, 2010 Hardback, 108 pp., Rs. 260 In Ankur Betageri’s debut collection o...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Amis on Updike, Nabokov

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Updike's four studies He said he had four studies in his house so we can imagine him writing a poem in one of his studies before break...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

A world beyond pink laptops

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This is from my CIO Asia technology blog: Women are seeking a world beyond pink laptops. They want a larger role to play in shaping the wo...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Martin Amis: "The long read is a dying art"

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"You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist. You can't have too much nous. It gets in the way, somehow," Amis says in a...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Double Bill: The curious case of Dr. Susan Lim

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Doctors are usually mild-mannered people. They are service providers. They do their job and mind their business. Controversy is something th...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Autumn of the Matriarch

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Written by Stella Koon and directed by Glen Goei, Emily of Emerald Hill is one of those plays that stays with you long after you have left ...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

A Writer's People by V S Naipaul

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"All my life I have had to think about ways of looking and how they alter the configuration of the world." With this prologue, Nai...
Friday, February 25, 2011

An angry poet

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In Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), there is a very interesting scene (funny or serious? You decide) with a Spanish ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

William Golding's initial struggles as a writer

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Friday last week I was at Carrefour and in its book section there was this sale of books (I guess the same remainders that has got publisher...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Hollywood in the theatre of terror

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In some recent Hollywood films, the good guys and the bad guys come from the same institutions, part of the US military or intelligence est...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Telling a Singapore Story

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In its November-December 2010 newsletter, INSTEP , the National Arts Council (Singapore) has profiled two of the 11 literary artists (whose ...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Jaipur Literary Festival 2011

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First thing, right up top, you should know about this post, before you read any further, is that I did not attend this year's Jaipur Lit...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Join Singapore writers for a night of crime

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Let's talk about 'Hush'

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Recently, Dileep Cherian of Manta Ray Comics sent me a link to review 'Hush' - the debut release of Manta Ray, an independent publis...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Riddle of the Seventh Stone

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We like ambition in people. In India, children at a very young age are often asked by doting relatives what they want to become when they gr...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

12th Zee Cine Awards 2011, Singapore (Video commentary)

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