Monday, October 24, 2011

Bangkok Floods: News vs Facts

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If you have been following the news, you would get the impression that all of Bangkok has been flooded. Cars and apartment buildings are sub...
Saturday, October 08, 2011

Job, Jobs and 'The Tree of Life'

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This Thursday (6 October) morning, I was on the bus to my office. I was surfing through the books section of The Guardian on my iPhone when ...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Singapore 'Borders' closed

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It is curtains for Borders in Singapore. The only functional Borders outlet at Parkway Parade closed its door on Monday. For good. Last ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Shanghai

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This post is not about Dibakar Banerjee's upcoming film Shanghai, which is being shot in Kolkata. Though I must say, I am looking forwar...
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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...