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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 08:37 PM | November 06,2009
Bhagat’s books are aspirational fantasies for those who have the privilege to aspire to a degree from IIT or IIM, a well-paid corporate job or a business start-up. His novels pander to the worst kind of middle-class materialism
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Chandrahas Choudhury 08:32 PM | November 06,2009
Stories of desire, loneliness and what constitutes ‘home’ in the subcontinent
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 09:04 PM | August 21,2009
The greatest of men have often been less-than-worthy husbands, be it Mahatma Gandhi, John F Kennedy or Albert Einstein
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 09:38 PM | July 31,2009
Until recently, sequels were more likely to be written by less-talented writers, feeding on great novels as carrion to sustain their puny careers. The most-abused author in this matter is surely Jane Austen
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Chandrahas Choudhury 07:56 PM | July 31,2009
This debut repeats all the cliches of fiction set in South Asia and meant for global readers
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Arunava Sinha 12:30 PM | July 31,2009
Nine lives, one climax: it requires at least nine stories. Here, there’s only linguistic gymnastics
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Soutik Biswas 07:56 PM | July 24,2009
A thriller set in Florence that combines the best ingredients of noir crime fiction
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Chandrahas Choudhury 09:38 PM | May 08,2009
From Arundhati Roy to Kazuo Ishiguro--a round-up of the biggest books of the season
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 09:14 PM | April 24,2009
The most toxic--and sadly, also the most popular--are relationship advice books, a treasure trove of sexist mumbo-jumbo that infantilizes women in the name of empowerment
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Sampurna Chattarji 10:57 PM | April 17,2009
A novel about the changing value of art in a city that’s constantly changing
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Sidin Vadukut 09:32 PM | March 12,2009
The historian on his forthcoming book, breaking out of libraries and a ‘devadasi’ who inspired him
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 09:09 PM | February 20,2009
Murder mysteries and romance novels are the two most popular genres in the book industry, which belches them out by the dozens every month
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Harish Bhat 01:15 AM | February 06,2009
The unexpected happens when a powerful corporate coterie reveals how each one of them duped their way to the top
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 09:29 PM | January 23,2009
The one primary reason why every culture has its storytellers is to offer cultural catharsis and closure so we can heal and move on. Perhaps the Mumbai attacks will spur our authors into action
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Chandrahas Choudhury 12:10 AM | November 14,2008
Aravind Adiga’s second is a more genuine, convincing novel about an India of disparity and ugliness
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