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Anushree Majumdar

Rewind to the angry young man

You’ve grown up with Big B and it pains you to see the advertisements for a range of thingamajigs.

A storyteller’s tale

Ruskin Bond feels that, like Copperfield, he too came of age and told his story

Rewind to the angry young man

You’ve grown up with Big B and it pains you to see the advertisements for a range of thingamajigs. Whatever happened to Babu Moshai, Anthony Gonsalves

Publish Post

Blogging crept into Indian cyberspace, stealthily, like a virus, almost five years ago. Since then it’s become a huge movement and Satya Prabhakar, CE
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Ringing in change

Picture this: You've taken the day off after lying to your boss about a severe intestinal infection because you had promised your son you'll help him

Bollywood blogbuster

The Bollywood fan club on blogosphere just got firangi—with voices from as far as Fiji and South Korea, Austria and the US

Indian Memsahib: life and times of a bureaucrat’s wife

The auditorium at the India Islamic Cultural Centre in the Capital was packed to capacity with bureaucrats, along with their wives who had all come fo

Accio Pot

Hopping Pot is a postscript to Harry Potter but the magic is there, in Aesop doses

Get Shorty

With 69 films, both amateur and professional, Twilight ’08 certainly doesn’t leave viewers short-changed. The film festival, organised by the Sri Auro

Blog takes

Raheel Lakhani questions the links between terrorists and religion in ‘A reaction is all they needed’.

A Case of Exploding Talent

“Shakti always wanted to put up a prize for a deserving first book,” said Jeet Thayil, poet and the late Shakti Bhatt’s husband.

Paz Indica

Beneath the glass top lies a carefully careless heap of papers. One of them is displayed regally, like a king among the courtiers-Octavio Paz’s pen sc

Agents of Change

In far simpler times, “literary” was followed by “criticism” rather than “agent”. And then a young woman called Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize — a

Remembrance of All Things Past

Basharat Peer and I are watching a replay of the Armistice Day ceremony on the flat-screen TV at Market Café.

Remembrance of All Things Past

Basharat Peer and I are watching a replay of the Armistice Day ceremony on the flat-screen TV at Market Café.

‘That’s what writers are digging deep for, that little bit of truth’

Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer is arguably one of the greatest living writers in the English language. Anushree Majumdar caught up with her in New Del

Democrats in city ‘cautiously optimistic’ on eve of US elections

Shelli Koffman was trying to connect to the wi-fi network at Choko La in Khan Market last evening. She had found a Democrat, who hadn’t cast her vote

Agents of Change

In far simpler times, “literary” was followed by “criticism” rather than “agent”.

The Man who would be King

Devdutt Pattanaik (in the picture) chuckled when I gaped at him in shock.

After film, One Night rings in again: title in Hindi

Chetan Bhagat did not consider himself an Indian author, cutting across masses, in the true sense of the term all this time.

‘Dark side of India’ gets Adiga Booker

Not everyone quits a job to think up a story of a rickshawpuller’s son who writes letters to 'Mr Premier' Wen Jiabao over seven days.

Read the Metre

Jeet Thayil mentions this Macaulay moment in poetry when W.B. Yeats, after praising Rabindranath Tagore much, revised his opinion and wrote to friend

Maharaja and I

Duleep Singh, the last maharaja of Punjab, comes alive, along with a host of other forgotten people in Navtej Sarna’s new novel The Exile (Penguin, Rs

Twin strokes

The young man, a kind of Adonis, is dressed in rich robes and wears a crown of leaves. He gently looks down at a bunch of flowers in his hand as if to

Memories of A Melancholic Soul

Rita Ganguly sits gracefully in spite of the heat when we meet at the Terrace Café at Triveni Kala Sangam. Further, she shows no sign of hurrying up o
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