Friday 6 November '09
I loathe smiling faces. Not in real life. Or on human beings. I just hate those ghastly graphics that have taken over normal communication...Friday 11 September '09
I don’t do fans. Not even in the height of summer. Not even in Delhi where temperatures touch 45 degrees Celsius...Saturday
1 August '09I am addicted to carbohydrates. I think they are the greatest invention since, well, sliced bread. And I can sing paeans of praise for toast.Friday
17 April '09They advertised the most comfortable beds in Koh Samui. And delivered on that promise...Sunday
5 October '08Another novel seeks out Bhopal and the aftermath of brutalitySunday
17 August '08Preeta Samarasan brings Malaysia on to the world map of literatureSunday
30 March '08An extraordinary debut novel set in the aftermath of the Turkish earthquakeSunday
13 January '08A fabulous first novel on a Jewish jeweller unfolds in post-Revolution IranSunday
23 December '07An elegant take on the Zia legacy.Sunday
25 November '07Bryson makes even trivia about Shakespeare funSunday
14 October '07When Michael Ondaatje steps forward into the future, he is actually revealing the pastSunday
16 September '07Paul Theroux uses the format of three novellas — and the suite — to intertwine the lives of American travellers who arrive in India for different reasons, and find in it different ways of getting lostSunday
26 August '07Nikita Lalwani’s Booker longlisted novel skillfully subverts the great Indian immigrant dreamSunday
17 June '07A Chinaman in LA Nell Freudenberger shows why she is hailed as one of the best young American novelistsSunday
15 April '07The namelessness of the city in this lyrical novel remains a problemSaturday
10 March '07A fascinating take on the Bhopal gas tragedy that investigates what it is to be human.Monday
26 June '06For nearly two decades I have been living in this glorious city and my scrapbook of memories is filled with nameless people who went out of their way to take care of me.
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