Showing posts with label india. Show all posts
Showing posts with label india. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Autobiographical novel: 'a prosthetic voice' (Alexander Chee). And (films of) Guru Dutt

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I recently dipped into Alexander Chee's collection of essays How to Write an Autobiographical Novel . I find reading about writing to ...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Didn't expect to see ME mentioned in Neel Mukherjee's novel

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Am enjoying Neel Mukherjee's 2010 novel A Life Apar t - a novel within a novel -  and was surprised to come across this observation fr...
Saturday, 29 November 2014

The Missing Story

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A couple of months ago my friends lent me Tagore's selected stories, recommending one in particular, 'Kabuliwallah'. When I loo...
Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Five days after the morning after

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It seems like months ago we voted to stay or go - I had a tear in the polling booth, it felt like destiny was weighing on you -  a real cha...
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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Discovering Anita Desai and Malcolm Lowry

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I hadn't read anything by Anita Desai before, but just loved her gorgeous, short novel Clear Light of Day, a collection of disappointme...
Monday, 20 May 2013

Louis MacNeice

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I recently read that the poet Louis MacNeice had been sent by the BBC to India  in 1947 to report on Partition. I knew his name, of course,...
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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

The Panda Theory, Joseph Anton & an anthology

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Gallic Books very kindly sent me a copy of The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier when I said last week  on Twitter that I'd had to return ...
Sunday, 23 December 2012

Manto & translation, & Pakistani fathers

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This is Saadat Hasan Manto's Mottled Dawn , Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition, published by Penguin India. The cover is exquis...
Friday, 7 December 2012

Saadat Manto's 'Toba Tek Singh'

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I have recently discovered the writer, Saadat Hasan Manto , he wrote short stories in Urdu, the bad boy of Partition literature. This story...
Thursday, 8 November 2012

John Maddox Award...& a gorgeous novel

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This is, sadly, not an early April Fool, but Professor Simon Wessely has been named as one of the recipients of the inaugural John Maddox ...
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Monday, 22 October 2012

Mona Siddiqui on Desert Island Discs

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Very listenable, academic Mona Siddiqui on Desert Island Discs yesterday . I love that her luxury item would be tea. And I had not heard of...
Sunday, 16 September 2012

Being grabbed by one sentence

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This spring and summer I've been reading fiction and non-fiction from Pakistan and India. As I've said before,  I feel slightly ...