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Condoleezza Rice ‘inks memoir deal
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a three-book deal with Crown Publishers, starting in 2011 with a memoir of her eight years under ……Read More
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Booked in
At a literary discussion at Kala Ghoda last week, feminist writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia, evoked memories of bygone days when there were only a ……Read More
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Recovering the Frontier State
In one of the last scenes of Charlie Wilson’s War, the film based on George Crile’s book about how one US politician rustled up enough ……Read More
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Singing the diaspora (remixed)
Looking in, looking out — not an easy position. But writer Tash Aw has been doing it from England for 15 years. In 2005, his ……Read More
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A light note **** Playing on the theme of story telling, Waiting for Renee, is a collection of Kafkaesque short stories without the doom-gloom. “That’s ……Read More
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Amy Tan makes same ‘Buddha’ blunder as Chandni Chowk…
Even as public outrage erupted in Nepal over Bollywood film Chandni Chowk to China, which wrongly described India as the Buddha’s birthplace and was subsequently ……Read More