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The Shape Of The Beast

Posted in Activities, Books and Literature, Cultural, General, News and Views, Observation, Writing, tagged Arundhati Roy, Bandit Queen, Book Relase, Books, God of Small Things, India, Massey Sahib, News, Politics, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations wit, The Shape of the Beast on 28 April 2008 | 5 Comments »

Eleven years after she won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things, 14 conversations (2001-2008 ) with Roy on her social and political activism appear in a new book The Shape of the Beast.
Even before The God of Small Things hit the world of fame, this female Rushdie of India attracted lot [...]

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Dalrymple Lives in The Land of The Last Mughal

Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Delhi, Indian History, Interesting, News and Views, Society, Travel, Writing, tagged Author, British School, City of Djinns, Fiction, India, Jaunapur, Mother Teresa, Olivia, The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple on 31 March 2008 | 5 Comments »

William Dalrymple’s love for India is not unknown. He has penned six books, of which five have embraced Indian life as their storyline and have been award winning. India has sewn itself into his life since long now with him spending a lot of time in New Delhi India apart from London and Edinburgh.
However, [...]

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Jaya finds her roots in Bengali Lovesongs

Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, General, Interesting, Kolkata, Metro News, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Bengali, Cinema, Director Jayabrato Chatterjee, Dom Mores, Jaya Bachchan, Last Train to Innocence, Lovesongs -Yesterday, Mallika, MAMI International Film Festival, Mir Taqi Mir, Om Puri, Rabindranath Tagore, Shahana Chatterjee, Today and Tomorrow, Usha Uthup on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »

Kolkata is celebrating Jaya Bachchan’s latest in Bengali cinema Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. However Bengali has been used sparsely in [...]

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The Famous Five Are Back With New Jyoti

Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, Movies, News and Views, tagged Cartoon, Disney, Disney Channel, Enid Blyton, Famous Five, Jo, Jyoti, News, Steve Aranguren, Tomboy Georgina on 24 March 2008 | No Comments »

Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five have undergone a radical 21st-century makeover for a new Disney cartoon series Famous Five: On The Case. The members of the new Famous Five are children of the original five created in 1942 - team leader Julian, Dick, George, Anne and the dog Timmy. They are Jo, Max, Allie and [...]

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Best of Booker

Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, News and Views, tagged Arunadhati Roy, Author, Best of the Booker, Booker Prize, Books, Fiction, India, Kiran Desai, Literature, News, Reading, Salman Rushdie, Writing, Yann Martel on 21 February 2008 | 2 Comments »

Salman Rushdie and Arunadhati Roy are competing with Yann Martel for The Best of the Booker. Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is neck to neck in the race with The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Rushdie won in 1981 and Martel in 2002. The Life of Pi is a fable of survival after a shipwreck (2002) [...]

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Smell of Fresh Ink

Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Information, tagged Book List, English Writing, Indian Writers on 12 February 2008 | No Comments »

There are two kinds of books: one with fresh smell of ink and the other with musty smell of memory. While growing up the fresh smell was rare: once at the beginning of the school year and at the annual book fair. Most of the story books were either borrowed from friends or loaned from [...]

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