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Sarah Waters, “The Paying Guests”
“…men never do want women to do the things they want to do themselves, have you noticed?” ( p.80) The Paying Guests is Sarah Water’s sixth novel. It is about a middle class family, the Wrays — a...
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A. N. Wilson, “Victoria: A Life”
“…she kept a gimlet eye on foreign affairs and on domestic politics throughout, even at her lowest moments of despair. But the diurnal tedium of her life, which drove courtiers to distraction, is in...
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Naseeruddin Shah, “And Then One Day”
“The same year I watched a play for the first time, in the Sem concert hall. It was called Mr Fixit and has faded from my memory almost entirely but while watching it the only thing I wanted was to be...
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Guest post: Why “The Lives of Others” makes me afraid, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
( While reading ManBooker shortlisted novel, Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others, I began to discuss it with Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. He is an avid reader. Initially he was happy with the novel, it...
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Comeback heroes, 28 September 2014
( In today’s edition of the Hindu Magazine, I have an article on the resurrection of literary characters by contemporary novelists. The link was published digitally on 27 September 2014. Here is the...
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Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi ( 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a lawyer who turned to politics after experiencing apartheid in South Africa. He returned to India and became a...
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Literati: Memoirs (5 October 2014)
My monthly column in the Hindu Literary Review was published online on 4 October 2014 and in print on 5 October 2014. Here is the url...
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Ali Smith –“How to be Both”
It is like everything is in layers. Things happen right at the front of the pictures and at the same time they continue happening, both separately and connectedly, behind, and behind that, and again...
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Edward St Aubyn “Lost for Words”
‘Sometimes you have to read the judges rather than the books,’ he could imagine himself saying in the long Vanity Fair profile that would one day inevitably be written about him. ( p.222) ‘What we have...
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Press Release, Literary event, Embassy of Ireland, India ( 16 Oct 2014)
Press Release (L-R) Paro Anand, Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, Amandeep Sandhu, Samanth Subramanian and H.E. Ambassador Feilim McLaughlin On Thursday, 16 Oct 2014, H.E. Ambassador Feilim McLaughlin of Ireland...
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