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Jabberwock: Father and daughter go to alimentary school - on Shoojit Sircar's Piku
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It seems very pretty," she said, "but it's rather hard to understand.". Saturday, May 09, 2015. Father and daughter go to alimentary school - on Shoojit Sircar's Piku. Did this for The Daily O. Shoojit Sircar’s Piku. More likely, Bhaskar and Piku just need something, anything. Yet it would be a mistake to confine Piku. To this sort of symbolism. After their 2012 sleeper hit Vicky Donor. When art sets out to remind us of the unglamorous rudiments of the human condition – that beneath our posturing w...
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Akhond of Swat: April 15, 2012
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Saturday, April 21, 2012. Playlist for aspiring authors. You Gotta Have a Gimmick. The right agent and editor will help you prepare for the rigours of authorhood:. Let Me Entertain You. The media, on the other hand, suggests:. Shocking readers is also good:. 8230;and remember, you’re only doing it for your art:. Success from the author’s perspective…:. When You’re Good To Mama. 8230;and success from the publisher’s point of view:. Where Did We Go Right? What people think writing is about. In a hotel room...
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Jabberwock: Age cannot wither them (or can it?) - thoughts on actors "playing" old
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It seems very pretty," she said, "but it's rather hard to understand.". Saturday, August 01, 2015. Age cannot wither them (or can it? Thoughts on actors "playing" old. Did a version of this piece for. I was at a literature festival in December 2011 when the news came in about Dev Anand’s passing. It felt especially poignant and immediate because I was speaking about the film adaptation of Guide. But he was so fit” – qualified only in one or two cases by “…for his age”. 8221; the illness-obsessed Bhaskor ...
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Jabberwock: “It's alright, Ma, if I can't please them” – Bob Dylan and the extremes of fandom
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It seems very pretty," she said, "but it's rather hard to understand.". Saturday, July 11, 2015. 8220;It's alright, Ma, if I can't please them” – Bob Dylan and the extremes of fandom. Did this piece for The Daily O. In the opening chapter of Stephen King’s new novel Finders Keepers. An old author is jeered at, rebuked, and finally shot dead, by a “fan” who can’t come to grips with what the writer did to his most famous character in his third book. Why did you have to push his face down in the dirt? Which...
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Akhond of Swat: July 08, 2012
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Sunday, July 08, 2012. Over at nilanjanaroy.com. It is Kolynos Kleen, Kolynos Bright, Kolynos Super Sparkling White: go visit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. Oh, The Places That You'll Go. A Simple Desultory Philippic. A Walk in the Clouds: Megha Murthy. A Writer and his Web-blahg: Samanth Subramanian. Absolute Lee: Leela Alvares. Bhrigu's Question: Arun Simha. Black Muddy River: Shamya. Blogical Conclusion: Baradwaj Rangan. Dream Ink: Zafar Anjum.
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Akhond of Swat: May 20, 2012
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Speaking Volumes: The case for context. Published in the Business Standard, May 22, 2012). Three cartoons by Shankar. Note the way in which he uses whips and ropes to make his point in three completely different political contexts.). It is unreasonable to expect the Dalit community to not take offence at the cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar, drawn by the great cartoonist Shankar in 1949, withdrawn from NCERT textbooks by Indian members of Parliament earlier this month. To argue that the D...
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Akhond of Swat: April 22, 2012
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012. The Business Standard column: Lives, Unsanitised. Published in the Business Standard, April 24, 2012). Before the digital camera age, the venerable photo studios in most large Indian cities offered a tactful service for the recently bereaved. His biography, a work of careful scholarship, is being attacked not because it is inaccurate, but because it interferes with the very Indian demand for a strictly sanitized version of the lives of the famous- as Heehs has said, his critics a...
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Akhond of Swat: Speaking Volumes: Fifty Shades of Gah
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012. Speaking Volumes: Fifty Shades of Gah. Published in the Business Standard, June 2012). By the end of June, Fifty Shades of Grey had become such a runaway bestseller that EL James’ Sadism 101 manual had reached the most unexpected places. It was on sale in a Mapusa supermarket, at all airport bookstores, available at Delhi traffic lights where young children hawked copies: “Grey, Darker, Freed—take all together for discount, madam! For more than two centuries, to be a writer mean...
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Akhond of Swat: Sangam House residencies: last date July 31
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Saturday, July 07, 2012. Sangam House residencies: last date July 31. The applications for the Sangam House Residencies. For 2012/ 2013 are online. The last date to apply is July 31. And I would never have met Arshia Sattar and DW Gibson. Arshia—writer, editor, translator, actor in her own right. DW Gibson, who’s just finished his book Not Working,. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. Sangam House residencies: last date July 31. A Writer and hi...
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Akhond of Swat: July 01, 2012
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Saturday, July 07, 2012. Sangam House residencies: last date July 31. The applications for the Sangam House Residencies. For 2012/ 2013 are online. The last date to apply is July 31. And I would never have met Arshia Sattar and DW Gibson. Arshia—writer, editor, translator, actor in her own right. DW Gibson, who’s just finished his book Not Working,. Wednesday, July 04, 2012. Speaking Volumes: Fifty Shades of Gah. Published in the Business Standard, June 2012). By the end of June, Fifty Shades of Grey had...
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