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Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards
The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded — and finding place are ‘The Enchantress of Florence’ by Salman Rushdie, ‘Sea of Poppies’ by Amitav Ghos… more →
Reflections of a Silverfish
Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards
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davematt wrote 4 months ago: The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded — and finding place are … more →
The River Has No Camera - Anjali Chandran
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davematt wrote 5 months ago: If one went by the title or the packaging, one could have easily missed this book. If you took a lit … more →
Escape - Manjula Padmanabhan
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davematt wrote 6 months ago: Two budding flowers and few drops of blood, the cover says it all. It took me a while to make the co … more →
Afterwards - Jaishree Misra
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davematt wrote 7 months ago: Disappointing, was my thought as I turned the last page. Another Indian author that I had not tried … more →
The Finger Puppet - Anu Jayanth
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davematt wrote 8 months ago: Reading The Finger Puppet on the heels of Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was very reassuring - all is n … more →
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay - Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
davematt wrote 8 months ago: If the ’Last Song of Dusk’ was bizarre, this one is bizarre too; less but bizarre all th … more →
No Onion Nor Garlic - Srividya Natarajan
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davematt wrote 9 months ago: I attempted this one more out of compulsion, so that P did not crib about her failed attempts to mak … more →
Love and Longing in Bombay
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lazybug wrote 11 months ago: Finished reading a book after a *long* time. Several starts failed or stopped midway. But this one, … more →
If You Want to Read an Intense Story This Vacation...
Admin wrote 1 year ago: Debutant writer Ashish Mohan’s “The Final Awakening” gets off to a curious but interesting start. Ar … more →
Sudheer the lafunga...
harinair wrote 1 year ago: …is up there along with kalidasa’s Nala & Damayanti as a great Indian fictional char … more →
2009 Debs Interview Series: Neesha Meminger
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cmcraig wrote 1 year ago: Samar–a.k.a. Sam–is an Indian-American teenager whose mom has … more →
Book, booker, booked
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Meena Kandasamy wrote 1 year ago: “The future was a casino, everyone was gambling, and everyone expected to win.” Salman Rushdie (Fury … more →
The Small House - Timeri N Murari
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davematt wrote 1 year ago: Timeri N Murari is a name that you will see tucked away among the likes of Rohinton Mistry, Anita De … more →
You Know Fun's in Store...
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lazybug wrote 1 year ago: when the book you picked up randomly at the bookstore has this in the third page: The Raj Atithi Gue … more →
Karan Bajaj's debut novel!
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Amyth wrote 1 year ago: I recently got an email from Mr. Karan Bajaj (BIT Mesra, Mechanical Engienering, 1996-2000) and was … more →
Indian Fiction
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stilettostorytime wrote 1 year ago: Recently I have been struck by the amazing amount and quality of Indian fiction for readers of all a … more →
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
vivekisms wrote 2 years ago: On a breezy Sunday afternoon, I happened to read ” The Death Of Vishnu” by Manil Suri. I … more →
Home by Manju Kapur
vivekisms wrote 3 years ago: If I were to ever recommend someone a book that would instantly make them go straight to the Never … more →
Till Death Do Us Part by Mahasweta Devi
vivekisms wrote 3 years ago: Mahasweta Devi is one of my favourite bhasha writers and I love everything that she writes no matter … more →
