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All Writings
Dec 3, 20114 min read
To savour and swirl
50 Great Short Stories, edited by Milton Crane is a remarkable collection with a huge variety of settings, subjects and styles but...
Sep 3, 20115 min read
Poetry on a perfect pitch
It was by accident that Sir Neville Cardus started writing on cricket. He ended up becoming its most stylish chronicler and it's a...
Sep 1, 201110 min read
On official duty
Mr Krishnan was a senior officer of the government. Everything about him testified to this fact. He was neat and tidy. He was meticulous...
Aug 6, 20114 min read
The Chatterley hat trick
Three books that give you the complete story behind D.H. Lawrence's notorious Lady Chatterley's Lover. Not the most felicitous of...
Aug 5, 20102 min read
No Way Home | Outlook India
The tumultuous events of 1984 can, and certainly will, provide an emotionally-charged setting for many a novel. But the traumatic...
Dec 6, 20094 min read
Wizard called Oz
R amat Aviv is a leafy suburb of Tel Aviv, the understated terrain of the intellectuals, lawyers and professors, politicians and...
Nov 1, 20094 min read
Of the inconstant heart
Three weeks to read two hundred some pages, but that’s the kind of book it is. The Good Soldier - A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford...
Aug 2, 20093 min read
Go East, young man
The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham has sold millions of copies in many formats- hardback, paperback, classic, even two movies. But...
Jul 5, 20094 min read
Strange and mystic business
Allenby Street in Tel Aviv is a busy place at lunch time. Amidst the roadside cafes, the pizzerias, the shop fronts full of mannequins in...
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