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Jul 6, 20084 min read
Cairo from a café
The night throws its canopy gently over the Great Pyramids at Giza, as if it were reluctant to smudge their sharp silhouettes. And as the...
Jun 1, 20085 min read
Wayward wanderers
As opposed to travelling, aimless, whimsical wandering has been the source of some literary masterpieces… I step out without purpose,...
May 4, 20084 min read
Chronicling the hills
There comes a point in every long-gestation literary project that one doesn’t want to see it anymore. One hands it over to the editor...
Mar 2, 20084 min read
Theroux: Tips and tales
In an entertaining and typically ironic talk in Delhi last week, Paul Theroux did at least two good things. First was the epiphany:...
Feb 3, 20084 min read
Magic of green baize
When authors and editors put their heads together to decide on the name for a book, it is not an idle moment. The name, perhaps more than...
Dec 2, 20074 min read
The allure of Cote d’Azur
The infusions into literature and art of the light and reflections on the blue waters are too many to relate. An image in sepia from a...
Nov 4, 20074 min read
Storyteller of the sea
From my room in The Oriental hotel, I can gaze endlessly at the muddy Chao Praya, as it flows sluggishly past the concrete and glass...
Oct 7, 20075 min read
Open letter to Sir Naipaul
Dear Mr. Naipaul, Forgive me for not calling you Sir Vidia. Somehow, that doesn’t trip off my tongue easily. Perhaps it is the democratic...
Sep 14, 20075 min read
The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Biblio
The Ancient Mariner of Coleridge’s classic poem fixes his gaze on an innocent wedding guest and does not relent until he has told him his...
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