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A distant world, Part III : Siliguri 2008-03-06 09:35:08 Read Part II
I am at last headed for Bengal. North Bengal, where I was born. Where I spent my growing up years. In Delhi, the plane sits on the runway, delaying our departure for almost an hour. Who cares about the North East? Backward, dilapidated, a laggard in the economic growth seizing the whole [...] Read more:distant
A distant world, Part II : Delhi 2008-03-04 09:51:58 Read Part I
I travel up north, to Delhi. Crowded city bursting at its seams. An excess of traffic and humans jostling for space in roads frequently interrupted with construction work. New roads, wider roads, flyovers, hotels. To accommodate more and more. People, motors, business. To claim more and more. Open spaces, green vistas to gray. [...] Read more:distant
A distant world - Part I : Mumbai, Pune 2008-03-01 05:03:42 More than four years later. Closer to five than four. The very words I use to describe the gap after which I return to India, for a vacation.
It is a long journey, from where I reside, nestled in the temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest of America, to the subcontinent. How many thousand miles? I [...] Read more:distant
, Mumbai
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2008-02-17 17:38:10 After plodding through the last few books, “The God of Small
Things” was a refreshing change. It drew me in, into the lives of Estha and Rahel, into Kerala, Ayemenem, onto love and its fragile boundaries, easily crushed by blind traditions, by selfish, hypocritical motives.
What Arundhati Roy achieves in her debut novel, her only [...]
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2008-02-09 16:58:52 It is not a badly written book. But not one that well written to deserve an award, and least of all one as prestigious as the Booker. So why did The Inheritance
of Loss win the Booker award?
Answer:
a) The rest of the books in running were no better
b) The judges made a blunder
c) My perceptions [...] Read more:Kiran
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer 2008-02-02 16:05:38 Mehring, a shrewd, successful business tycoon based in South Africa and a sexually prolific if slightly depraved man, buys a farm, somewhat on a whim. It becomes a sanctuary for him, where he escapes on weekends to get away from his stereotyped world and also supervise its functioning, Jacobus and the rest of the black [...] Read more:Nadine
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru 2008-01-03 23:18:08 Hari Kunzru makes a fair impression with his debut novel, which begins in the early twentieth century.Young Pran Nath Razdan, suddenly realizes that he is no longer the pampered son of a wealthy household, which upon the discovery of his dubious origins casts him out. The timing coincides with the death of Amar Nath Razdan, [...]
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 2007-12-22 19:47:20 Paddy Clarke
is not a funny story. The overwhelming feeling is one of palpable sadness, despite several humourous episodes, especially towards the earlier parts of the book. Ten year old Paddy, the eldest son of a large Irish family in fictitious(?) Barrytown of the sixties, thoroughly enjoys the company of his friends – Kevin, Liam, [...] Read more:Paddy
A Beneficiary by Nadine Gordimer 2007-12-18 13:48:14 Charlotte, an attractive twenty something woman, is confronted by a secret upon her mother’s death. In unraveling what is and what is not, the mystery surrounding her own origin, her doubts are resolved in the clarity of a father’s love.
Gordimer’s style is succinct and incisive, frequently interrogative in this piece, probing inwards for answers. [...] Read more:Nadine
Book Awards Reading Challenge 2007-12-12 23:25:51 Here’s motivation for the coming days.
The ones finished have links to review pages.
Commonwealth Writers’
1992 - Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
1994 - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
1996 - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Booker
1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1981 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1993 [...] Read more:Awards
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