The ArTicKles Collection
I came across Gopinath Mavinkurve quite by accident. I was googling for information on the Bangalore Book Festival-'09, and stumbled [...]
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11, 2009
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08, 2009
The Debate
The following story from the Mahabharata is taken from the novel Show Business by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.Ashok Banjara, the superhero [...]
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08, 2009
Destiny
I believe in Destiny.I guess I always did, but I was never really conscious of it nor did I realise [...]
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08, 2009
Show Business
I just finished reading "Show Business" by Dr. Shashi Tharoor. This is the second book by Dr.Tharoor that I am [...]
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07, 2009
The Guide – the Book, the Movie
The Guide, the book (1958) by R K Narayan, and Guide, the film(1965) were both released before my birth, so [...]
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07, 2009
The Great Indian Novel
The Great Indian Novel, as author Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned, takes its title not from the author's estimate of [...]
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06, 2009
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
I have been deferring my review on this book for some time now. It's because I haven't decided what I [...]
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06, 2009
The Red Carpet
I chanced on Lavanya Sankaran by accident. A few months ago, I was browsing a Bangalore news site (I do [...]
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06, 2009
The Children Of Men
PD James has been writing books for about 50 years now. But I first heard of her a few months [...]
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05, 2009
Like the Flowing River: Paulo Coelho
I have just finished reading Paulo Coelho's "Like the Flowing River" - Thoughts and Reflections.It contains a collection of weird [...]