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  • After the Clouds Have Gone

    After the Clouds Have Gone

    In mera Bharat mahaan, there’s always one artistic work or the other in the news for being deemed incongruous with religious sentiments, Indian tradition, morality or another of those heavy words no one seems to grasp with great clarity. In the midst of all this is the story collection Angaare that has done the rounds…

  • Book Review: The Silkworm

    Book Review: The Silkworm

    When it came to light last year that J.K. Rowling had already published a crime novel under a pseudonym that had been quietly garnering admiring reviews from critics, it was like Christmas, Diwali, Eid, Hanukah and whatever other religious festival you hold dear rolled into one. Crime being one of my favourite genres, and Rowling…

  • Persepolis: A Book Review

    Persepolis: A Book Review

    I know that most of you will know this as the film, but true to my pseudo-intellectual bourgeois-ness, I will tell you that it was a book first. A graphic novel, actually, written by Marjane Satrapi. At the outset, I want to say two things: first, that in the light of the recent awareness of…

  • Bookworm and Proud

    Bookworm and Proud

    The stereotypical bookworm doesn’t talk much; he or she’s shy and awkward, with little to no social skills. It turns out that the traditional conception of a bookworm as the person least likely to be able to understand real people is utterly wrong. In fact, they’re probably the most socially attuned person in any room.…