Mark Twain "Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Katherine Boo won the national book award for nonfiction for “Behind the Wonderful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” which sheds light on the lives of India’s poor as well as govt corruption. Author Louise Erdrich took the top fiction award for her moving novel “The Round [...]
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Published in 2012, the year also gifted the novelist the highest Civilian Award in the form of The Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by US President Barack Obama.In college, we were introduced to Morrison with one of her finest novels till date, ‘Beloved’, but then again, only students who had African-American Writing as one of their [...]
Well as the name suggests the book is as very interesting and thoughtful in its own manner. There is also the constant battle to fight age, look young and to stay relevant so that you are not usurped by someone ten years younger than you are. All this, set against the uber glam backdrop of a [...]
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Book is very fine and yet complicated too that tells us about all those things in a very simple and arranged way that we normally fail to do. Hemant kumar who is author to the book has done this thing very neatly. In an attempt to unveil the disturbing facets ofBihar during the early Independence era, it seems [...]
The book effectively illustrates the chilli’s reception in Asia and Africa. The chilli came to India with the Portuguese who brought it to Goa from their South American conquests around 1498. Interestingly, Europe was rather reluctant to adopt it as ‘anything more than a curiosity or an ornamental plant’. Christopher Columbus was among the first Europeans to encounter the [...]
Narrative of the novel: It does not follow a linear progression. It begins with the end which means that the reader is already aware of the conclusion in the initial pages. The narrator, Omar (a Sunni boy), also an admirer and lover of Amina (a Shia girl) is seen mourning her death while contesting the many rumours that surrounded [...]
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A book written by veteran Indian diplomat Pascal Alan Nazareth on MahatmaGandhi’s outstanding leadership qualities, which have great relevance in today’s world plagued by violence and terrorism, has been translated into Mandarin and will soon hit the stands in China. The Mandarin edition of Nazareth’s book entitled “Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership” will be published in China at a time when the [...]
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Martin Jacques has only a few doubts that the Middle Kingdom will soon be the centre of the world. The title of his book is provocative. What this British journalist actually predicts is a “new kind of world system in which China is the main player — but not to the exclusion of the rest [...]
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Book review: I’ve Got Your Number Author: Sophie Kinsella Publisher: Bantam Press Pages: 381 In typical Sophie Kinsella style, this book too piques your curiosity and sees you through in a matter of some hours. Her heroines, as always, are so lovingly predictable, and so blithely clumsy. They all have in common a lot of charisma, bagsful of wit, presence [...]
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The Swedish leftwing author makes no attempt to hide his sympathies as he returns to India to foray into the Maoist heartland in Bastar where he interacts with the dominantly tribal guerrillas and holds extensive discussions with Ganapathy, the elusive general secretary of the CPI-Maoist. “I am biased,” Jan Myrdal says candidly. “We all are; there is [...]
