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Eco: The Ego Buster
A week before he departed, I Amazonned Umberto Eco’s Prague Cemetery. Was it a mere coincidence or was it a premonition that the author is soon destined for a cemetery? I have never loved Eco as a novelist. I loved his prose, however. His Misreadings is not only a fun to read but it provokes […]
A ‘Bagful’ of Tear-Wiping Humor
WRY HUMOUR. In one word or two, that’s what Anees Salim’s VANITY BAGH is. The tongue-in-cheek humour permeates every sentence and every word of the book. The book is in the form of a narrative or rather monologue by Imran Jabbari, an accused in the 11/11 serial blasts and sentenced for sixteen years in […]
Haruki Murakami on Writing Novels and Bob Dylan
Author Haruki Murakami has continued to answer 20 to 30 questions per day on his temporary ‘ask-me-anything’-style website, which has received more than 30,000 messages from fans according to organizers. Although the website stopped taking any new questions on Jan. 31, the author is scheduled to continue posting his replies until about late March. In […]
Forty Rules of Life Worth Living
After twenty years of marriage and building her whole life around her husband and three children, an American suburban housewife Ella Rubinstein realizes that she had not been able to make more of her life. Deep inside she becomes aware of her longing for love. Destiny puts in her hands an intriguing manuscript about the Sufi […]
Doyens of Letters No More
For readers of fiction, last few months have been the ones of loss. Here is a belated obituary of Gabriel Marquez, fondly called Gabbo, who created an alternative world, alternative Latin America so to say, which, with its wonderful mix of magic and the real, can give us an alternative to life ravaged by histories; of […]
Dostoyevsky’s Hell and Heaven
This is a space for clawing back the world of fiction to the aridity of our real lives. There are, sure, magnificent novels and short stories which have changed your life forever-fictions that helped you take reality more vigorously than ever before. Feel free to write about them and email them to kcsaleem07@gmail.com. Here Abhijith […]
Ramadan on the Move
Ramadan brings change and unity. Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq wanted to have a novel way of approaching the Ramadan and to consolidate their friendship. They conceived the project 30 Mosques in 30 days in 2009 and had iftar that year at 30 mosques in New York. This year they are visiting 30 different mosques […]
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