Category Archives: Miscellaneous

December 14, 2010

Booked for the day…

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Times of India, 4 December 2010

August 31, 2010

Cookfixiating

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I’m beginning to cookfixiate. Climbing down from office straight into the kitchen gave me reason to think like that. My tech consultant called, ‘You need to sort out the author’s categories better.’ ‘I’m in the kitchen, cooking mutton qorma.’ ‘At 10.30 am?’ ‘Yes, there’s a dinner at home today and I really don’t know what am I doing in the kitchen on a working day.’ Wicked cackle – ‘Oh, that’s the housewife in you breaking out.’ The onions were turning Continue...

April 4, 2010

Celebrating literature East and West

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… with a tenderness that can touch the heart, he allows himself like his characters, to be pulled first in one direction, then the other, but remains finally, a writer who insists on his doubleness, who refuses, inspite of everything, to choose between East and West . — From the blurb on Salman Rushdie’s East and West, a collection of short stories It was this ‘doubleness’ that was the flavour of the recently-concluded Jaipur Literature Festival. Authors who were born Continue...