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Book Launch: Mita Kapur’s The F-Word, also on stage HarperCollin’s Karthika VK

Book Launch: Mita Kapur’s The F-Word, also on stage HarperCollin’s Karthika VK

Twitter/Tehelka, 23 January 2011

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Bristling with rage over all that badnaam

Tuesday 18 January 2010, Deccan Herald http://174.133.94.26/content/129140/bristling-rage-over-all-badnaam.html Would a court order against two songs stop women, named either Sheila or Munni, from being teased or exploited, wonders Mita Kapur This can easily turn into a diatribe. I can predict rising feministic chauvinism and also rising frustration is same sex relationships. I can make sweeping statements like, ‘A lot has changed and a lot remains the same’. I can also say that eve teasing is going to acquire a tragi-comic status. Continue...

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Cooking up a storm

Cooking up a storm

Times of India [Chennai], 17 December 2010

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That four letter word

That four letter word

Indian Express, 15 December 2010

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The F-Word

The F-Word

People, December 2010

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THE WORLD OF BOOKS

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

Swagat, December 2o1o

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Kitchen Encounters

Indian Express, 24 December 2010 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/kitchen-encounters/728830/ In her first book The F-Word, Mita Kapur shows it’s the love for food that binds the family together. Food has always worked as the best adhesive when it comes to family bonds. This phenomenon, however, has never been described in so many words in India till Mita Kapur’s first book, The F-Word, reached the book stands recently. But then Kapur is gifted. She not only possesses a passion for cooking, but also knows Continue...

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That irresistible four letter word!

Buzz in town, Chennai 20 December 2010 http://www.buzzintown.com/lucknow/article-review–that-irresistible-four-letter-word/ref–home-article/id–2527.html Before you whip up concoctions and jump to conclusions, we’d like to state that “food” is the irresistible four letter word we are talking off…. The Madras Book Club together with the Prakriti Foundation, recently organized the launch of Mita Kapur’s book “The F-Word” at Taj Connemara, Chennai. If you think it’s a run-of-the-mill cook book we are talking about, you are sadly mistaken! This debutante author has come out with a Continue...

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Kitchen musings

Kitchen musings

The Hindu, 20 December 2010

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Mita Kapur’s book launched in Bombay by Shobhaa De

Friday, December 10, 2010 http://johnpmathew.blogspot.com/2010/12/mita-kapurs-book-launched-in-bombay-by.html Uggghhhhgggaaah! That’s the guttural sound I produced when I went to Harper Collins’ launch party for Mita Kapur’s F-word. The evening was full of surprises for me.  First surprise I get on crossing over to Eros Cinema is this: Eros is screening Hindi films. Gone are the days when I used to tremble with excitement when I would buy tickets for: Trinity Is Still My Name, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Towering Inferno, such like Continue...

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