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Can Rushdie and Roy save the novel in the age of Trump and Modi?
By Angshukanta Chakraborty 2017 comes bearing gifts. At a time when the United States stands “unpresidented” and Donald Trump is unable to string a simple sentence together without committing grave...
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Why an increasing amount of South Asian writers are getting picked up by...
Gone are the days when readers would look up to international authors who had earlier set a benchmark for sophisticated literature. With Indians picking up more and more desi literature in English off...
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Arundhati Roy’s new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, draws mixed reviews
FT has described Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, as “Compelling”. “Ultimately, Roy’s admirers will not be disappointed,” writes Claire Messud in her FT review. “This...
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Arundhati Roy’s first novel for 20 years goes on sale
Arundhati Roy’s eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale worldwide on Tuesday, two decades after her prize-winning debut The God of Small Things propelled her to global fame and launched her career as...
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To tell a shattered story: Kitaab review of The Ministry of Utmost happiness...
by Usha K. R. The Ministry of Utmost happiness; Arundhati Roy; Penguin Random House India; 2017; pp 437 Arundhati Roy’s debut The God of Small Things (TGOST) was a dazzling first novel,...
View ArticleThe best fiction of 2017
One of the joys of the novel is its endless capacity for reinvention, and 2017 saw fiction writers trying out fresh approaches and new forms. The Man Booker winner was a debut novel from an author with...
View Article11 Books and their 11 spectacular trees
From Italo Calvino’s Oaks to Arundhati Roy’s Mangosteens, trees have been the stuff of inspiration for as long as we’ve told stories The year after I graduated college, I was broke. Hungry broke. So...
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I remember the time the first Penguin India books came out. I stood in Mumbai’s now-defunct Strand Book Stall, reading from Nisha Da Cunha’s beautiful stories, Old Cypress and then saw Padma Hejmadi’s...
View ArticleWriter, activist Arundhati Roy joins people’s movement against Indian...
You need to login to view this content. Please Login. Not a Member? Join UsThe post Writer, activist Arundhati Roy joins people’s movement against Indian government’s Nazi-like law that will ‘break the...
View ArticleBookmarked Musings: Arundhati Roy’s The God of small Things- Life after Death...
In this literary essay, Ramlal Agarwal talks about Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things which express in a language that is peculiar to the author, an idiom that conveys the rhythm and feel of...
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