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The First Word War Cooling stars WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON has been publishing a series of short "eminent lives", by eminent authors: Edmund White on Proust, Garry Wills on St. Augustine, Peter Gay on Mozart, Jonathan Spence on Mao and Karen Armstrong on the Buddha. The first ... More THE VIEW FROM KING STREET The younger sister CHRISTOPHER HURST reviews the life of Princess Margaret, who died on February l0. More
No easy art KHUSHWANT SINGH sat in a cavernous armchair, a marmalade cat snoozing by him, as he talked to ANURADHA ROY about his writing and his life. Excerpts from the interview. You've lived through many significant periods ... More
A novel in love lettersFAIZ AHMED FAIZ, one of the great Urdu poets of the last Century, often quoted when he was down and out, the Persian poet Hafiz of Shiraz as saying nothing in this world was without barriers, except love — but only in the beginning. What, ... More BOOKWATCH 
Laments of innocenceTHAT writing fiction isn't the monkish occupation it used to be is demonstrated by Days of Innocence, a book published as a festschrift to Ruskin Bond, who wryly confesses in the afterword that until recently he thought a ... More BOOKWATCH Afghans' Anne Frank? LATIFA was a teenager in Kabul when the Taliban's flag — ironically , it is a white one — began to fly in the city. Her family was one of the more affluent in Afghanistan despite being ruined several times over by the depredations of ... More BOOKWATCH Antique matrimonial "Two European Gentlemen, in good circumstances, agreeable exterior, and pleasant and refined manners, having no opportunity of being introduced to the society of `ladies'; and being in the prime of manhood, and very desirous to find for ... More BOOKWATCH Write byte WITH the media having used the recent festival of literature as a pretext to republish comparative tables of royalty advances Indian novelists in English have received, and with the vast number of nine-day wonders being churned out by publishers, ... More WORDSPEAK Origins of `India' DURING the irregular appearance of this column in the past months, readers had varied reactions. To those who sent get-well-soon messages, thanks, but it was merely travel, not illness, that accounts for the spotty performance. Those who wanted ... More 
First ImpressionsGOA, circa 1990s. A small ward, myriad characters. Unfortunately each one fits neatly into the concepts of typical Goanese traits. A tavern called "Elsa's Joint", the meeting place for all the men in the ward. From the wayward John to the ... More
Khushwant will be KhushwantSometimes touching but more often embarrassing, Khushwant Singh's autobiography typifies the man: honest, unpretentious and one who pursues his likes and dislikes about people all the way, says AMITA MALIK. More FOLKLORE Alternative histories Presented with sincerity and charm, this collection of Dogri folk tales keeps the magic of `Once upon a time' alive, says VIJAYA RAMASWAMY. More ENGLISH STUDIES The solitary reader For those impatient with, or unsympathetic to, the current ideology-based pedagogical configuration, Bloom's How to Read and Why will be astonishingly refreshing, says M.S. NAGARAJAN. More Ground realities The strength of these two books lies in the fact that there is no attempt to slot the Taliban and the United States into polarised roles of the devil and the saint respectively, says ACHIN VANAIK. More HISTORIOGRAPHY 
Reconstructing a cultural ecologyHistory possesses no fixed genre. More than questions of genre, it is the texture of the narrative that is revealing in historiography. Textures of Time recovers texts previously considered non-historical and establishes that history is not an alien import brought in by the British, says R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI. More CULTURE 
A beautiful mindA book of essays and another of interviews, by a man many consider one of the most important thinkers of our times. More |
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