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Monthly Archives: July 2012
The Wildings: Excerpt
From the blurb: In the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi, lives a small band of cats. Miao, the clan elder, a wise, grave Siamese; […]
Timeline of censorship
Poster by Sanjay Sipahimalani Timeline of book bans/ challenges and censorship in the arts in India An indicative list of key bans and challenges in India since Independence, with an […]
Blogs, chai, gupshup
(From Edward Lear’s poems) Blogs and random conversations: The Kitabkhana Archives Run by Hurree Babu (I stole him from Kim, assuming Kipling wouldn’t mind one cunning Bengalee borrowing from another), […]
Gender: Selected columns
Selected columns: 2004: The twilight gender (The Kolkata Telegraph) “Because the state doesn’t recognise the existence of a third gender—there is no box marked ‘other’ next to the ones marked […]
English Vegetables, Desi Steak
Galangal and lemon grass were piled up in hillocks. The mushrooms were fresh and came in four varieties-white, dried dhingri, dried shiitake and dried, slightly dubious porcini. “Madam,” said my […]
Welcome!
The Wildings, published by the Aleph Book Company.
Sangam House residencies: last date July 31
The applications for the Sangam House Residencies for 2012/ 2013 are online. The last date to apply is July 31. I spent two weeks at their Tranquebar residency last year. […]
Anthologies Etc
Flipkart page: Civil Lines 6: New Writing From India Infibeam page: A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing On Food (limited copies available) Children’s stories: Scholastic page: […]
Delhi: Literary Map
(This was commissioned by Raghu Karnad for Time Out Delhi, and created by Akila Seshayee, who patiently accommodated a growing list of quotes. The great Dilli novel may remain elusive, […]
