Banned Books Week: Ashok Malik on unbanning the banned
Alexander Campbell was a Scotsman who served in the 1950s as Time magazine’s correspondent in New Delhi. In 1958, he wrote a book called The Heart of India, which was […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Banned Books Week: Banning Books In India
A brief look at the history of banned books in India: The 1930s: Almost exactly 70 years since Katherine Mayo’s Mother India was placed on the list of banned books, the […]
Writers, September: Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj reads from Untouchable, for the South Asian Literary Recordings Project http://lcweb2.loc.gov/mbrs/master/salrp/02001.mp3 (Amardeep Singh (@Electrostani on Twitter) on why he thinks Untouchable is a copout: http://www.electrostani.com/2010/09/why-i-dont-like-mulk-raj-anands.html) “Presumably, […]
The Unprivate Lives of Authors
(Two linked columns, published in August/ September 2012 in the Business Standard.) The faint sense that Shashi Tharoor had been cloned by his publishing house last week was inescapable. There […]
Column: A perforated history
(Published in the Business Standard, September 2012) “I was born in the city of Bombay…once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date.” And […]
The Wildings: Reviews, in Junglee
(For The Wildings website, go here; to order a copy, go here.) Reviewer, hard at work. What the reviewers say: (Mostly) Ayes: “A few pages into Nilanjana Roy’s The Wildings, you’ll wish you had […]
