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A Royal Curry

Posted in Author speak on May 17, 2011 | Comments Off

The Business Standard profiles the author of three well-received books – Shrabani Basu – who describes how she discovered the ‘lost’ diaries of Queen Victoria’s Hindustani tutor and her work on a memorial project for an Indian princess who spied for the British during World War II. Click here for the article by Kanika Datta.

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But seriously…..

Posted in Author speak, tagged , on December 19, 2010 | Comments Off

Manu Joseph’s first ‘Serious Men’ recently won The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010. The author speaks to Nandini Krishnan about the success of his book, his own reading habits and his take on writing. Link here

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You’ll love this asana

Posted in Author speak, tagged , on December 18, 2010 | Comments Off

Sorry to keep coming back to this pose…er, prose. But we couldn’t help but notice plenty of references to this book in the media. In this article / interview published in LiveMint, Author Milan Vohra says “I was always clear that I wanted to be a writer, but at the time I was growing up, there [...]

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Mind it. Your mind, that is

Posted in Author speak on December 17, 2010 | Comments Off

In the book ‘Black Swan’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb attempted to see the connections between luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge into one tome.  The book certainly raised expectations. The main himself raises eyebrows – part literary essayist, part empiricist, part researcher, part no-nonsense businessman, he spent eighteen years as a mathematical trader, and was the Dean’s Professor [...]

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Spice and all thats nice

Posted in Author speak, tagged , on December 16, 2010 | Comments Off

Madhur Jaffrey, the doyen of  Indian cookbooks, an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and at ease with Merchant Ivory films says that spices form the colour pallette of India cuisine. Check out this article on the subject. Here’s a link to an article / email interview published in the Hindu of Dec [...]

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No bleak visage, this

Posted in Author speak, Happenings, Opinion on September 28, 2010 | Comments Off

Moving away from marriage, infidelity, betrayal etc, the focus of her earlier books, Shobhaa’s new tome ‘Shobhaa at Sixty’ is expected to hit the shelves very soon. Here’s what she has to say: In my new book (Shobhaa at Sixty), I have jauntily declared, “60 is the new 40.’’ I mean that all the way. [...]

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Keeping it simple, silly

Posted in Author speak, Humour, tagged , on September 3, 2010 | Comments Off

Its a book, ok? B-O-O-K!!!!!! Just in case you don’t get it, here’s what is mean: More on the issue here

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Remembering Kafka

Posted in Author speak on July 3, 2010 | Comments Off

Today is the birthday of one of the most influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature. (Source: Wikipedia) Franz Kafka was born in July 3rd 1883. His unique body of [...]

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Interview with John Grisham

Posted in Author speak on June 25, 2010 | Comments Off

John Grisham talks about how he moved from being a mediocre lawyer to a best selling author. Check out the interview here.

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The essence of success

Posted in Author speak, tagged , on May 21, 2010 | Comments Off

Subroto Bagchi on what really success means. Click here for our earlier post on meeting up with him over a Bangalore Book Club reading session. Jeff Howe’s One Book One Twitter is a book club aimed at bringing together readers from across the globe. Arudhati Roy profiled in CNN’s Connect the World article.  The Financial [...]

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