Author: Florence Smith
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‘Dark Star’ by Ranbir Sidhu: Of a lie that tells truth & hides it : The Tribune India
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[ad_1] Rajesh Sharma RANBIR SIDHU lives in Athens. This is his sixth book. At its heart is the question of how to die. An old woman is silently talking to herself, waiting to die. She was married in London, lived for some time in California, and has returned with her husband to his ancestral home…
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Praveen Davar sets the record straight in ‘Freedom Struggle and Beyond’ : The Tribune India
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[ad_1] Mani Shankar Aiyar THIS is a most informative collection of essays profiling the stalwarts of the freedom movement. The articles include succinct biographical sketches of the key nation-builders after Independence. The book is rounded off with insightful pieces on the wars in which Independent India has been involved and on the controversies stirred by…
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Spymaster AS Dulat says it from heart in his memoir ‘A Life in the Shadows’ : The Tribune India
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[ad_1] Sandeep Dikshit IN the words of life-long spymaster AS Dulat, trouble has followed him wherever he has gone. After placid years at a desk-bound stint in the Intelligence Bureau, he learnt that the field was a different ballgame when thrown in the deep-end. The deadly swirl of militancy in Kashmir, the Kandahar hijacking, the…
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‘The Last Heroes’: P Sainath’s book chronicles the real heroes of freedom struggle : The Tribune India
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[ad_1] KL Tuteja P SAINATH is a reputed journalist, erudite scholar and Ramon Magsaysay awardee. He is also the founder-editor of People’s Archives of Rural India (PARI). His fascinating book broadly deals with the history of India’s freedom struggle written from the perspective of common people. Sainath provides a graphic account of the participation of…
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Don Paterson: ‘Poetry often involves obsessive personalities’ | Don Paterson
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[ad_1] Don Paterson, 59, is one of our most outstanding poets, a winner of the Whitbread poetry prize, the Costa poetry award, all three Forward prizes, the TS Eliot prize (twice), and the Queen’s gold medal for poetry. He is about to publish Toy Fights, a memoir of his life up to the age of…
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The outsider: why Katherine Mansfield still divides opinion 100 years after her death | Books
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[ad_1] How and why did Katherine Mansfield provoke such violent extremes of admiration and hostility, both during her life and after it? Fifty years after her death, the BBC television series A Picture of Katherine Mansfield gave a fair example of her reputation in 1973. Tall, intense Vanessa Redgrave played Mansfield; short, baffled Annette Crosbie…
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Book Box: The Life-Changing Magic of Reading Plans
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[ad_1] Dear Reader, Last year, I enjoyed the range of reading. But it wasn’t always like this. I used to be dissatisfied with my reading — too little economics, not enough technology and life sciences. And I definitely should be reading more books on writing, I’d tell myself. Reading had become a source of guilt.…
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‘It altered my entire worldview’: leading authors pick eight nonfiction books to change your mind | Books
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[ad_1] Steven Pinker Shortly after publishing my book The Better Angels of Our Nature, on the historical decline of violence, I attended a conference sponsored by a foreign policy magazine at which a journalist asked me: “What would it take to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide?” Thinking it was a trick question, I quipped: “Redefine ‘poverty’.”…
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Tom Gauld on the author’s AI assistant – cartoon
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The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino review – a box of delights | Italo Calvino
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[ad_1] Can there be much material left in Italo Calvino’s desk drawers? Since the death of the puckish Italian polymath in 1985, no fewer than six collections of his nonfiction have appeared in English, gathered into the autobiographical (The Road to San Giovanni, Hermit in Paris) or the literary-critical (Six Memos for the Next Millennium,…
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Hanif Kureishi says he may never be able to walk or hold pen again after fall in Rome | Books
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[ad_1] The novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi has said he may never be able to walk or use a pen again after a fall on Boxing Day in Rome. The Buddha of Surburbia author has now tweeted about the incident, following reports in the Italian media that he was in intensive care. “I had just…
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Review: Nehru’s India; History In Seven Myths by Taylor C Sherman
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[ad_1] Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi are the two most ideological Prime Ministers of modern India. While Nehru made concerted efforts to turn the country towards the Left, Prime Minister Modi has been consistently pushing it towards the Right. In my view, scholarly comparisons between Nehru and Modi are more apt than those between Modi…