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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshSep 22, 2023 | 16:59
A City Happens in Love by Ravish Kumar: Only Lovers Left Alive

There’s plenty to take away from journalist-author Ravish Kumar’s life and body of work over the years, but one can draw inspiration from the most unlikely corners, such as his stories in A City Happens in Love – chronicling the little details of love and longing in the cramped recesses of big city life.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshSep 15, 2023 | 17:17
No Spin by Shane Warne: Turn, turn, turn again

Shane Warne would have turned fifty-four this week. That's sadly not meant to be and now the closest we can get to this modern-day maestro is either through highlights of his career, and there are so many, on YouTube videos or reading about his life. And this stream-of-consciousness memoir from Shane, written with the help of commentator and broadcaster Mark Nicholas, is perhaps always going to be the best place to start.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshSep 01, 2023 | 17:48
Mooncop by Tom Gauld: A moony meteorological mood piece

This past week was all about the moon. We continue to reach out to every poet's favourite celestial body that lights up our night sky, and maybe someday our species will find a way to colonise it too. Tom Gauld’s Mooncop imagines that scenario and goes beyond – told from the perspective of a nameless lunar policeman on the moon who goes about his days, solving petty problems of the few remaining inhabitants.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshAug 25, 2023 | 18:28
Ants Among Elephants: Annihilation of Hate by Sujatha Gidla

As a reader and citizen of this country – which is still unable to junk the stench of the regressive caste system into the garbage bin of history – you must read the astonishing Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla. Most “upper caste” people who were born and raised in India have at least once said or heard someone say: “I’m not aware of my caste.” Gidla’s simply told yet deeply affecting book must be kept on the bedside table of all of them.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshAug 18, 2023 | 17:52
The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi: A portrait of the artist through young men

This is a collection of stories about the private lives of ordinary, working-class Japanese men who are struggling to make ends meet – performing menial and physically laborious jobs – offered to us without any hint of judgement.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshAug 11, 2023 | 17:25
Oh William by Elizabeth Strout: Unspoken intimacies

Oh William! is the third book in the Lucy Barton series by Elizabeth Strout, and how it got its title is a little story in itself. When My Name Is Lucy Barton, the very first Lucy Barton book, was about to be staged in New York, Strout was observing the gifted actor Laura Linney – who was playing the lead – in her rehearsal space.

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Koel Purie Rinchet
Koel Purie RinchetAug 11, 2023 | 08:01
Book Excerpt: Clearly Invisible in Paris

An excerpt from Koel Purie Rinchet's debut book, Clearly Invisible in Paris.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshAug 04, 2023 | 16:57
The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin by Manu S Pillai: A brief history of India

Today's recommendation is Manu S Pillai's delightfully brisk 2019 anthology titled The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History. Unlike his other books, this collection presents a series of essays that also tells India's story but through short and compelling unconnected chapters.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshJul 28, 2023 | 17:40
The Vegetarian by Han Kang: You are what you eat

Until yesterday, I hadn't been able to decide the name of the book I should be talking about in this week's column. When a couple of days ago, a war broke out on where-else-but-Twitter between vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshJul 21, 2023 | 17:33
Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar: Blue is also the Coldest Colour

The film, like most screen adaptations, failed to do justice to the evocative and atmospheric text on which it is based, even though both are created by noted Marathi filmmaker and writer Sachin Kundalkar.

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