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Writing a Cylinder
Cylinders are to ceramics what the alphabet is to writing, and the first thing all potters have to learn is to throw a cylinder. This sounds much, much easier than it is.I’ve been at potters’ wheels in...
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The more things change the more they remain the same
Ando Mura, Yamato, Japan (about 1939)Dear L,How your family and your work getting on?Nearly everyday we talk about you but it is too far Yamato and St Ives... Here plum blossom and nightingale came,...
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Hideaway in the Hills
Share on emailShare on printShare on facebookShare on twitterMore Sharing ServicesRanikhet's own traditions and its unique culturehave trumped the charmsof Durga Puja, says Anuradha Roy(The Telegraph,...
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The Cook’s Story
‘It was noted with envy and admiration that the breakfast in these households consisted of eggs, toast and jam instead of vegetable bhujia with paratha, and that even the women had begun to use spoons,...
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KINDS OF MAKING | MURAKAMI'S GARDENING MANUAL
You get the feeling from Murakami’s latest novel, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki, that while the rest of Japan was waiting with champagne on ice for his Nobel, he took a more sardonic view of the circus....
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When Pirates Become Saviours
The most surreal aspect of these last few days has been watching prominent, liberal and highly regarded feminists on the same side as right-wing politicians burning effigies of the BBC as they demanded...
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Book Detours
Published in Scroll.in, April 2015The other day, my father-in-law was in a reflective mood brought on by looking at his accounts ledgers at the end of the financial year. He concluded with a sigh that...
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"Incredibly timely and extremely brave" - The Nation
On the second page of highly acclaimed Indian novelist Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter, a 7-year-old child witnesses the murder of her father by axe-wielding masked men who have invaded their home....
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OUT AT LAST!
Sleeping on Jupiter was released in April in India (published by Hachette India) and in Britain (published by Maclehose Press).The formal "launch" was at Asia House London. A complete account,...
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From the Reviews
"The themes of innocence stolen, the refuge of the imagination, and the inclination to look away are handled with sensitivity and subtlety in some of the best prose of recent years encountered by this...
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Mango Republics
Yesterday Suman, a friend who lives down the stairs, handed me a mango. It was one of the few she in turn had been gifted by her brother who in turn had been gifted by…. Well, this was no ordinary...
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UNDER THE FLYOVER
At nine-thirty on a weekday morning in the monsoon, Delhi’s Defence Colony flyover is a noisy, semi-immobilecaterpillar. The rain always makes the traffic inexplicably denser. Nothing’s moving, there...
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The Beauty of Just Being
Sometime in August last year, Manisha and I went through a series of one-line messages to each other to find a date when we were both free to meet for lunch. Two days before we were to meet though, I...
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The Times Literary Supplement, October 30, 2015
The Train to JarmuliKate Webb"Roy does not adjudicate between these positions. She holds her story in a fine balance, scrupulously turning from one perspective to another in order to show the often...
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The Storyteller from the Hills: by Anjali Thomas
Image: Madhu KapparathThe characters in Sleeping on Jupiter are like ghosts. They are persistent in their haunting and linger long after you read the final line of the novel. Even their creator...
View ArticleA poem for the new year and some books to read
The year is in its last week and most of the annual Best Books lists are out. Sleeping on Jupiter is in several of them and in great company.THE NATIONAL, UAE: Top Ten International Titles of the...
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Anything But Books
One of the best things about literary festivals is meeting another writer with whom you feel a sense of immediate fellowship. Tishani Doshi (writer, dancer, poet) and I met in Galle and then saw each...
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A Writer's Room They Said
A magazine somewhere asked me for pictures of my work space, they publish a regular feature about writers’ work rooms they said. As an example of what they meant, they sent me links to previous such...
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THROWING IT OUT AND STARTING AGAIN
One evening in 2007, just as I was sitting down to dinner in Delhi, my then-brand-new publisher phoned from London. In the marvelously parenthetical, elliptical manner that was to become familiar to me...
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AMERICAN HOT POT
By the Missisippi river in MinneapolisLoud-voiced Woman: "This is a purebred dog, Ah paid 2,500 dollars for that dog."Mumbling Man: "I'd -a given ya a baby. I'd-a given ya a baby."Loud-voiced Woman:...
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