This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. We also interview director Saaed Mirza on his memoir of his friend Kundan Shah, and pay tribute to ‘City of Joy’ writer Dominique Lapierre. Meanwhile, this book is an excellent chronicle and analysis of the intervening golden …
Some years ago, there was a photograph of a young boy, a pre-teen, being bathed in the open by a white woman who was a “follower of Mother”. Danny Boyle immortalised and celebrated Indian poverty without irony as “Jai Ho” in Slumdog Millionaire ; Katherine Boo Captured “Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” in Behind the Beautiful Forevers. …
Published : Dec 05, 2022 13:15 IST French writer Dominique Lapierre, the author of best-selling books on India like Freedom at Midnight and City of Joy and whose novels sold tens of millions of copies, has died. “At 91, he died of old age,” his wife Dominique Conchon-Lapierre told the French newspaper Var-Matin on December 4. The Albanian nun reportedly …
