Articles for His Writing

From the hills to your heart
6 months, 3 weeks ago

From the hills to your heart

New Indian Express  

Not all superheroes wear capes Renowned for his writing for readers across age groups, the author emphasises the importance of capturing the attention of readers from the very first page, especially when writing for children. Each character in Ruskin Bond’s stories — whether it’s Arun from Women on Platform 8, Rusty from The Room on the Roof, or Rakesh from …

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The magic of Gabo
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The magic of Gabo

The Hindu  

Remember how the “most handsome and well-mannered” Italian blond Pietro Crespi died in Cien años de soledad? Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work is involved … I never have done any carpentry but it’s the job I admire most, especially because you can never find anyone to do it for you.” While recollecting his father’s memory, …

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Abraham Verghese: On healing, writing and his memories of Kerala
1 year, 1 month ago

Abraham Verghese: On healing, writing and his memories of Kerala

Live Mint  

Chapter 2 of Abraham Verghese’s latest novel, The Covenant Of Water, describes a wedding. The book remains on The New York Times and National Indie best-seller lists, half-a-dozen international editions are already out and, of course, American talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s enthusiastic promotion of her 101st book club pick has no doubt vastly expanded its fame and reach. The …

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How John le Carré ran his many mistresses like spies - with code names, dead drops and safe houses: Only now, after the great writer's death, can his biographer reveal the true scale of his philanderi
1 year, 2 months ago

How John le Carré ran his many mistresses like spies - with code names, dead drops and safe houses: Only now, after the great writer's death, can his biographer reveal the true scale of his philanderi

Daily Mail  

The marriage of spy novelist David Cornwell - better known to the world by his pen name, John le Carré - to his second wife Jane was often characterised in public as an ideal partnership. Cornwell's marriage to his second wife Jane was often characterised in public as an ideal partnership He claimed that these extra-marital relationships were 'impulsive, driven, …

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DC insider on the 10 most crucial days of the Obama presidency
1 year, 6 months ago

DC insider on the 10 most crucial days of the Obama presidency

Raw Story  

Other than being able to string a sentence together, empathy is the most important quality in a speechwriter. Chief White House speechwriter Cody Keenan focuses on this extraordinary period in his revelatory and lively new book Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America. Robin Lindley: Congratulations Mr. Keenan on your engaging new book Grace, a revelatory …

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Noted writer K.V. Tirumalesh no more
1 year, 10 months ago

Noted writer K.V. Tirumalesh no more

The Hindu  

Noted Kannada writer K.V. Though primarily recognised as a poet and honoured with the Sahitya Akademi award for his innovative work Akshaya Kavya — “a long narrative sans story or aim” as he described it — he wrote extensively across genres, including plays, short stories, novels, translations and criticism. Noted critic Rahamath Tarikere said Tirumalesh, like Girish Karnad, Vivek Shanbhag, …

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True as false: The world of Jeyamohan
2 years, 2 months ago

True as false: The world of Jeyamohan

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 19, 2022 19:26 IST Franz Kafka believed we should read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. “Jeyamohan wasn’t really keen on a translation in English, but I felt my experience, the emotional journey, the therapeutic moments I encountered experiencing these stories, should be shared among the English-speaking readers,” Priyamvada told Frontline during a …

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Man, 24, who stabbed Salman Rushdie had fake driver's license in name of HEZBOLLAH commander
2 years, 4 months ago

Man, 24, who stabbed Salman Rushdie had fake driver's license in name of HEZBOLLAH commander

Daily Mail  

The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie held a fake driver's license bearing the surname of an infamous Hezbollah commander, it has been claimed. A Homeland Security Investigations Police officer enters the building where Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New Jersey New Jersey Police officers stand guard near the building where alleged attacker Hadi Matar, …

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Is Hermann Hesse’s philosophical fiction ready for a revival?
2 years, 4 months ago

Is Hermann Hesse’s philosophical fiction ready for a revival?

The Independent  

In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. “He really is a Weltburger, a citizen of the world.” open image in gallery Hermann Hesse Museum in the Ticino region where the writer moved in 1919 Hesse’s books weren’t …

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Ruskin Bond: transcending time
2 years, 7 months ago

Ruskin Bond: transcending time

The Hindu  

A young boy discovers a hidden pool inside a forest and rushes to inform his two best friends. Other short stories like The Blue Umbrella and Susanna’s Seven Husbands were adapted as feature films, as was his novel A Flight of Pigeons. Bond even made a cameo appearance in Saat Khoon Maaf, which was based on Susanna’s Seven Husbands. Take …

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Norman Mailer is far from canceled. He’s history
2 years, 11 months ago

Norman Mailer is far from canceled. He’s history

LA Times  

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Norman Mailer would not be pleased to be canceled in 2022. To begin at the beginning, the upstart newsletter the Ankler published a story by Michael Wolff alleging that a forthcoming collection of Mailer’s political writing had been “canceled” by his publisher due to objections by a “junior staffer” to the 1957 …

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Appreciation: Art critic Dave Hickey was known for his blazing and cantankerous wit
3 years, 1 month ago

Appreciation: Art critic Dave Hickey was known for his blazing and cantankerous wit

LA Times  

Dave Hickey was a writer. “Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy”, a collection of 23 columns gathered from the publisher’s monthly magazine, applied the dragon’s fearsome breath to culture both high and pop. Dave Hickey’s “Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy” was published in 1997. Since the late 1960s, he’d run A Clean Well-Lighted Place, a short-lived but …

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