Mieko Kawakami exploded onto Japanese cultural scene first as a musician then as a poet and later as a blogger and finally as an award-winning novelist
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Major collections of Rabindranath Tagore’s English work published by Sahitya Akademi do not mention this interview. Most of the people I met on the voyage back…
Writer as a researcher goes to Telangana State Library to unearth the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and his tips to Americans. The pigeons chased each other…
Time-travelling gets a new meaning with Kawaguchi and his tales. Of course, conditions apply. Sit on a particular seat and a cup of coffee is going…
Exactly two years ago, Lucy Delap deconstructed the myth that feminism is all about euro-centrism in her marvellous work Feminisms: A Global History
Are the comic lovers a bunch of middle aged persons scrounging in old book shops? ‘No’, says the author. I always believed that my generation, who were…
The recently released book Athishaya Vara Prasadini, which contains notations of 50 rare Carnatic compositions, is a treasure for Carnatic musicians. Notating Carnatic compositions is not…
Knightfall suggests that even though indisputably dark, the Batman is a knight in shining armour. The Knightfall trilogy (Knightfall, Knightquest, Knightsend), by Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon,…
Piccadilly Book Stall in Delhi is a clear example of why one should never judge a bookstore by its window dressing The first thing I did…
Among the few biography/autobiographies of dancers, Dr Kanak Rele’s ‘Me & My Mohiniyattam’ is the latest. The book was released in Mumbai recently by another celebrity…