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Archive for October, 2010

The poems of Udaan

[amazon_link id=”B008C7OYUK” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I recently reviewed the film Udaan at my Movie Review Blog. And one of the lovely things about the movie (among the other lovely things) was it’s heartfelt poetry. Here is one poem (and here is another) by Amitabh Bhattacharya that I’ve managed to find on the internet (courtesy Abhijit Bhaduri’s blog). […]

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My favorite female character

The below post is written for the “Favorite Female Character Contest” at Womens Web. I’ve written about the “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” before. Reading it is like eating comfort food. This series features Precious Ramotswe, a female detective in Botswana. While I have come across many interesting characters in fiction, when it comes […]

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Contest : Your favorite female character

A-ha, a contest for all book-lovers! If you love to read, are partial to interesting characters (and who’s not ?), this one is for you. Basically you have to write a post, email or comment about your favorite fictional female character. To read complete rules, see the Womens Web page, here. Sound fun ? I […]

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Book Review : The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Title : The White Tiger Author : Aravind Adiga Genre : Realistic fiction Pages : 288 Publisher : Free Press Rating : 4/5 It has taken forever to get this book off my Reading List and into my hands, because I thought it would be a) Boring (did I really want to read about a […]

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