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Ash and Smoke (short story) - Part 3
“The brevity of the message enraged Madhu, and she sent a long message to Sanjay, even giving vent to the idea that she had jostled with many times…
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Ash and Smoke (short story) - Part 2
“… but for women like her—late thirties, wearing a chikan kurta, driving a Micra, teenage son alongside—buying cigarettes could create a little grenade…
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Ash and Smoke (short story) - Part 1
“… the pattern of their marriage was so set that it needed no comment or deliberation. They were what they were: a couple decoupled from inception.“
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A translation win is a win for Indian English
… which is great, except for essentialists who don’t rate us Englishwaalas
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Heist, My Sweet
On the inevitable disappointments of crime novels, the absence of heist novels in India, and David Goodis’ The Burglar as novel and film
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’it may be sporadic, but when there it is always intense’
On Flaubert’s Parrot, the futility and necessity of describing facial features, and how webby an amateur’s reading life progressively becomes
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echoes & originals: from season 2
The short-story-writing program I launched in November 2024 concluded its second season, for new and repeating participants, yesterday. Here’s a report…
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The Whole World Now
Two days back, I read a Samuel Beckett short story, For to End Yet Again. The term ‘short story’ may not actually apply readily to it; and whatever it…
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A Paragraph of Nabokov
"Grouping a type of horse-drawn cab with a type of beard style and a type of butterfly: this is not the kind of sentence one reads every day."
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