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Feature: The Nilanjana Roy Interview

    Journalist, book reviewer and author Nilanjana Roy’s `The Wildings` goes with sure tread  into animal territory, telling us the story of Mara and a brood of felines, cheels, crows, wild pigs; a whole caboodle of  creatures, each one more interesting than the other. It’s the old tale of Good versus Evil but told…

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Humour: On writing a book

A Suitable Profession   The Book Fair put the idea into Mona’s head. India’s Suitable Boy fuelled the flames. Which is how Mona became a state-of-the-art writer. She acquired a permanent ink smudge on her retrousse nose and tucked a gold-embossed pen behind one shell-shaped ear. The day I went to see her, she was…

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Feature: The Jerry Pinto Interview

‘One per cent writing and 99 per cent rewriting’ Jerry Pinto speaks to SHEILA KUMAR about craft and the catharsis involved in telling the story of a mentally ill mother. Jerry Pinto is a writer who explores  all the avenues of writing that  open before him. His resume  includes teaching mathematics  and journalism, writing television  scripts,…

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