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Book review: Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor

      A wave of emotions An interesting debut from a promising new writer.     Kanishk Tharoor`s intriguingly titled book is a slim volume consisting of a dozen short stories. These stories span continents, oceans,  they go underwater at times, they swim among the stars at other times, and once, even descend into the hellish…

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Feature: The new reader, the new writer

Indian English literature It’s all about the money, stupid. Or is it?  Sheila Kumar| Change being a constant, we have been — ad nauseam — told for some time now that this is the post-CB age, the age of the new writer and the new reader. Commercial fiction has won the day, we are told….

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