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In Altre Parole: Kitaab Review of Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words
If Jhumpa Lahiri had not been so celebrated already as a fiction writer par excellence, this book from her would be a decent offering in English and perhaps a remarkable one written in Italian by a...
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The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Jessica Faleiro
By Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? To do otherwise would be to deny an integral part of myself. I write because I must, because of my addiction to the feel...
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The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Shazia Omar
By Farah Ghuznavi Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? Writing is my favourite form of self-torture. Playing with words is pleasurable, fantasizing plotlines from foreplay to climax is...
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Penguin celebrates its 30th year of publishing in India
Leading publisher Penguin completes 30 years in India and to commemorate its journey, Penguin said it will unveil ‘Penguin30’, a selection of India’s most brilliant and visionary writing in the English...
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Judging a cover by its text
By Mini Kapoor Jhumpa Lahiri explains why the first time she sees a cover for her books is always upsetting It never fails to shock or thrill me when I see a new, re-jacketed edition of a favourite...
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Why Jhumpa Lahiri writing on book jackets is bad news for the writer and the...
By Utpal Kumar Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest book, The Clothing of Books, is all about book covers. Advocating what she calls “the naked book”, the Pulitzer winner emphasises that “the dressed book no longer...
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Indian-American authors join anti-travel ban chorus
By Lalit K Jha Washington, Feb 22 (PTI) Indian-American authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Anish Kapoor joined scores of other writers to oppose the controversial travel ban by US President Donald Trump, asking...
View Article“The tragedy of going back”: Jhumpa Lahiri on her work as a translator
In 2012, having published four books and won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Jhumpa Lahiri moved to Rome. There, she experienced what she described as “a radical transition, a state of complete...
View ArticleBookmarked Musings: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies- Stories of...
In this literary essay, Ramlal Agarwal explores Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri and notes how in her short stories, she steers clear of cultural confrontation. Jhumpa Lahiri, born of Bengali...
View ArticleBookmarked Musings: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland by Ramlal Agarwal
In this essay, Ramlal Agarwal explores Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (Random House India, 2014) and its main protagonist Gauri’s perspective on life vis-a-vis Ashima’s perspective from The Namesake by...
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