Twenty-six-year-old Shin Dong-hyuk may not be as famous Dith Pran, the Cambodian labour camp survivor in the 1984 screen drama, “The Killing Fields”, but his true survival story as a condemned political prisoner in North Korea who escaped is as powerful as it is unbelievable.
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This book may seem like any run-of-the-mill Mills and Boons story, but under the surface of romance and passion is the story of an independent woman – Sheena, Delhi
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Life may not be so funny and interesting, but one can always see it in a funny manner. I try to look at the lighter side of life. Of course, in a book there is some exaggeration.
A festival with a difference
Over April 21 and 22, Mumbai hosted its first literary festival for children. Held in the sprawling grounds of St Anthony’s School in Chembur in the city’s eastern suburbs, it was a wonderful occasion, filled with writing workshops, storytelling sessions, panel discussions, and much more. It was very heartening to...
Funny and furiousAfter the disappointment of his last book, The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq – called, among other things, “France’s greatest literary export” – returns to his audacious, sardonic self in his new novel, The Map and the Territory. While a lot is made of Houellebecq’s nihilism and despair (Elementary Particles,...
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