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I haven't been reading any Indian authors lately. Well, that's not exactly true. I borrowed Mohyna Srinivasan's The House on Mall Road and then Urmila Deshpande's A Pack of Lies but I couldn't make headway with either. A collection of Tamil short stories, Aseem Kaul's Etudes and Indra Sinha's Animal's People sit despondently on my bookshelf, half-eaten and abandoned. I suddenly seem to find Indian fiction a real chore. I am currently reading River of Smoke. Amitav Ghosh happens to be one of my favourite Indian writers and yet I have been progressing at a snail's pace.
Nevertheless, I am going to endeavour to read more Indian writers over the next 2 months. They're seriously under-represented on the web unless they fall into the mass-market bracket.
I just wish they weren't so ponderously dense and contrivedly nostalgic.
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Flikr CC image India Postage Stamp by Karen
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Wondering if you would be interested in a Literature Fest.
TATA Literature Live is a Mumbai LitFest which will be held on November 3, 4, 5 and 6 at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Nariman Point. Well-known writers, both international and domestic, have been invited and all four verticals (fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays) of literature will be represented.
If you want to attend or participate email me at ayushi.c90@gmail.com.
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