Literary Occasions: Essays by V. S. Naipaul, introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra [in AsianWeek]
26 Sep, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian
Eleven essays capture almost a half-century of Nobel Prize-winning Naipaul’s literary life. The final essay, “Two Worlds,” which he begins and ends by invoking Proust, is the lecture he gave when accepting the Nobel...
Capturing her rollicking journey through India’s phenomenal Bollywood industry, journalist Hardy recounts the glitz and glitter of stars, their starlets, directors and various groupies as she searches for elusive pretty-boy, mega heartthrob Hrithik Roshan.
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