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Four crime novels that could do with a dose of steroids
Boldly kickstarting two new imprints, Westland has simultaneously launched four crime novels by three debutants Gautam S. Mengle and Gabriel Khan are mentored by veteran crime reporter S. Hussain Zaidi, and Jigs Ashar by pulp-master Ravi Subramanian. The outcome may turn out to be a market success since these paperbacks are eminently suitable for newcomers to the genre they are nicely cosy, asexual bordering on neutered, and largely non-violent, save for the sporadic creepy moment.
To the latter category belong the horrific hangovers as portrayed by Mengle in
Intersections, which features API Mhatre, a policeman driven to drink by inner demons. He wakes up “sprawled out on the floor somewhere between the bathroom and the living room, with no memory of how he had ended up there. The fact that he was facing away from the bathroom indicated that he had been on his way back after relieving himself, and the absence of any b
Elena Ferrante’s stories are all the same and yet she impresses with each telling
It could be the air around Naples which breeds legends. Ancient myths crawl out of the Mediterranean and fill its crevices with hungry stories. The war-torn Naples as brought to life by the Italian writer, Alberto Moravia, is a city of betrayals from Christianity, from fascism, from communism, but, more precisely, from itself. History has rarely been kind to Naples.
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Ferocious desires
It’s in this cauldron of unfulfilled desires that Elena Ferrante has set her stories, rising almost like a female version of Moravia. Ferrante locates the four Neapolitan novels in the 1950s. Women are just beginning to shed their traditional role as home-makers; artists and writers debate about where they belong. Communism is the golden apple, while at every street corner there is a poster for the capita
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December 13, 2020 07:40 IST
Barack Obama plays observer, analyst and judge as he looks back at his historic time in the White House, where he chose to be a pragmatic centrist
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Barack Obama plays observer, analyst and judge as he looks back at his historic time in the White House, where he chose to be a pragmatic centrist
On January 20, 2009, before his inauguration as the first African-American President of the United States, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were driven to St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington DC, a block away from the White House. In the ‘Church of the Presidents’, as it’s often called, the Obamas had arranged a private service by their friend T.D. Jakes. The Dallas pastor, in his sermon, told the story from the Old Testament about the three men who refused to bow down to the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II, because they were faithful to God. They were thrown into a blazing furnace, but emerged unscathed as God protec