Talk of the Town

Jaipur Lit Fest: Literary Schtik I Outlook I Kitabkhana I Tehelka
Galle Lit Fest: Deepika Shetty on CNA I Channel NewsAsia [Video]
The art of being alone I TODAY I Read@Peace
Ah, Nanabari I Fakrul Alam [New and exclusive]
Hutch Crossword shortlist out I Kitabkhana
The bard of Dollis Hill I The Guardian
Narrative non-fiction and Suketu Mehta's Maximum City I R N Book Show [Audio]
What can a poor boy do? (Fireproof by Rajkamal Jha) I The Guardian
KL Literary Festival 2007 announced I Silverfish Books
Notes from the Jaipur Lit Fest 2007 I Jabberwock
The end of pretension in publishing I Jabberwock
Sri Lanka's Galle Lit Fest kickstarted on Jan 10 I The Gale Literary Festival website
Fast-paced thriller retains language, flavour of Mumbai I Today
Kiran Desai's novel outrages Nepali readers I The Hindustan Times
Hero sum game I The Hindustan Times
Poetry on the podium-Singapore Literary Prize I Today
Nepali novelist's work long listed for the International Impac Dublin Award I Official website
Three books sold a minute at Borders I Today
Book-burning threat over town's portrayal in Booker-winning novel I The Guardian
The last Mughal chronicler I The Business Standard I Tehelka
On writing the great Singapore novel I Today
Us V/s Them: Sweden's International Book Festival I Outlook
The rise of Asian literature I Asia Calling (Radio)
The Last Mughal I The Independent
A writer above the political fray I International Herald Tribune
The last Mughal and a clash of civilizations I New Statesman
Writing between cultures I The Star Online
I don't feel any different: Kiran Desai Interview I Outlook
Expat or home-grown: The two faces of Indian literature I The Raw Story
Inheritance, a loss of 7 years I The Hindustan Times
"I Wish Indian Writing in English Were Less Triumphant" I DW
Rebel's reward I Today
Take a leaf out of this writer's books I Today
Asia rising: Felix Cheong I Today
On February Flowers by Fan Wu I Read@Peace
The republic of dreams I Tehelka
Hullabaloo in the Lit Orchard I Tehelka
Footloose in writer heaven I Tehelka
The man from far away: Kunal Basu I Tehelka
Novelist Kiran Desai wins the Man Booker Prize I AP
Encyclopaedia of the Indian Diaspora launched I Dream Ink
Salman Rushdie to teach and place his archive at Emory university I Emory Univ.
Censor sees through writer's guile in tale of China's blood-selling scandal I The Guardian
Focus on India in Frankfurt Book Fair I CNN-IBN I DNA
Book Review: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai I The Star
Modernity and Islam: The Writers' Perspective I Bibliobibuli
Murakami wins the world's richest short story prize I The Guardian
Acquittal for Turkish novelist I The Guardian
Global deal for novel by Chinese girl, 11 I The Guardian
India and Its locations: Interview with Amitav Ghosh I The Hindu
Novel Excerpts: From Suhyl Saadi's new novella, The Aerodrome I Scotia Review
Book Reviews: That Summer on Paris I No Onions Nor Garlic I The Suragi Tree
In Spite of the Gods: The Starge Rise of Modern India I Tehelka I<