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My dad late Commander C Narayanan, Vizag, mid 1970s. He taught me to appreciate good writing and to sniff out fakery
#Father'sDay
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On the @htTweets reading list this week - an anthology that depicts the various forms of the Devi, a meditative novel that looks at travel and otherness, and an early record of the Partition as it was experienced in Delhi
@PanMacIndia
@WestlandBooks
@unlimited_women
hindustantimes.com/s/1hLqMXQ
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:“Shakespeare was also a number nerd”
- @MarcusduSautoy, author, Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity, talks to @simarb_92 about the connections between the realms of mathematics, creative art and nature
hindustantimes.com/s/1hLKkFM
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"Indignity by @lea_ypi argues that hope cannot be found in perfect political systems because such systems do not exist."
- @pranavi_sharma reviews
hindustantimes.com/s/1hBrmHw
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Persian Nights; An Indian Child in Iran by @alakaskinner pairs nostalgia with realism, never descending into sentimentalism. Review by @chintanwriting
hindustantimes.com/s/1hLqsZU
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Anant Sonawane’s Maya: The Biography of a Tiger, which traces the journey of the Tadoba-Andhari Reserve’s most famous female tiger, inspires a deep appreciation for these magnificent cats
- @LamatAyub reviews
@mytadoba
@HarperCollinsIN
hindustantimes.com/s/1hLBD84
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"Chutney is extremely inventive. Even when you have nothing in the kitchen, you can still make a chutney with the bits and bobs you do have"
- @SudhaTilak, author, Chutney Chronicles, talks abt all sorts of mouthwatering chutneys from across the world. Click on link in thread
@BloomsburyIndia
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On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of Anant Sonawane’s Maya: The
Biography of a Tiger, and @alakaskinner's Persian Nights + an interview with @MarcusduSautoy, author, Blueprints; How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
@mytadoba
@HarperCollinsIN
@speakingtiger14
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Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with @SudhaTilak, author Chutney Chronicles, and to a review of @lea_ypi's Indignity
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Read the Hindustan Times Books page in the epaper:
epaper.hindustantimes.com/ed…
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My review of the @TheBookerPrizes longlisted The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams for @utterflea at @HindustanTimes @htTweets
@HarperCollinsIN
hindustantimes.com/s/1h6LoZc
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Author of The Carnatic Wars,
Venkatesh Parthasarathy on how the East India Company functioned in 18th century southern India. Click on the link in thread for the full conversation on the Books & Authors #podcast
#goodreads #bookstagram #BeforeColonialism
@HarperCollinsIN
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Author of The Carnatic Wars, Venkatesh Parthasarathy on why the English East India Company mqnaged tovestablished itself in India when trading companies of the French and other European powers couldnt. Click on the link in the thread for the full conversation
@HarperCollinsIN
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Spent the last week running around to docs etc cos my mother's vision suddenly deteriorated. What do poor people in this country do in old age and in times of ill health? Also, without family support people are doomed. Just fr that perhaps we should go back to having more kids
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