Name: Ashok K. Banker
Dateline: Mumbai, India
Weblog: indianenglish.blogspot.com
Articles: 37
First Published: Thursday, September 8, 2005
Last Published: Friday, November 11, 2005
Currently listing articles 37-1:
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Book Review: On Beauty by Zadie Smith— ...
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Book Review: Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler— A historical novel set in 16th century India tries unsuccessfully to whip up outrage against an iconic Christian saint.
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Book Review: Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card— ...
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Movie Review: Red Eye— ...
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DVD Review: Halloween— ...
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Book Review: Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy— Urban Shaman is a wholly original debut by a very talented new author who's going to go places very soon.
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Movie Review: Skeleton Key— Skeleton Key doesn't try to do too much, and what it does, it does damn well. That's its greatest strength.
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Book Review: Ecstasy and The Ascetic of Desire by Sudhir Kakar— ...
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Dispatches from Pod-istan: Part 2— ...
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Despatches from Pod-istan: Part I— ...
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Book Review: Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk— Herman Wouk's classic novel just might be the best book about the writing life ever penned.
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Book Review: Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind— ...
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Conversation in a Dead Language: Reprint of an Interview with Lee Siegel— American novelist Lee Siegel talks about his obsession with India, magic and sex
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Book Review: Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie— ...
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Book Review: Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas— The biography of a man living larger than life in the world's most sadistic, masochistic, brutal creative enclave.
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More Than a Grudge and a Ring: Why Asian Horror Films Rock— ...
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Book Review: India In Mind, edited by Pankaj Mishra— The Editor Has His Day: Do literary anthologies exist to publish good writing that would otherwise go unseen?
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The Big O: Damien Rice Cuts Closer (To the Bone)— ...
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Strangers with Scalpels: The Scary Whitewashed World of Medical Thrillers— ...
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Book Review: Number9dream by David Mitchell— ...
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"For 500 years, others spoke for us": Reprint of An Interview with Native American author Craig Womack— ...
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Book Review: About the Author by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner— About the Author--and his mistress too: Skeletons in the writer's closet
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Book Review: The Red Letters by Ved Mehta— The author is torn between loyalty to family and loyalty to craft, to which any kind of censorship is anathema.
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Dialogues With The Dead: Robertson Davies's Great Canadian Novels— The late Canadian author Robertson Davies, author of hugely entertaining campus sagas, was a true gift to modern literature.
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Review: Earthsea Miniseries on DVD— ...
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Book Review: Vodka by Boris Starling— ...
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Book Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke— ...
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Book Review: Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor— ...
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Book Review: Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami— ...
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Gurus of Contemporary Crime Fiction: Michael Connelly— First instalment in a series on contemporary crime writers focuses on Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series and other thrillers.
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Review: LOST Season 1— ...
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Book Review: The Accidental by Ali Smith— Wordplay in a Time of War: Examines British consciousness in the wake of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Book Review: Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney— Pangs of New York: Caleb Carr or Herbert Asbury the author is not...
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The Amazing Worlds of Harry Turtledove: Alternate History Part III— Multiple worlds, many wars: "Master" Harry Turtledove's treasure trove of Alternate History war sagas.
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Sex and The Literary (Indian) Woman— ...
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S.M. Stirling's Nantucket Trilogy: Alternate History Part II— History was never such fun! The Nantucket Trilogy and other must-read Alternate History thrillers.
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If India & Pakistan Had Joined Forces Against The British Empire: Alternate History, Part I— ...
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