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Updike’s last
take
Harsh Desai
My Father’s Tears And Other
Stories
By John Updike.
Hamish Hamilton.
Pages 292. Rs 499.
THIS
posthumously published book of short stories catches John Updike in a
quiet contemplative mood looking over his shoulders to a life lived
and sometimes the looking back is to many years ago — all the way
back to childhood and to school days.
Treasure
trove of facts
Nonika Singh
Mrinal Sen: Sixty Years in
Search of Cinema
By Dipankar Mukhopadhyay.
HarperCollins.
Pages 316. Rs 399.
IN
a way, the title Mrinal Sen: Sixty Years in Search of Cinema is
telling. Expectedly, Dipankar Mukhopadhyay chronicles the socially
significant and thought-provoking cinema of one of the greatest
film-makers of all time—Mrinal Sen.
Countdown
to the day of death
Aradhika Sharma
A Taste of Life: The Last
Days of U. G. Krishnamurti
By Mahesh Bhatt.
Penguin.
Pages 161. Rs 225.
"SINCE
U. G. rejected divinity and didn’t want to be remembered after his
death, I see no point in talking about him when he’s no more. It
sort of defeats what he believed in," Bhatt told a news
agency after the death of his spiritual guru and friend.
Sharp
and sardonic
Soumya Bhattacharya
Between the Assassinations
By Aravind Adiga.
Atlantic.
Pages 351. £ 13.49.
Something
important has happened in India since Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The
White Tiger — a razor-sharp, darkly comic account of what
happens when members of India’s shockingly poor classes collude and
collide with those of its aggressively consumerist, astonishingly
wealthy ones — became the surprise winner of the Man Booker Prize in
2008.
World
of aviation
Vijay Mohan
A to X of Aviation
By Wg Cdr D. P. Sabharwal (retd).
Aero-Academy, Chandigarh.
Pages 102. Rs 250.
IN
less than a century, the achievements made in the field of aviation
have been mind-boggling. From a mere "hop-in-the-air" in a
rickety wood and fabric craft, the man has touched the limits of the
solar system and travelled at speeds several times that of sound.
Bajaj’s
debut novel to hit Hollywood
Azera Rahman
Twenty-nine-year-old
IIM-graduate Karan Bajaj’s debut novel Keep Off The Grass has
done incredibly well, selling 25,000 copies. Taking the story one step
further, the book is now being made into a film, which, the author
promises, will be a desi version of the hugely successful movie
The Motorcycle Diaries.
Restricted
mobility is no barrier for fans
John Horn
IF
you look closely at some of the most popular comic book and
collectible characters featured at Comic-Con International in San
Diego, you notice some unexpected similarities. "X-Men’s"
Professor Charles Xavier uses a wheelchair. "Daredevil’s"
MattMurdock is blind. "Iron Man’s" Tony Stark doesn’t
have a healthy heart.
SHORT TAKES
Life of a
politician
Randeep Wadehra
From Dusk To Dawn; My Life
By Dr. Kewal Krishan.
Pages 300. Rs 299.
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