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Why ask?

June 3, 2011

The story so far: Nobel Laureate author Sir V. S. Naipaul, was interviewed at the Royal Geographical Society recently. Someone asked him if he considered any woman writer to be his equal. Mr. Naipaul said, “I don’t think so.” He also said, during the same interview, after dismissing women writers because of their “sentimentality” and [...]

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About an unhappy author and the movie based on his book

January 1, 2010

I read ‘Five Point Someone’ by Chetan Bhagat in early December and saw ’3 Idiots’ yesterday. So, it’s fair to say that the book is still fresh in my mind. Now, I hear that Chetan Bhagat is upset about not getting enough credit for the story of the movie. Read what he has to say [...]

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