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Mindgames ed. 5

Avinash Subramaniam

‘Ha Ha Ha’ is a clue. Can you name the writer I am alluding to? He was at this year’s Jaipur Literary Festival.

In which their worst fears were realised

Day5@Jaipur: ‘Short stories are not an apprentice form’

Day4@Jaipur

Day4@Jaipur: Freewheeling Louis de Bernières on the nationality of his stories, Ataturk, religion, the problem with Latin America...

Demystifying Al Qaeda

Day3@Jaipur: I’d heard Al Qaeda isn’t the infallible terror machine it is made out to be. Now I kinda believe it.

Day3@Jaipur

Day3@Jaipur: In conversation with Alexander McCall Smith; why Al Qaeda is a spent force; and the art of moderation

Newly Minted Cricket Millionaires

Yet again, the IPL auction has suddenly made some cricket players very rich. Will they keep their heads?

An Activist and a Poet

Day2@Jaipur: Tenzin Tsundue knows how to work a crowd. People who don’t know him get to know him quickly, and meetings with skeptics leave them slightly changed.

The Other Side of the Story

Day2@Jaipur: when conspiracy theorists came calling

Loser

...jumps out of bed, opens the door, but, no, it’s not her. There’s a newspaper where his wife should be.

A queen is delayed, a man is run over, a festival begins

The Jaipur Literature Festival is on—with more people and fewer authors than the organisers expected.

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