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“The history of racism varies with the decades… like fashion”
Pavan K Varma
As part of a monthly conversation series organised by Open at Smoke House Deli, William Dalrymple spoke to Pavan K Varma about writing for a foreign audience, romanticising the Raj, and much else . Excerpts:
Small Things for Empathy
How literary fiction makes one more empathetic and better at reading people
No Questions Please
Unsuccessful attempts at the Berlin International Book Festival to understand how the reclusive JM Coetzee’s mind works
Making Celluloid from Cellulose
The difficult and often distortive experiment of making movies of books
Flaunting the Write Look
In a world inundated with books, a female writer’s sexiness serves as a handy marketing tool. But, Annie Zaidi warns, this can prove counter-productive to a writer who wants to be taken seriously
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Readers
It seems no one wants to curl up with an Agatha Christie or dig into a Harper Lee anymore. People now read self-help books
Come One, Come All
Indian publishers are in overdrive, churning out books that offer marginal profits. But in the process, have they become glorified printers?
What’s Funny About It?
Going by Google’s idea of what constitutes humour, global dominance will elude it for a while yet.
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