1. Another Book On Obama
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.... Canongate Books will release the book on 11 December. The firm already publishes Obama's memoir – Dreams From My Father, and his political manifesto, The Audacity of Hope. The new book ou...

2. BOOK REVIEW: Breathing In Colour
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...ce to place and clue to clue in search of Mia. But on this quest, she also journeys inwards via her lucid dreams and her memories of the past.   We discover that Mia is no ordinary person, sh...

3. The Merchant Of Magic
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...test book The Winner Stands Alone (HarperCollins 2009) which deals with the “price (to be paid) for dreams and illusions”, the role Catholicism has played in his life as well as the writer...

4. Meena Kapoor, Astroyogi.com
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...onald Trump that are like a good wake up call.   I recently read Barrack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father that I also found inspiring, given his diverse background and where Obam...

5. Between The Covers Of A Book
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... 33], for instance, is this sparkling quote, ‘The soul is silent/ If it speaks at all/ it speaks in dreams'. [From Louise Gluck's Child Crying Out]. It’s easy to see why Funke identifies w...

6. Colours Of Imagination
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...upta; HarperCollins India; Pages: 356; Price: Rs 395 Buy Borrow Avoid The Freudian concept of dreams as instruments of wish fulfilment is the baseline of Solo. Here, Rana Dasgupta harnesse...

7. Obama's Book Triumphs At British Book Awards
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US President Barack Obama has scooped the Galaxy British Book Award for his autobiography Dreams From My Father. The American leader, who was unable to collect his trophy — owing to G20 tal

8. ‘A Novel Need Not Transcribe Reality’
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...l minded people. So, I hope it would be easily read You divide your book into two parts, Life and Daydreams. Why did you think of such a classification? If you look at a human life as an infini...

9. Queries Of An Inquisitive Diplomat
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...rected by Danny Boyle — which released recently in the US. Swarup confesses that not in his wildest dreams did he think his novel would be made into a movie. Currently posted in Pretoria (South ...

10. True To Life
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...ian languages into English. C.K. Meena has authored Black Lentil Doughnuts and has recently released Dreams For The Dying published by Dronequill   ...

11. Life Goes On...
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...athing and alive. It's because their relatives haven't let them pass away...they are now fulfilling their dreams. Be it painting the house or buying a cycle for their young son. Besides tracking...

12. Life Goes On...
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...athing and alive. It's because their relatives haven't let them pass away...they are now fulfilling their dreams. Be it painting the house or buying a cycle for their young son. Besides tracking...

13. Storyteller And His Notes
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...dia. I'm one of those who chose to stay back in India even as my peers left. I stayed back because I have dreams and beliefs of India — but these are not blinkered dreams and beliefs. My India i...

14. Indian Double At Booker: Two On Shortlist
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... in the heartland of India to the son of a rickshaw-puller, Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’, dreams of escaping his life as a teashop worker-turned-chauffeur. Yet when his chance finally ...

15. The Hippie Hippie Shake
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...rough, living as they do in a drug induced state. In fact, at times, it is difficult to differentiate the dreams from the real incidents. But once you get used to this disjointed narrative style,...