11/19/2011
by Ujjwal Acharya
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“Why are you wasting your time?” A colleague asked me when he saw me reading Revolution 2020 – the latest novel by Chetan Bhagat. He probably said that because of my age (I am not as young as many of … Continue reading
4/24/2011
by Ujjwal Acharya
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While reading books is a diminishing habit – largely because of development of computer technologies, the best thing you can gift anyone are still books Little more than a decade ago, my father requested my school principal to come to … Continue reading
12/14/2010
by Ujjwal Acharya
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I didn’t knew noted anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista had published a fiction in 1870s – even when Sotala, his novel, was released by Himal Books a couple of days ago, I thought it was an old manuscript published. But it … Continue reading
7/14/2010
by Ujjwal Acharya
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[Review of Samrat Upadhyay's Buddha's Orphans] Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel – Buddha’s Orphans – is atypical to his earlier books. This isn’t because his novel is as good as his earlier three books but rather because it’s a book that, … Continue reading
5/25/2010
by Ujjwal Acharya
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After finishing Manjushree Thapa’s new novel – Seasons of Flight – within eight hours of getting a copy of it, I could, at least, say that the book is a page-turner. It has everything to be an interesting read: a … Continue reading