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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux | Book review
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 6 days ago
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In the summer of 1990 I found myself marooned in a Malaysian bungalow while recovering from a bout of dengue fever, a convalescence that gave me the chance to read a short story by Paul Theroux in which a man suffers a debilitating bout of dengue fever...
Tags: Paul Theroux, Mrs Unger, Jerry Delfont, Calcutta, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Paul Holmes, Film maker & Lecturer, Screen Academy Scotland
Mumbai :: India | 11 days ago
Credibility Nov 2009, 0122 hrs IST, Ashoke Nag , ET Bureau Text: Paul Holmes is a film maker and lecturer in directing at the Screen Academy Scotland (SAS). Before joining as a faculty member at SAS, Holmes was a freelance film maker who made short films and television...
Tags: Screen Academy Scotland, film makers, SRFTI, Edinburgh International Film Festival, India, Calcutta, Mumbai, Education, Paul Holmes, Scottish media, Satyajit Ray, Edinburgh Napier University, Entertainment Culture, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art
Lotteries face court wrath
Calcutta :: OH :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The Supreme Court today asked Bengal to restrict draws of a lottery to once a week as mandated under a central act, perhaps unaware that in Calcutta you can test your luck online every five seconds and still be within the law.
Tags: online lotteries, Bibhash Karmakar, The Supreme Court, Calcutta High Court, New Delhi/Calcutta, Playwin, lotteries operating, Calcutta, Lotteries in the United States, Lottery, Lotteries, Online lottery
A Dead Hand, By Paul Theroux
Calcutta :: OH :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility A dead hand might suggest a police procedural or a gory thriller for a novel subtitled "A Crime in Calcutta", but Paul Theroux prefers a metaphorical slant. The hand in question is indeed a severed, pickled piece of evidence in what might more accurately...
Tags: Mrs Unger, dead hand, Paul Theroux, Jerry Delfont, Calcutta, Theroux
How Mumbai gets its famous spirit
Mumbai :: India | 18 days ago
Credibility His proximity to the Union railway minister also makes O'Brien chairman of the passenger services committee...Anyway, O'Brien the Calcutta boy attempted the near impossible task of trying to travel in Mumbai's local trains...When he finally finished with...
Tags: How Mumbai, Derek O'Brien, Calcutta, India, Mumbai, Virar, Borivali, Railway stations in Mumbai, Andheri
A kaleidoscope of colour in Kolkata
London :: United Kingdom | 20 days ago
Credibility Eight o'clock on a Tuesday morning and already a dozen or so of Kolkata's legal clerks were hard at work. At their makeshift offices of tarpaulin and bamboo that fringe the exterior of the imposing 19th-century High Court, they were clattering away on...
Tags: Park Kolkata, Kolkata Getting, Indian Coffee House, East India Company, British India, Air India, Bengali, Heathrow via Delhi, Park Street, Calcutta, United Kingdom, London, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Sundarbans, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Places of interest in Kolkata, Hawkers in Kolkata, Kolkata, Mother Teresa Sarani, Maidan, Hospitality Recreation
Ryuji a hit after first day first show
Singapore :: Singapore | 22 days ago
Credibility If the first impression is the best then Japanese Ryuji Sueoka will be donning the green and maroon colours very soon. On trial, Ryuji impressed during a practice match against Peerless at the club ground on Wednesday. Bagan won 2-0 and both goals were...
Tags: Ryuji Sueoka, Bagan, Karim Bencharifa, Calcutta, Singapore, Ryￅﾫji, Jose Ramirez Barreto, Ring, Football in India, Calcutta Football League, Sabooj Maroon Swapna, allnews
Blast suspects in Calcutta terror net
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 23 days ago
Credibility Three Bangladeshis with alleged links to a terror module whose name had cropped up after blasts in India were arrested in Calcutta today on their way to north Bengal. City police caught the trio while they were waiting in Babughat to catch a bus to Malda...
Tags: Calcutta, Shahid Belal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Dhāka, Murshidabad, Terrorism in India, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Terrorism in Pakistan
Fine to be a little tense before a game
Calcutta :: OH :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility Please advise. (Samir Mukherjee, 15, Calcutta-40) It demands a good wrist position and solid action at the time of delivery...How does one relax? (Swapan Saha, 17, Calcutta) Think of all your strengths and be positive...How does one get used to the...
Tags: Calcutta, handed batsman, little tense, Off break, Off spin, Leg spin, Cricket pitch, allnews, Bowling, Backlift, Batting
A Dead Hand, By Paul Theroux
Mumbai :: India | 26 days ago
Credibility In A Dead Hand, the veteran US travel writer Paul Theroux has created a literary crime novel of sorts set in Calcutta, told through the eyes of a veteran American travel writer, Jerry Delfont. Delfont is suffering writer's block (the novel's title is...
Tags: Paul Theroux, dead hand, Jerry Delfont, Calcutta, Mrs Unger, American, travel writer, India, Mumbai, Theroux, Travel literature
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