New Delhi: Love and grief, motherhood, redemption and her hometown Nainital... Writer and novelist Namita Gokhale runs her readers through a roller-coaster of emotions in her first ever collection of short stories, 'The Habit of Love', peeling the skin off feminine dramas across centuries in a contemporary voice. "The stories speak of a woman's need to love, rather than the objects of love. Women love passionately, deeply, often angrily. Real...
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More than two and a half decades after her first acclaimed novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, Namita Gokhale has resurrected some of its characters in her recently released Priya In Incredible Indyaa. A ruthless caricature of how high society in the national capital works, the novel takes off from where Paro left. Priya, whose parents married her to a lawyer Suresh Kaushal of sober habits, has grown middle-aged, and her...12:07 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Namita Gokhale's pretty much holding up a mirror to Delhi's high-flying elite with her latest book, Priya in Incredible Indyaa. I read this through in one siting, a lazy Saturday afternoon, but must admit right at the outset to not having read Paro (the prequel, if you're going backwards). Paro is a character that pops up every so often in this book though " she seems to have been the...01:23 PM, May 30, 2011
John Maxwell Coetzee or simply, J M Coetzee, doesn't attend public gatherings. Even if it means skipping the ceremony that awarded him the Booker Prize in 1984. So when he did show up, quite naturally, he became the star attraction and probably one of the biggest draws at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival on Day 3. "Please bear with me for 45 minutes of what will be a hopefully, uninterrupted...12:58 PM, Jan 24, 2011
CNN-IBN quizzed festival co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Darlymple. ...12:14 PM, Jan 22, 2010
Mumbai: Mumbai Indians would look to excel in home conditions and confirm a play-offs berth by getting the better of bottom-placed Deccan Chargers in an Indian Premier League clash at the Wankhede stadium Saturday. After the humiliating 76-run defeat to Kings XI Punjab at Mohali, Sachin Tendulkar-led MI would be eager to get their act together and return to winning ways. It was a reminder of how fickle the T20...06:57 PM, Jan 24, 2008
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