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News: July 2013
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Literary news from around the world. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Tuesday, July 02, 2013. I saw this story. Showrooming happens when people browse a brick-and-mortar bookshop, compare prices and then buy it online at Amazon. A story in City AM. It certainly is not fair. Is the government going to do anything about it? Today, everyone has had enough of Amazon which, th...
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Op-Ed: April 2014
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Thursday, April 17, 2014. Karpal Singh: Champion of the invisibles (1940-2014). I was on my usual. When where did you hear this . did you read this? I stammered avoiding the most important question, "Which Karpal? I asked. We debated for a while and finally agree. These two were indeed...Yang ...
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Op-Ed: September 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Sunday, September 22, 2013. Who are these Xlibris people? How did they get my number? How do they even know me? The question is easy to answer in these days of Google. The first one stumped me. "Not from us, I said unnecessarily.". We do e-books, too.". Or are they merely playing the volume ga...
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Op-Ed: November 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Saturday, November 30, 2013. Did Gulliver visit Malaysia? Three hundred years ago in a time warp. Well, read on. Off-beat cha cha king. I almost fell of my chair laughing out loud at that. I couldn't get a vision of Ibrahim Ali balancing in high heels out of my head! And, there were deep relig...
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News: February 2014
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Literary news from around the world. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Friday, February 28, 2014. Volunteers to read to children. I received this Facebook message from Shantini Venugopal just before I sent out the March newsletter:. LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS WHO LOVE TO READ TO CHILDREN. Phase II - Volunteer Reading Programmes. We would love to hear from you! We are a bunch o...
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Op-Ed: March 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Monday, March 04, 2013. White people imitating black people imitating white people. (Is this what's called post-colonial in academese? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Join Silverfish on Facebook. New Blog - Silverfish Writing Tips. Available for Kindle, Nook and iBook stores).
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Op-Ed: May 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Thursday, May 02, 2013. Why I don't own a mobile phone. What do you think? No, I don't play golf, either. What if each call takes 15 minutes? 20, 25, 30 minutes? I know of people who can talk for up to an hour each time! You have a calculator? Figure it out. I think my time and my life is ...
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Op-Ed: December 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Malaysia's new historical narratives. In a battle between myth and history, the latter will always lose. Much of it is only perception, and patently untrue. But so what, if people think you are lying? I said, "Yes," but I didn't add, "but that's not why it's good...
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Op-Ed: June 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Saturday, June 01, 2013. Magazine calls them the Me Me Me Generation. I came across two more interesting stories. In the follow-up of the experiment, researchers checking in on these same students in high school, found that those with more self-control were better behaved, less prone to addict...
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News: April 2014
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Literary news from around the world. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Tuesday, April 01, 2014. The greatest bookworms of them all. I can hear it already: some of you are saying, "Is that all? While some are going, "Oh my God.". Argentineans love the radio (20.8 hours), followed by Brazilians (17.2 hours) and South Africans (15.0 hours). The Chinese spend t...When it comes...
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