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Toilets over talent
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[Hindustan Times] - Aditya tasted early success by successfully forcing vice-chancellor Rajan Welukar to pull Rohinton Mistry's book Such a Long Journey off the syllabus mid-term even while the semester papers were being set in So much flak did the VC receive at the
Tragic—Or Merely Sad?
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[Wall Street Journal (blog)] - I would also argue that Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance" has no business on any list of tragic novels: It may tell of harrowing poverty and adversity, but it's also a story of human fortitude and hope. Which reminds me that Shalom Auslander's most
Echoes of Istanbul in India
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[India Today] - I took heart from this, thinking of recent incidents at home - the debacle of Salman Rushdie's non-attendance at Jaipur, or Mumbai University dropping Rohinton Mistry from its English syllabus at the order of Bal Thackeray's grandson.
Scenes from Early Life, By Philip Hensher
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[The Independent] - The texture of this kind of extended family life will be familiar to fans of Vikram Seth and Rohinton Mistry, and at first it seems as if Scenes From Early Life will be no more than another charming tale of how mildly eccentric post-colonial characters
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