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Nilanjana S Roy: Absent libraries, photocopied minds

What the case of the photocopying shop versus the academic presses demonstrates is the failure of the Indian library system and a parallel lack of intellectual growth

Nilanjana S Roy: The freedom to read

Nilanjana S Roy: A variety of absences

The boom in literary festivals reached its peak this year, and it is now possible for a writer or a publisher to spend an entire season shuffling between book launches and festivals without ever having to go home

Nilanjana S Roy: Mo Yan - 'Carve out my own heart'

SPEAKING VOLUMES

Nilanjana S Roy: An early Oriental tourist

Picks of November

Non-fiction dominates our selection for next month

Nilanjana S Roy: The unprivate lives of authors

Nilanjana S Roy: A perforated history

Nilanjana S Roy: Bring up the bodies

In many ways, today¿s brand of censorship is an assault on language itself as much as it is on free speech

Journal of the plague years

Picks of October

Ten promising titles of next month, among them the reissue of a not-very-flattering life of Indira Gandhi

Nilanjana S Roy: Migrants, goats and slaves

Nilanjana S Roy: The empty shelves

Nilanjana S Roy: The Bhagat brandwagon

Picks of September

Nilanjana S Roy: The writing circus

Nilanjana S Roy: Fifty Shades of Gah

Nilanjana S Roy: Readability, or lasting value?

Nilanjana S Roy: Ray Bradbury's alternate realities

Nilanjana S Roy: The happiest Bloomsday ever