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Sashi Kumar

Chennai
As seen in: The Times of India, Firstpost, Frontline India, The Hindu, Audible Blog, Financial Express, International Business Times (India), The News Minute, Mathrubhumi, The Week (India) and
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Who Frames the Indian Press?

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By Pamela Philipose Verified, Sashi Kumar, Parakala Prabhakar, Vaishna Roy Verified
| Frontline India Verified
The title perhaps merits some musing. At a time when the media are being “deframed”, or rendered frameless by augmented reality and virtual reality (AR & VR, as they are generally called in tandem), the idea of framing it might sound incongruous. But then the book bearing the title is not about the technological inflection point that the media is at today, where media-tech is way ahead and media content is playing catch-up. Nor is it about media in the catch-all sense of the term.
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Paul Zacharia creates yet another upended world in his English novel

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By Sashi Kumar
| The Week (India) Verified
True Story of a Writer, a Philosopher and a Shape-Shifter: A Novel begins at a piquant inflection point. Lord Spider, fiction writer par excellence, has just propositioned his wife Rosi. Could he make love to her that night? As a philosopher given to parsing everything, she wants to know why. He discloses that he has to write an essay on compassion for the Party, but has difficulty transitioning from fiction to non-fiction, and was hoping lovemaking might help.
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M.T. Vasudevan Nair: The Chronicler of Kerala’s Inner Conflicts Original

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By Sashi Kumar, Vaishna Roy Verified
| Frontline India Verified
He was officially M.T. Vasudevan Nair, but peers close to him and friends of the same or older generation called him Vasu; others generally used his initials “MT”. He chose the last for me when, in the 1980s, I wrote to him from Delhi to ask how I should address him. “MT”, he replied, would be fine. You did not so much write to, or meet with, MT as commune with him, if he let you. You did not even need to meet to keep the connect continuous and going. As far back as I can remember, this has been so.
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