<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Reflections of a Silverfish</title>
	<atom:link href="http://swameth.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>Discussions on Books - Bestsellers, Authors, Indian Writing in English</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:53:47 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='swameth.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Reflections of a Silverfish</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://swameth.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="Reflections of a Silverfish" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://swameth.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>Tiger Hills &#8211; Sarita Mandanna</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/tiger-hills-sarita-mandanna/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/tiger-hills-sarita-mandanna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Author]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kavery Nambisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plagiarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarita Mandanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scent of Pepper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Hills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tehelka says Sarita&#8217;s much hyped novel seems a little too heavily influenced by Kavery Nambisan&#8217;s Scent of Pepper (http://www.tehelka.com/story_main46.asp?filename=hub280810hunting.asp). I am glad I didn&#8217;t have to read a lift. I might as well read Nambisan&#8217;s book.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=170&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/tiger-hills-sarita-mandanna/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Disobedient Girl &#8211; Ru Freeman</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/a-disobedient-girl-ru-freeman/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/a-disobedient-girl-ru-freeman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Disobedient Girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bestsellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ru Freeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Novels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to MA, for lending me the book after my futile efforts to find it in a few leading bookshops.  I am usually circumspect about novels that are launched amid hype. However, I am glad that this one proved me wrong. Another good piece of work set in the Tear Drop Isle following on my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=158&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/a-disobedient-girl-ru-freeman/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://swameth.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/freeman1.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">freeman1</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mosquito &#8211; Roma Tearne</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/mosquito-roma-tearne/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/mosquito-roma-tearne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mosquito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roma Tearne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Novels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What can I say about what was an absolute delight to read. Call it my ignorance but I had never heard of Roma Tearne before this and from what I hear Mosquito was her first novel, she has published two novels since and is launching her fourth soon.  If this anything to go by, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=154&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/mosquito-roma-tearne/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Lessons in Forgetting &#8211; Anita Nair</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/lessons-in-forgetting-anita-nair/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/lessons-in-forgetting-anita-nair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 12:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anita Nair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lessons in Forgetting Review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I am not going to gain too many friends with this review. I am a self-confessed fan of Anita Nair, but this book is definitely not one I would rate very high. I read a recent interview of Anita Nair about how Indian media is obsessed with obtuse authors. &#8216;It almost seems that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=148&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/lessons-in-forgetting-anita-nair/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Arrack in the Afternoon &#8211; Mathew Vincent Menacherry</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/arrack-in-the-afternoon-mathew-vincent-menacherry/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/arrack-in-the-afternoon-mathew-vincent-menacherry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrack in the Afternoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malayali Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malayalis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mathew Vincent Menacherry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, who but a mallu would call a novel, Arrack in the Afternoon? Our fondness for Bacchanalian pleasures tends to come to the fore almost everywhere. On to the book, the lone review that I read was insipid (the review, not the book) and all it really talked about was the sexual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=144&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/arrack-in-the-afternoon-mathew-vincent-menacherry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/vodafone-crossword-book-awards/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/vodafone-crossword-book-awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Escape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vodafone Crossword Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manjula Padmanbhan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the press release The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded &#8212; and finding place are &#8216;The Enchantress of Florence&#8217; by Salman Rushdie, &#8216;Sea of Poppies&#8217; by Amitav Ghosh, &#8216;Unaccustomed Earth&#8217; by Jhumpa Lahiri, &#8216;Past Continuous&#8217; by Neel Mukherjee and &#8216;Escape&#8217; by Manjula Padmanabhan. This was announced by a panel comprising publisher-writer Urvashi Butalia, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=142&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/vodafone-crossword-book-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The River Has No Camera &#8211; Anjali Chandran</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/the-river-has-no-camera-anjali-chandran/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/the-river-has-no-camera-anjali-chandran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The River Has No Camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anjali Chandran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If one went by the title or the packaging, one could have easily missed this book. If you took a little trouble and pulled it off the shelf and read the blurb, you may take a chance. That&#8217;s what I did.  Anjali Chandran launched this book in 2001 and I dont remember reading about it, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=140&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/the-river-has-no-camera-anjali-chandran/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Burnt Shadows &#8211; Kamila Shamsie</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/burnt-shadows-kamila-shamsie/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/burnt-shadows-kamila-shamsie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Highly recommended]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burnt Shadows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamila Shamsie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistani Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistani Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistani Novel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice, very nice. Kamila Shamsie is definitely an author to watch out for. Burnt Shadows has been receiving good reviews since its launch early this year and it has done pretty well in India too.  We have some great literature coming out from our neighbourhood which is very encouraging. In terms of scope Kamila has used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=136&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/burnt-shadows-kamila-shamsie/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Escape &#8211; Manjula Padmanabhan</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/escape-manjula-padmanabhan/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/escape-manjula-padmanabhan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disappointing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Escape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manjula Padmanabhan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two budding flowers and few drops of blood, the cover says it all. It took me a while to make the connection. Deep, I must add. Actually the only new IWE book the Bangalore Airport had was this one. Only later did I hear that most critics had trashed this one and not without some reason. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=129&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/escape-manjula-padmanabhan/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://swameth.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/escape-manjula-padmanabhan.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">escape-manjula-padmanabhan</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Afterwards &#8211; Jaishree Misra</title>
		<link>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/afterwards-jaishree-misra/</link>
		<comments>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/afterwards-jaishree-misra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davematt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian writing in English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rohinton Mistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malayalis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaishree Misra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anita Nair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swameth.wordpress.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disappointing, was my thought as I turned the last page. Another Indian author that I had not tried for a long time despite several people urging me. The fact that she is related to Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai as stated by Wikipedia  was certainly one reason to try this one out. May be this is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swameth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3763163&amp;post=127&amp;subd=swameth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swameth.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/afterwards-jaishree-misra/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/529d7ca90c1b3c02a8427696725b7aca?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">davematt</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
