“And so it goes with God.”
Except for the fact that Irrfan, when he speaks these words, looks profoundly enigmatic and proud, like a man who [...]
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01, 2014
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07, 2013
The Writer
I don't know her. Except her name, that is. And that she is on the other side of the globe, [...]
11
01, 2013
“Joseph Anton: A Memoir” by Salman Rushdie
The relationship between a book and its author is the same as that of a baby and its mother. A [...]
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12, 2012
Persepolis
Just finished reading Persepolis: The story of a childhood and Persepolis 2: The story of a return by Marjane Satrapi.I don't have [...]
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08, 2012
Midnight’s Children
At the very outset, I have not read The Satanic Verses. I plan to, but given the fact that the [...]
4
05, 2012
“Nude and Other Stories”
Read the story about this book, here.
1
04, 2011
Those days, those books…
There was a time I spent my spare time reading. There was a time I planned, made a list and [...]
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10, 2010
Freedom at Midnight
Yellowed pages ready to tear at the slightest provocation.A carefully scribbled signature of a person who had just started owning [...]
25
09, 2010
To Kill a MockingBird
Sharing my most favourite passage from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird. If you haven't read it (or seen [...]
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04, 2010
Love in the time of Cholera
That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the [...]