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Bookmark: On Beauty & The Goat Thief

The Goat thief by Perumal Murugan: This collection of short stories from the Tamilian writer takes you into the villages, … More

America, book review, book reviews, books, India, life, On Beauty, Perumal Murugan, short reviews, The Goat Thief, Zadie Smith

The Adivasi will not dance

For all its diversity, India bundles up many issues under the hood. In Gujarat, an officer’s family has to contend … More

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Bombay, meri jaan

It’s the city of opportunities; the financial capital; the land of migrants. The phrases fall woefully short of describing the … More

Adil Jussawala, anthology, Arundhati Subramaniam, Bombay, Bombay meri jaan, book review, book reviews, books, Jerry Pinto, mumbai, Mumbai anthology, Naipaul, Naresh Fernandes, Paromita Vohra, Pico Iyer, Suketu Mehta

Nine Lives and a Summer Requiem

Nine Lives by William Dalrymple In a land where gods and goddesses abound as do their stories, Dalrymple’s search for … More

book, book reviews, books, India, Indian gods, love, Nine Lives, poems, read now, reading, Summer Requiem, Vikram Seth, William Dalrymple

Books and Berries

The sprawling villas on both sides don’t point to a village. I’m about to double-back when the signboard declares that I’m … More

Bhilar, books village, Dhoom lake, food, Hay-on-Wye, literature, Mahabaleshwar, Mapro Garden, Muriel Sparks, Panchgani, Pustakanche gaav, rustic, strawberries, travel, village life, weekend breaks, weekend trip

Small joys

It’s always about the simpler things in life with the boy from the hills. Of brushing off one’s shoes, encounters … More

book, book review, books, Boy from the hills, children's book, Looking for the Rainbow, reading, Ruskin Bond, Rusty

Becoming a child at Kahani Tree

“Aaaaaaaaccchhhooooooooooooooooooooooooo” Blork! Bluurf! I seem to have caught Gajapati Kulapati’s cold. Just wait till I catch hold of that elephant … More

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A bibliophile’s guide to the city’s bookstores

The last time I visited a bookstore (which was just last week), I sat down to read Neil Gaiman’s The View … More

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Treasure trove

This time I was in the desert, watching the story of Dodola and Zam unfold from a distance. From the … More

Asterix, Batman, bookstores, cafe, Calvin and Hobbes, city stories, comics, Craig Thompson, graphic novels, Leaping Windows, library, Manga, Marvel Comics, mumbai, Neil Gaiman, Sandman series, superheroes, Tintin, Versova, Wolverine

Not on the same road

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars Nothing behind me, everything ahead … More

America, beat people, book review, books, Dean Moriarty, Jack Kerouac, life, On the Road, road trip, Sal Paradise, travel, travel books

The Illustrated Man

  A man, inked all over, running from one place to the other to escape the horror of the stories … More

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Not perfect but carry on Jeeves

As I’m writing this, I can barely keep my eyes open. I’m as pleased as punch of course, if I have … More

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