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Bookmark: Love without a story

This is a collection of poetry fermented and aged with love. A love that’s long past the sappy, blinkered vision … More

Arundhati Subramaniam, book review, book reviews, books, feminism, Indian books, Indian poets, loss, love, Love without a story, monsoon, parents, poems, poetry, poetry collection, womanhood

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

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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

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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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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It all began…..

I think it all began with my grandmother telling me stories – fantasy stories, some with morals, some without at … More

books, grandmom, reading

Once upon a time….

Once upon a time there was a little kid and all that kid wanted was a story to read. He … More

books, children, children's books, Dolch Project, Dolch words, Edward Dolch, learning disability, stories, The Cat in the Hat

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