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Book review: Things To Leave Behind by Namita Gokhale

This is more a brief take than review. Things to leave behind by Namita Gokhale. Penguin Viking This is the third and final volume of Gokhale`s Himalayan trilogy, A Himalayan Love Story and Book of Shadows being the first two. However, I write of this as a standalone story, which it is. After I turned…

Book review: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Tales from the North A master storyteller dons his storied cape again. I must confess that this would be my third reading of the Norse tales, stories that hold me in complete thrall each book, each reading. So my first reaction here was: Neil Gaiman doing a re-telling? Will it serve? However, Gaiman…

Feature: The north-south divide

It has taken a good many years spent criss-crossing the north and south of India, for me to come to this conclusion: Kipling got his latitudes mixed up with his longitudes. When he famously remarked that East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, he ought to have laid that sentence…

Book excerpts: A Feast of Vultures by Josy Joseph

A sobering, significant parsing of our system, political, economic, social.

Photo Feature: A photo essay on friendship

A short note on the making of this post. April 1, 2017 Blog: whyaretheystillmyfriends Sheila Kumar writes about the making of a photo essay about friends Before you start Googling for a Bergman or Fellini film that bears the title of Falling, let me hasten to clarify: Falling is the name of a photo essay…

Book review: Moonglow by Michael Chabon

Memory chaser Price 12.99 Pounds Sterling. Michael Chabon’s Moonglow is a feel-good story with darkness at its heart. Chabon, a novelist who has frequently moved between themes and genres, presents this as a family memoir. Then again, given the many literary flourishes contained within, the reader could be forgiven for thinking this…

Book review: The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam

The master story-teller is back, weaving the usual magic with his words, writing a familiar yet brand-new tale of love in the times of bigotry and xenophobia.“ I wake up every day approaching life’s problems through fiction,“ says Nadeem Aslam. Which explains the prose that soars even as it touches upon, examines, parses all the conflict life…

Feature: The new face of humour

As the times rapidly change, the rich seam of humour we tap into is also rapidly changing. It`s black humour, but of course. The other good-natured, gentle ribbing really would not stand up to what we are seeing and experiencing in life these days. It`s black humour and it is everywhere; it has…

Feature: Artisanal coffee is a thing!

Artisanal Coffee Is A Thing So. Have you heard the one about the woman who walks into a coffee bar, eyes the toothsome barista and says, `Make me happy, Joe.` The barista looks at her with a smile, then says, give me a mo. The woman seats herself at a table nearby….

Book review: Nutshell by Ian McEwan

This is more a brief take than review. So, this is about pretty Trudy who is cuckolding her failed poet husband John with his brother Claude, a property developer. John is getting rather inconvenient, even intractable, and so they decide to do away with him. Yes, poison. What they don`t know is they have a witness-…