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Protected: Reading for a Grim Spring
Tag: Books and culture
Impressions and Sketches of Another Age
While dusting and spring-cleaning my father’s bookshelves at home in Goa, I happened to discover a book I had never seen before in his collection. When I opened it, I was even more surprised to see his inscription: Daryaganj pavement, Delhi, 1999. He did visit me in Delhi around then and we might have wandered… Continue reading Impressions and Sketches of Another Age
Protected: Monsoon Reading During the Pandemic
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Protected: Stepping Into 2021, in Books and Music
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Protected: Reading to Begin the New Year With
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Protected: Reading To Bring Us Full Circle
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Of Open Cities in the Time of Lockdowns
Deserted city streets. Empty or shuttered shops and restaurants. Air travel pretty much grounded. And a raging pandemic in our midst. Seems to be a strange time to be reading a book that is about just the opposite. About a life we once knew, which makes the act of reading it now, a study in… Continue reading Of Open Cities in the Time of Lockdowns
Protected: Reading in the Time of Reckoning
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Owl About Words: Wit or Wily?
The conversation these days is all about restarting the economy. Whether in India, or elsewhere in the world everyone is preoccupied with ways of getting the economy restarted. And one word that invariably comes up in such discussions is "engine" as in engines of growth. How did the word engine come to mean something that… Continue reading Owl About Words: Wit or Wily?
Protected: Seeking Peace in Reading
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Peripatetic Perch 