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Month: January 2013

26Jan
39 comments on “Beloved by Toni Morrison -A Review”

Beloved by Toni Morrison -A Review

Posted by umashankaron January 26, 2013August 18, 2013in Book Reviews39 Comments

'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness.' -Toni Morrison Man is not God yet he has played God not only with his fellow animals but his fellow humans too. And what a God he has…

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23Jan
41 comments on “Don’t Cry for Headley, India!”

Don’t Cry for Headley, India!

Posted by umashankaron January 23, 2013August 18, 2013in Uncorked Angst41 Comments

Don’t cry for Headley, India. It is good for your feeble heart that you are not able to have him extradited. There would be a hundred compelling sentiments to get hold of the delinquent, a thousand compelling logics to twist…

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06Jan
75 comments on “A Hole in My Pyjamas”

A Hole in My Pyjamas

Posted by umashankaron January 6, 2013August 18, 2013in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst75 Comments

It’s a cold night and there is a hole in my pyjamas. It is shameless of me to be cribbing in a city that has never seen the mercury slipping below ten while the good old Delhi is raring to…

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01Jan
48 comments on “2012 in review”

2012 in review

Posted by umashankaron January 1, 2013January 2, 2013in Such is Life48 Comments

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 34,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this…

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Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

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Another Day like This

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Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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