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Author: umashankar

I am just a watcher then. Sometimes I watch life, sometimes I watch death; many times I watch in between...
23Feb
58 comments on “Unreliable Skunks”

Unreliable Skunks

Posted by umashankaron February 23, 2013August 18, 2013in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst58 Comments

Having entered a phase of life where I tend to reflect more in retrospect than in prospect, it has dawned upon me why I’ve been in love with the character of Sherlock Holmes all these years. More than his prescient…

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17Feb
61 comments on “Merci, Mes Amis”

Merci, Mes Amis

Posted by umashankaron February 17, 2013January 4, 2018in Such is Life61 Comments

"Who enrolled me in the ranks of the human race?" –Joseph Brodsky Yesterday, I attended a blogging community meet in a trendy restaurant specialising in exotic Mediterranean delicacies. The sponsors were a popular notebook company and as usual, they did…

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12Feb
37 comments on “Red Sorghum by Mo Yan”

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

Posted by umashankaron February 12, 2013April 10, 2016in Book Reviews37 Comments

Mo Yan is not quite the toast of the writing community west of China. When the Nobel Prize for Literature went his way in 2012, it was deemed a ‘catastrophe’, a ‘betrayal’ and an ‘ominous signal’ by the fraternity, including…

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02Feb
37 comments on “The Box by Günter Grass”

The Box by Günter Grass

Posted by umashankaron February 2, 2013August 18, 2013in Book Reviews37 Comments

Günter Grass is a versatile artist, a colossal literary, cultural and political figure of Germany. He has been a recipient of several high prizes for his works, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. More than that, he has…

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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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20Dec
64 comments on “The Indian Shepherd”

The Indian Shepherd

Posted by umashankaron December 20, 2012August 12, 2019in Such is Life64 Comments

In a deal that clicked a couple of years too late for me, Syed would sell the disused Nikon from his studio for a thousand rupees to me. He loaded it with a complimentary black and white roll too, making…

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15Dec
50 comments on “The Slippery Slope”

The Slippery Slope

Posted by umashankaron December 15, 2012August 18, 2013in Such is Life50 Comments

A marble drops on the slate of mind and clatters to silence.  It is the lone rattle in the void of ages. I freeze to attention and hold my breath to stop it rolling off the precipice. But it is…

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13Dec
22 comments on “In the Arc Light”

In the Arc Light

Posted by umashankaron December 13, 2012in Such is Life22 Comments

I don’t suggest that you read ‘Personal Concerns’ because Amit has published a tête-à-tête with me in his latest post at his riveting blog. You read Amit for what he pens. His writing is intense yet panoramic, needle-sharp yet cosmic,…

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30Nov
40 comments on “Déjà vu”

Déjà vu

Posted by umashankaron November 30, 2012May 29, 2013in Such is Life40 Comments

“A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.” –Trinity in Matrix Yes, something changed in the Matrix here and it can’t quite be called a glitch. You are not a good writer…

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The Man Thing

The Vegetable Rice Chef

Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

The Giggling Gladiator

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

Luna's Story

‘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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