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Sep 2, 20074 min read
Memories in the mist
Sometimes the very slimness of a book attracts. While there are times that one loves the feel of several tomes on the bedside table, each...
Aug 5, 20074 min read
Silences of Shangri La
Sometimes things have a way of building up gently, unobtrusively. Serendipitous straws in the wind have been pulling me back to James...
Jul 1, 20074 min read
Not such an idle fellow
To the writer of a column called “Second Thoughts”, it should have long occurred to read a book called Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow....
Jun 3, 20074 min read
Reluctant writers
THE allure of a literary recluse is difficult to resist, particularly in a world where authors are falling over each other to be in the...
May 6, 20074 min read
Song of the road
CALL it a leftover fantasy of youth, or perhaps the last burst of middle-aged angst, but I still want to do a Kerouac. Just pick up the...
Apr 1, 20074 min read
Delhi, yesterday
THE two hours in Lahore permitted only a quick lunge into a highly recommended bookshop. But the pickings were good. The top catch was a...
Mar 4, 20074 min read
Poet of the hopeless
I REMEMBER well that December evening in Moscow when I picked up a fresh copy of the slim volume of Chekhov's short stories that I have...
Feb 4, 20074 min read
In the land of the Panjachinar
FOR a panic stricken moment, just before a short trip to Kabul, no book on Afghanistan comes to mind. Then suddenly, as the news spreads...
Jan 7, 20074 min read
Prayers answered, somewhat... ?
AN unfinished novel by a great author has all the poignancy of a bird shot in mid-flight. The same sort of questions are left, hovering...
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