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To kill a mocking bard

21 July 2014 2:13 AM IST
‘I’ll be sworn, I was ne’er guilty of reading the like.’ - Ben Johnson, Every Man in His HumourThe Cuckoo’s Calling over and done with, Robert...

Quilts of India: Timeless textiles

13 July 2014 6:52 AM IST
As a Rabari bride-to-be sews a gudri (quilt) to take to her groom’s house, she sings, ‘Who has stolen my gudri with the priceless tassels and bells?’...

In the Light of What we know

7 July 2014 2:28 AM IST
The achievements of exile are permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind.' A welsh word has been quite popular on the Internet in the...

Desolation

7 July 2014 2:23 AM IST
The standard discourse surrounding the Kashmir Valley is usually shrouded under the dark cloud of militancy. The early ‘90s was probably the darkest...

Artist of the floating world

23 Jun 2014 4:10 AM IST
In a country that has a published volume of poetry by its current prime minister, poets like Sridala Swami are both recluses and soft moons lighting...

From Cradle to the Book Shelf

23 Jun 2014 4:05 AM IST
You may think it’s difficult to write history because of the tedious process of fact collection and collation involved in it. You may also think it is...

Knights in shining armour

16 Jun 2014 4:47 AM IST
A collection of extraordinary short stories from the alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) - Veerkumars of Rajwada – is a spectacularly...

Those lives of others

16 Jun 2014 4:45 AM IST
So why have they come...are they seeking or are they running away?Rajkumari or Princess narrates a tale of love, heartbreak, desolation and never...

Animal spirits

9 Jun 2014 2:02 AM IST
The very real danger of extinction faced by the species panthera pardus, tigers in common parlance, is something that we are generally aware of. The...

A victim of its times

25 May 2014 8:47 PM IST
The mystique Tibet has always held amongst Western commentators is well chronicled. Despite posing great challenges to modern communication systems,...

Tender is the light

19 May 2014 2:28 AM IST
There are a few books and writers which take the meaning of writing as an extremely serious endeavour. Those writers are even rarer for whom writing...

Cry me a river

19 May 2014 2:26 AM IST
Can pain be mapped? Can obfuscations of an old decaying world embedded in the dank soil of a depleting forest, emanating from the rustling of luscious...
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