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Graveyard of memories
23 Aug 2015 9:04 PM GMTLove and hatred, life and death, science and fact, lost and found; maybe there is just a thin line that separates them and nothing more, Jodi...
Saviour’s guilt
2 Aug 2015 2:45 AM GMTSometimes mending a broken thing is not a good idea. Sometimes it further breaks things. Sometimes one has to let go of trying to place things where...
In Rusty’s world
5 July 2015 9:00 PM GMTIf books are magic, a book that is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s short stories is like a magical train trip to the past. Nostalgia grips you when you...
Click and read
17 May 2015 10:47 PM GMTWhile the debate between preferences over <g data-gr-id="29">hard cover</g> books and ebooks may go on forever, one cannot deny that in...
Old wine, new bottle
10 May 2015 10:28 PM GMTBook adaptations are great, aren’t they? Your favourite characters breathing and walking on the celluloid? Love them or hate them, but you just can’t...
‘Fusion music is nothing but confusion’
10 May 2015 8:15 PM GMTThink of Ghazals and the first name that pops to your head in Ustad Ghulam Ali Khan, the legendary Ghazal singer who gave us gems like Chupke Chupke...
Marsh of memories
3 May 2015 7:23 PM GMT‘The house where I was born had seven windows, But its door is closed to me...’ James K Baxter’s words resonates with you as you read about Kashmiri...
Art in the aftermath
18 April 2015 8:49 PM GMTThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you, Maya Angelou wrote in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the autobiography of her...
Not in a nutshell
5 April 2015 8:30 PM GMTNaila manal Nothing matches the experience of watching a movie made on your favourite book, right? You either hate it or love it but you will...
Feminism on Hashtag
29 March 2015 2:00 AM GMTSanitary pads on trees with messages on feminism. Beer bottles that explain what feminism is. T-shirts that scream, ‘I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I...
A homage to worst book covers ever!
28 March 2015 2:23 AM GMTAs readers haven’t we all read books with tad ‘embarrassing’ book covers? I remember my school friends wrapping copies of numerous ‘chick-lits’ as...
Accomplishing the Grammy dream
8 March 2015 9:16 PM GMTHow was it winning the Grammy?It was something I had never even dreamt about. It seemed so unattainable, because people who do get a Grammy, get it...