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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Day 1 of the Hay Festival at Kanakakunnu Palace, Trivandrum – Forenoon
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Day 1 of the Hay Festival at Kanakakunnu Palace, Trivandrum – Forenoon. The Festival was inaugurated by MA Baby (Kerala’s Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs), who affirmed that this confluence of writers and creators from around the world was bound to provide an enriching experience for everyone. Very well, enough of caustic! Discussed their works at the R...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Book Reviews
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. A Week in December- Sebastian Faulks. The Afghan- Frederick Forsyth. A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (2009). The finale was abrupt and inconclusive- what else could be expected within a week? More fireworks would have been irritably melodramatic and tying up loose ends is not representative of real life! As for other pros and cons:. Perhaps to escape being slammed with a libel case, Fau...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Thoughts on the celebration of words (aka Hay Festival 2010)
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Monday, December 27, 2010. Thoughts on the celebration of words (aka Hay Festival 2010). As alluded to in the opening post, the Hay Festival in Trivandrum was a total surprise and an excellent example of how some of the finest experiences in life are free. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Follow me on Twitter. I also blog at. Tweet After running an errand ...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Day 3 Hay Festival, Kanakakunnu Palace, Trivandrum – Forenoon
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Thursday, December 23, 2010. Day 3 Hay Festival, Kanakakunnu Palace, Trivandrum – Forenoon. The resplendent Palace Hall was the site for Shashi Tharoor’s. The Great Indian Novel; The Elephant, The Tiger and the Cell Phone; Bookless in Baghdad. At 1115, this very dais was occupied by Nik Gowing. The sessions in the Reading Room commenced with Welsh poets ( Menna Elfyn, Paul Henry. On the unwrit...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Day 2 Hay Festival, Trivandrum – Afternoon
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Friday, December 17, 2010. Day 2 Hay Festival, Trivandrum – Afternoon. Dalrymple is no stranger to India and India is no stranger to Dalrymple. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. Which revolves around the varied spiritual lives of nine individuals. Dalrymple has the knack of captivating his readers (and listeners) and enabling them to vividly envisage the entire scenarios....
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: And the mountain comes to Kerala….
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Monday, November 29, 2010. And the mountain comes to Kerala…. 8230;or rather more precisely to Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala. And so it turned out that, unlike Mohammed, I didn’t have to go to the mountain after all! Is this some belated April 1st prank? Gave way to shouts of glee, and soon, I decided to squeeze in the Hay festival despite other commitments. After all, such opportuniti...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Day 3 Hay Festival, Kanakakunnu Palace, Trivandrum – Afternoon
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Monday, December 27, 2010. Day 3 Hay Festival, Kanakakunnu Palace, Trivandrum – Afternoon. I had been looking forward to the first session in the Palace Hall after lunch- British novelist Sebastian Faulks. By journalist Rosie Boycott. Faulks began by introducing his upcoming book,. In which he evaluates many fictional characters (including Fitzwilliam Darcy of. Charlotte Gray, Engleby. Reading...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: Finale
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Monday, December 27, 2010. All good things must come to an end, and akin to a splendid novel, the Hay Festival concluded with an electrifying pinnacle: a full-length concert by Bob Geldof and his punk rock band The Boomtown Rats at the Nishagandhi Amphitheatre. As mentioned before, after the church service and armed with piping hot. And at around 20 minutes past seven, the concert. And we retu...
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Making Hay in the Sunshine: December 2010
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Making Hay in the Sunshine. All about the Hay Festival 2010 conducted in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala. Monday, December 27, 2010. Thoughts, suggestions, two cents…. Whilst I was quite amazed at the low airtime provided by the local media, I find that this ensured that only genuine enthusiasts participated/turned up. It might also be convenient if the Festival will be conducted on the Friday-Saturday-Sunday of the week - for the benefit of those of us here/may be elsewhere/would be elsewhere.
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