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president blink-blink: a mature response to the end of the year

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010. A mature response to the end of the year. While I gather up my courage for a 'Year in Reading' post, a Q&A meme in which I was tagged months ago by Aisha. All answers calibrated to reflect reading/re-reading between January-December this year. 1 Favourite childhood book? Anne of Green Gables. 2 What are you reading right now? Freedarko's The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History. And Madhusree Mukherjee's Churchill's Secret War. 3 Bad book habit? My Mint story on the bo...

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president blink-blink: lampedusa and lucy maude

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Sunday, May 16, 2010. Lampedusa and lucy maude. I have so much backlog I can totally NOT read anything new until I clear this up. * hides What Is The What. Under the table *. 44 The Leopard, Giovanni Tomasi di Lampedusa, trans Archibald Colquhoun. 45-52 The Anne books, LM Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables. Anne of the Island. Anne's House of Dreams. Anne of Windy Willows. Briefly, but as a book about the Great War, this particular one becomes deeply saddening for other, unintended reasons. Here, I write a...

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president blink-blink: march memoir madness: kaifi, obama, crisp, seth, mill

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Sunday, March 28, 2010. March memoir madness: kaifi, obama, crisp, seth, mill. 25 Kaifi and I, Shaukat Kaifi, trans. Nasreen Rehman. Arise, my love, you must walk with me today. Annoyingly paternalistic to read today? 26 Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama. I am so weary of admiring Barack Obama's BRAAAIIIINS I have no way to express it. His story is of course an eminently tellable one in broad strokes: parents! 27 The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp. 28 Two Lives, Vikram Seth. Oh, John Stuart Mill&#4...

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president blink-blink: gyan prakash: mumbai fables

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Monday, November 22, 2010. Gyan prakash: mumbai fables. I would have loved to write a more detailed review of this book, which I recommend unreservedly. Instead, this is a piece I wrote for Mint Lounge earlier this month on the writing of the book itself. You can read it in newspaper version here. Loved this article when I read it in Mint. Stumbled upon the blog via Jai Arjun Singhs blog and hence exploiting the opportunity to thank you. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Here, I write about books and s...

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Two paise’s worth…. | For want of a better name..

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For want of a better name. 8220;Squeeze my lemons”. Two paise’s worth…. June 18, 2007. The Prime Minister’s speech at the CII meet oh-so-many-moons ago threw up a number of valid points which have been debated to death and beyond in the mainstream media. The very fact that these issues have found some space in public discourse is a welcome thing, and for that the PM’s speech scores high in my book. For a cooler and way more incisive speech regarding these issues, click on the blue words. The other point ...

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For want of a better name.. | “Squeeze my lemons” | Page 2

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For want of a better name. 8220;Squeeze my lemons”. New Year’s Day. January 2, 2007. Seems as good a time as any to restart this. Hopefully my loyal readers (all two and a half of them) will continue to patronize me after my long hiatus. So happy new year everyone! Its all right to spread some cheer, but too much cheer never does anyone any good now, does it? Do come back and say hello once in a while. Just so you’re not the last to know. August 2, 2006. That construction of that last sentence hurts me p...

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This just isn’t cricket | For want of a better name..

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For want of a better name. 8220;Squeeze my lemons”. This just isn’t cricket. March 29, 2007. Short post written in machine gun joycean rant format as I don’t have time and I have a microeconomics test tomorrow and I need to kickstart this blog again and thankfully this computer has decided to shrug off its perpetual PMS-mood to give me some love and actually work. This explains the oh-so-cliched title. They’re only making the most of an opportunity, and isn’t that the mantra these days? Cheer with them, ...

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Left of the muddled | For want of a better name..

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For want of a better name. 8220;Squeeze my lemons”. Left of the muddled. May 9, 2007. Truly, the only other woman besides Whoopi Goldberg that can make me laugh as hard is the Indian Express’ very own Tavleen Singh. If you’re feeling down on a sunday morning and need a bit of humour to spicen up your day, nothing can be more entertaining than this bit of delightful columnspace. Her opinions and objections to the left are, it has to be said, downright silly. Sample this :. And does Tavleen truly believe i...

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president blink-blink: the april shit-list

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010. The first few books I read this month were largely disheartening, and I can't bring myself to write much about any of them [apart from Danielle Steele, obviously] so I'm making post-its, rather than notes, about them. 32 Songs of Blood and Sword, Fatima Bhutto. 33 Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis. Boring. No saving grace whatsoever. I'm about to read The Last Temptation. Soon and it had better make up for this hideously boring nonsense times ten. 35 Loving, Danielle Steele.