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Akhond of Swat: April 15, 2012
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Saturday, April 21, 2012. Playlist for aspiring authors. You Gotta Have a Gimmick. The right agent and editor will help you prepare for the rigours of authorhood:. Let Me Entertain You. The media, on the other hand, suggests:. Shocking readers is also good:. 8230;and remember, you’re only doing it for your art:. Success from the author’s perspective…:. When You’re Good To Mama. 8230;and success from the publisher’s point of view:. Where Did We Go Right? What people think writing is about. In a hotel room...
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Akhond of Swat: May 20, 2012
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Speaking Volumes: The case for context. Published in the Business Standard, May 22, 2012). Three cartoons by Shankar. Note the way in which he uses whips and ropes to make his point in three completely different political contexts.). It is unreasonable to expect the Dalit community to not take offence at the cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar, drawn by the great cartoonist Shankar in 1949, withdrawn from NCERT textbooks by Indian members of Parliament earlier this month. To argue that the D...
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Akhond of Swat: April 22, 2012
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012. The Business Standard column: Lives, Unsanitised. Published in the Business Standard, April 24, 2012). Before the digital camera age, the venerable photo studios in most large Indian cities offered a tactful service for the recently bereaved. His biography, a work of careful scholarship, is being attacked not because it is inaccurate, but because it interferes with the very Indian demand for a strictly sanitized version of the lives of the famous- as Heehs has said, his critics a...
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Akhond of Swat: Speaking Volumes: The Happiest Bloomsday Ever
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012. Speaking Volumes: The Happiest Bloomsday Ever. Published just after Bloomsday, in the Business Standard). The official menu for Bloomsday is not kind to vegetarians. To celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses in the manner of Leopold Bloom, start with thick giblet soup and nutty gizzards, move on to “a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes”. The end result, though Joyce’s books remained easily accessible, was to chop up his work into memorabl...
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Wilde Vögel: July 2004
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Thursday, July 08, 2004. Year 1 : A summary. Read me to sleep. For a happy piece of prose. A letter to mom. Count of monte cristo. On will and ways. In the garden of eden. Till Death does us apart. Unaccounted piece of paper. All we need is time. A request for prayer. Touched by an angel. A Handful of Land. A Handful of Land revisited. Once upon a time in Belarus. A shot at a void. As the train chugs on. Trusting the human judgement. LCCS - Layman corruption control squad. Instant in a Camera -. Or Micro...
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Movie Quotes | Aise Hi ...
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Aise Hi …. Just like that … some random thoughts from my otherwise blank head. A page dedicated to Memorable Movie Quotes. This page is dedicated to memorable quotes* … mainly quotes from movies … dialogues which have been made famous by movie fans, or maybe just 2 lines that I liked in a movie🙂. And maybe, once in a while, some other “non-filmy” quotes also … something good I read somewhere, or something that I remember from being written on my school’s notice-board as “. Thought For the Day. Sir, mujh...
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Akhond of Swat: The BS column: The Brothers (and Sisters) Grimm
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012. The BS column: The Brothers (and Sisters) Grimm. Published in the Business Standard, March 2012.). They were the best of stories, they were the scariest of stories, told in an age of wisdom, forgotten in an age of foolishness, collected in an epoch of belief, rewritten in an epoch of incredulity. This may have been because few of the tales were conceived by the brothers Grimm, or indeed told by men at all. The genius of the brothers Grimm, who were later to make their reputat...
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Akhond of Swat: June 03, 2012
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012. Speaking Volumes: From Pondies to Weight Loss. Published in the Business Standard, June 2012.). One of the perks of the reviewer’s job is that you will find deathless prose in the most unexpected places, even when it arrives concealed as, say, a weight-loss manual. 8220;Trying to lose weight? Mind Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind. Mind.”. Image from The Harappa Files, by Sarnath Banerjee). It is also impossible to talk about the manga industry...
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Akhond of Swat: Speaking Volumes: Emperors, apostates and absences
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Speaking Volumes: Emperors, apostates and absences. Published in the Business Standard, August 14, 2012). The price Raja Rammohan Roy paid in the early 19th century for expressing his views on Hinduism and sati was not minor. His mother ostracized the Brahmo reformer, and declared that he should not be allowed to inherit family property because he was an ‘apostate’. There were two kinds of persecution, however, that writers like Raja Rammohan Roy didn’t have to face̵...