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tukde: July 2009
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Train to the past. I boarded the Metro from Krishi Bhavan, having followed very clear instructions from concerned parents about how to buy the token and how to use it. The cleanliness of the station, the silence and the discipline were amazing - it seemed like I had descended the stairs to another world, where rickety buses, shouting conductors hanging out of the doors and rushing hordes of people didn't exist. Delhi School of Economics. This ...
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tukde: Train to the past
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Train to the past. I boarded the Metro from Krishi Bhavan, having followed very clear instructions from concerned parents about how to buy the token and how to use it. The cleanliness of the station, the silence and the discipline were amazing - it seemed like I had descended the stairs to another world, where rickety buses, shouting conductors hanging out of the doors and rushing hordes of people didn't exist. Delhi School of Economics.
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tukde: March 2009
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Sunday, March 22, 2009. कुछ सुंदर पंक्तियाँ. कवि कुछ ऐसी तान सुनाओ कि सब कुछ उथल-पुथल हो जाए. जब भी अतीत में जाता हूँ, मुर्दों को नहीं जिलाता हूँ. पीछे हटकर फेंकता हूँ बाण, जिससे कम्पित हो वर्तमान. क्यों उसे संजोने की, उससे कुछ सीखने की कोशिश न करें? क्योंकि हम अपने कल से नाता तोड़ चुके और आज में अपना अस्तित्व ढूंढ रहे हैं? पोथी पढ़ पढ़ जग मुआ, पंडित भया. न कोई।. ढाई आखर प्रेम का, पढ़े सो पंडित होई॥. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Alexander McCall Smith (almost everything).
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tukde: Just read...
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Thursday, July 16, 2009. क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ", the first part of Dr. Harivanshrai Bachchan's autobiography. I got this one a couple of years ago from one of the bookshops in Connaught Place, and could come round to reading it only now. Before I launched into my impressions of the book. My husband, of course, has had to bear the brunt - I've been exploiting his limited grasp of Hindi literature and yet, his interest in poetry, to wax eloquent. Train to the past.
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tukde: July 2008
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. E by Matt Beaumont. A new author, a new format, and generous helpings of contemporary, Dilbertian humor. The book's called e, and it's written as a series of e-mails floating through the computers of the various characters that inhabit an advertising agency. The Unchanged Value of Things. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). E by Matt Beaumont. The Unchanged Value of Things. Alexander McCall Smith (almost everything). Possession by A.S. Byatt.
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tukde: The Unchanged Value of Things
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The Unchanged Value of Things. Today, my generation can afford full-cream milk. We can buy a whole pack of cream from the supermarket without a second thought. But, when we see malai or ghee, we think 'saturated fat' and 'high cholesterol'. We'd much rather buy olive oil, which is much more expensive than pure ghee or cream ever was. E by Matt Beaumont. The Unchanged Value of Things. Alexander McCall Smith (almost everything).
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tukde: mi mumbaikar
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Thursday, September 4, 2008. When you've invested lakhs of rupees in setting up a business and spend most of your living hours in growing it and make it profitable, it's fairly understandable that you don't want a bunch of hooligans swooping down to attack and loot your enterprise. Principles and culture don't come into it- it's all a matter of saving your life and belongings. Alexander McCall Smith (almost everything). The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
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tukde: August 2008
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Memories of a weekend in Alunda. The first view from the bus of a green carpet of paddy fields, tall grass, lush trees and swollen rivers and ponds. A lazy afternoon with the sound of the wind through the garden, the occasional birdcall, and the constant tinkling of wind chimes. Untamed greenery almost five feet in height, growing thickly, running over every bit of available soil. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Memories of a weekend in Alunda.
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tukde: Strike two
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Pieces of Life; Snatches of Thought. Tuesday, September 9, 2008. Fellow citizens, beware of being a public personality. Especially beware of being a public personality in Mumbai. And if you have the misfortune of being both, better learn Marathi pronto. What's the point of all this? Issues that would give them the necessary political mileage and lots of positive press, and in the process, also create some benefits for the aam junta. Marathi is already a compulsory language or a compulsory third language ...
