Category: Slice of Life
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Living Inside a Book : Reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace in Coorg.
I read War and Peace over ten days in Coorg, in a red cushy chair overlooking a coffee plantation or a balcony above the…
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The Library That Was My Storm and My Harbour
Coming back from a matter today in Tis Hazari, I visited the Delhi Public Library today, after decades. This is where it all began…
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Outsourcing ‘Feeling’ or “The Letter Writer” (Poetry Night)
Do you mind outsourcing to me- What you always wanted to say, But couldn’t find a way. Listen, I can write that letter for…
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My favourite books and authors. Top 45 non-law reads.
Many of you have reached out to me – over the years – seeking book recommendations, or asking me – who my favourite authors…
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Everything
Why does it feel like,That I’ve been places with you; Places that I haven’t visited, or even read about. Places (both inside and out) that I…
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the year 2020, in books. balancing the desire to be lost with the longing to be found.
Books have meant different things to me – at different points of time in my life. At times, I’ve read to understand and interpret…
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A quick review of ‘Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World’ by Fareed Zakaria.
I didn’t imagine 2020 to shape out the way that it did. And my guess is – you didn’t, either. ‘The most well laid…
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Diary of a Dust Bin
An unemployed-post-graduate’s resume- for an underpaying clerical job; A poor widow’s application- for an insignificant pension; A prescription for medicines- that the abandoned senior…
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From Bar to Bench, and back | Story of Life So Far; Well, More or Less.
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within…
