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- Poetry: Bottoms-up Girl
On a bar stool, sits a contortionist, raises her left leg, her shoes and eyes, are brandished before my face. In this drunk...
- A-vivek of N-Arundhati
When Narundhati treks through the jungles as a guest of Maoists, her biases ignore the blisters on her...
- Poetry: Beaten But Not Bruised, For Black Stars in 2010
I am here to say what score-lines, statistics will not show, not say on July 2, 2010, the Black Stars...
- Shri RamChandra Kripalu Bhajman (Prayer by Tulsidas, With Translation And Notes)
Introduction (for the initiated, for foreigners, for skeptics and for believers) Ramayana is the most important and influential epic...
- Book Review: The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, edited by Jeet Thayil, includes an eclectic, exciting and incredible anthology of poems...
- Joy, Killjoy of Thesis, Antithesis: Waterless Urinals & Water Crisis
New 'waterless' urinals installed in some of the restrooms in MIT and Harvard proclaim that by installing these approximately 40,000...
- Will Manmohan Get An Economic Nobel?
It is about time our Sardarji got it. Sardarji who is credited as father of optical fibers managed to dodge...
- Book Review: Delhi, A Novel by Khushwant Singh
The novel Delhi penned by Khushwant Singh is a story that spans both the grandeur and squalor of the city...
- Art & Technology: A Decade After I Took That Humanities Course
To mention Art and Technology in the same breath requires a shift in perspective, for these two streams of human...
- Rendezvous with Prof. P. Lal, the Bhisham Pitamah of Publishing Indian Writing in EnglishI visited Kolkata and met the legendary poet, translator, writer, professor, publisher: P. Lal. For the poet who has known...
- Elections in India, 2009: Vote for Moderation and Maturity?
Elections in India present outcomes which require an analysis encompassing divergent rationals that co-exist in our bouquet society....
- Poetry: Why the Elephant Was Not Chosen the King
When elections begin, I am often asked to sing,the tale of why elephant wasn't chosen the king.After...
- Book Review: Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile is an incredible yet true story of perhaps the largest and the most expensive...
- 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye's collection contains sixty poems about Palestinians and Middle East, about love and longing for lost and imaginary...
- Mumbai Burns
Did you see the sobbing reporter describe how the Taj of Mumbai burns?How many will Asuras cause to die...
- Ganguly Goes With a Bang
Ganguly dada did it again: produced another knock to remind his critics that he is and will ever be regarded...
- Book Review: Moby Dick
Moby Dick by Hermann Melville is considered by many to be the greatest American novel ever written. To come up...
- Age-Based Reservation in Indian Politics
Saurav Ganguly is out of the one day cricket team. I suppose a golden duck is enough to throw him...
- Satire: BPO Idea: Sir, I'll Sleep for You
"Sir, for five dollars per hour only, I'll sleep for you. I don't need to know what you do with...
- Poetry: How Can This Belief Yield?
With a belief that one day my poems and songs will reach a wider audience, (a belief every aspiring artist...
- Googlies: India-Pak Series, A Nervous Tendulkar and A Mis...Bah!
Tendulkar has missed six centuries in this year, after crossing the score of ninety. Today, it was another instance where...
- Interview with Suchitra Vijayan: Lines of Grey and Social Change Through Photography
Lines of Grey is a project of social change through photography conceptualized and cultivated by Suchitra Vijayan. The...
- Book Review: Ganesha Goes to Lunch by Kamla K. Kapur
Ganesha Goes to Lunch by Kamla K. Kapur is a collection of 24 stories drawn from the oral tradition of...
- Too Hot to Handle
What she lacked in looks, she supplied with her taste. Bold like a mushroom growing on a garden track, she...
- Book Review: A Day in Spring by Ciril Kosmač
A Day in Spring is a beautifully narrated tale by Ciril Kosmač, a Slovene poet, author. The book that first...
- Googlies: India beat Australia in Fourth ODI at Chandigarh
India kept her nerve, and won by eight runs. This headline is enough for certain people. It shuts them down,...
- Book Review: Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Craig F. Bohren
Craig F. Bohren writes science books with a delight that is infectious. There are few books like this where science...
- Janki and Mansoor (Chapter 5)
(Suryakanth Tripathi)When I went to Mr Agrawal's house the first time, the pretext was Satyanarayan Pooja. But I...Vivek Sharma
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- Book Review: Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki is an easy read. You can take it on a few hours flight and read...Vivek Sharma
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- Book Review: A Stranger in the Land (Jewish Identity Beyond Nationalism) by Daniel Cil Brecher
In A Stranger in the Land, Daniel Cil Brecher creates an engaging narrative about Israeli Nationalism. As a Jew who...
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