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Trilogy in midday

Speaking with Nascimento Pinto about our journey was fun! He was incredibly patient while I went on a number of tangents down memory lane, and when the story came together we were…
A Case for Libraries

First printed in The Asian Age: 29 July, 2018 A case for libraries Ahalya Naidu Momaya The shutter rattles and rolls upwards, I shoulder the glass door open and the bell tinkles.…
McCall Smith’s poems are maps to the soul

“…more precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I…
Obelix and papad

Special dinner time treat!!! How Obelix fell into the magic potion when he was a little boy (and saved me from boredom)! Who needs TV! (Fried papad because we don’t eat boar).
Terry Pratchett

Written many years ago, for a lovely magazine called Byword (click on the word to read the article on their page, and discover amazing essays in it’s new avatar as The Punch…
The long tradition of librarianship

Warm fuzzy feeling filling up the heart! A friend visiting the British Library got ‘Librarian’ pins for us. Overwhelmed. Thank you Jaydev Nansey for all your love. Being a librarian, is more…
Flashback: Notes from JLF

January 27, 2018 Rabih Alameddine is a very important writer for me. Which is why listening to him argue against the importance of novels is very interesting. I loved this: “novels are…
Hush a Bye Bye Work!

Ahalya took the day off. She will claim that she was at work all day and she will be factually right in doing so. But she was not working. Now she will…
Reading Alice in Bhuleshwar

“How do we see the city?…The very streets we walk, and the buildings we see…are patterns of change and history… the neighbourhood offers a kind of visual chaos, incomprehensible to the unexercised eye,…
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