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Book Review – Ministry Of Utmost Happiness
I was expecting better from Suzanna Arundhati Roy but alas, this book does not come anywhere near close to the brilliance of her first novel. I’d bought this at a book promotion event at Dublin where author explained her reasons … Continue reading
Mere Rashk-e-Qamar – Sufi Ghazal
This Urdu ghazal was penned by the Pakistani poet Fana Buland Shehri. Fana’s Real name was Muhammad Hanif, he was shagird (student) of well known Urdu Poet Qamar Jalalvi میرے رشکِ قمر تو نے پہلی نظر، جب نظر سے ملائی … Continue reading
Airfield Reader’s Day: Mountains To Sea DLR Book Festival
Today, I attended along with my wife the Reader’s day event at Airfield estate held as part of Mountains To Sea DLR Book Festival mountainstosea.ie. It was a great event and an opportunity to meet with a number of talented … Continue reading
Fascinating Words
If you’re fascinated by words, then this is for you… Glabella – The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella. Petrichor – The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor. Aglet – The plastic or metallic coating … Continue reading
You start dying slowly – Pablo Neruda
You start dying slowly If you do not travel, If you do not read, If you do not listen to the sounds of life, If you do not appreciate yourself. You start dying slowly When you kill your self-esteem; When … Continue reading
Three Contemporary Spinozas – The Los Angeles Review of Books
Three Contemporary Spinozas – The Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Crediting Poetry – Seamus Heaney’s Nobel Lecture
R.I.P Seamus Heaney (April 13, 1939–August 30, 2013) When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of … Continue reading
Isi gumaan me…
Isi gumaan me dekhti rahi teri tasveer subah se shaam tak, Ke shayad yahi bol pade meri ankh se girte hue ansoon dekh kar.!!
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Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile
I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through books that I first realized there were other worlds beyond … Continue reading
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