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                Touching Lives - The little known triumphs of the Indian space programme by S.K.Das When I first saw this book, and heard some good words about it, it somehow failed to generate interest in me. Perhaps, the name ISRO made me feel that this is not my [...]
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“Adventures in Antarctica” is a sort of travelogue book, written by the brother-sister duo of Suravi and Rishi Thomas, aged 16 and 13 respectively, at the time when the book was released. I just browsed through the book for sometime, sitting in the library. I should say, its [...]
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No book caused me more dissappointment in the recent past than “Tales from Firozshahbagh” by Rohinton Mistry. It is a collection of stories. Again, as usual, all set in a Parsi locality in Mumbai. This time, he does not touch politics. He touches the ordinary lives of people there. When I read it some one [...]
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“Such a long journey” is the first novel of Rohinton Mistry, the Indian-Canadian writer. This was nominated for Bookers prize in 1991 and won Common Wealth writers prize in 1992. I remember reading in papers about Mistry for the first time when he got Commonwealth writers prize in 1996 for his novel - “A Fine [...]
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“Scoop!” is a collection of essays by Kuldip Nayar. Anyone who has been atleast cursory readers of Indian English news papers must be familiar with this name - Kuldip Nayar. I believe many vernacular newspapers also should be carrying on translated versions of his columns, for I see Nayar’s writings regularly in “eenaadu”. I don’t [...]
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Home and the world is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, one of the genius brains that I ever came across (not in person, ofcourse…). It is originally written as “Ghar Baire” in 1915. It was translated and published in English by Surendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore’s nephew in 1919, with inputs from the elder Tagore himself. [...]
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I have been reading RKN all along my readerlylife and will still keep doing so. The latest book that I came across is “Writerly Life” - selected non-fiction of R.K.Narayan. It included “My Dateless dairy” in toto, Collected essays from “reluctant guru”, “writer’s nightmare”,”story teller’s world” etc. As usual, it is a reader’s delight [...]
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I am reading R.K.Narayan’s selected non-fiction - “Writerly Life”. In an essay - “When India was a colony”, taken from his collection - “The world of the writer”, I found this interesting paragraph… this is the first time I am reading RKN writing about this particular issue of colnialism etc, which is responsible for my [...]
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If the propernouns mentioned in the title of this post sound totally alien to you, let me first explain them. Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese movie by none other than Akira Kurosawa. Its said as a kind of prequel to Sanjuro, about which I blogged a [...]
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I am in the process of listing “one book favourites” of mine, since 2001. I listed till 2003 in the previous post, here. Now, the second and last post under this heading: 2004: On yet another Republic Day, I again [...]
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Long back in 1997, I was given a blue covered dairy by my father, to keep an account of what books I am reading. I was in school those days, knew nothing about internet and computers. I knew nothing beyond my school’s library and dad’s personal library. So, there began my book-keeping work about books. [...]
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                   I was just randomly surfing a list of publications on IIIT’s site here.  Here, I found a report titled - “A simple approach to build transliteration editors for Indian languages” by Prahallad et.al., published in Journal of Zhejiang University Science, in october 2005.  I was just flipping through the pages, when I noticed something, [...]
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                 Today, I was browsing through this old book, which I keep by side and scribble down some lines which I like when I read some books. As I glanced through it, I realised that I never completed several of the books lines from which I wrote in that book. That is not because the [...]
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I first listened to the songs of “Cheeni Kum” and stuck to them. Then, having had the chance to see the movie since long time and not using it, I finally saw the movie yesterday. Looks like I have become a fan of the Movie and Zohra Sehgal after that! Its a nice movie to [...]
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Well, trying to use telugu transliterators online for the past many days and I myself involved in making one, I cannot but resist writing about the Indian Language transliterators available on the web, in my blog. I prefer to keep this post in English for the only reason that - even non-telugus who stumble upon [...]
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