Kite Runner
Filed in Books,Reviews, December 4, 2007, 10:18 pm by Ganesh VaideeswaranTweetI am not a big reader of fiction. I can certainly count on my fingers the number of fiction that I have finished start to finish in one shot – within a 24 hour period. Kite Runner, a New York Times Bestseller by Khaled Hosseini is one such novel. I am not good at writing […]
Egypt Via My Tunnel Vision
Filed in Travel, December 3, 2007, 9:25 am by Priya RajuTweetOnce again, I lapsed into a period of silence – a silence, almost Omerta – which would have made La Cosa Nostra proud. I watched my husband frenetically type up our adventures in Egypt well into the night, on the teensy keypad of his blackberry. Really, this man Sukumar now – doesn’t he ever feel […]
The humble newspaper as an index?
Filed in General Interest, December 2, 2007, 6:16 am by SukumarTweetAs someone brought up in Chennai, i have long been used to starting my day with The Hindu newspaper. I don’t remember reading the newspaper much during my time at BITS, Pilani except for the occasional copy of the Hindustan Times . I guess, somehow i couldn’t get myself to read other newspapers due to […]
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