Notes on studying History and loose use of Narcissism

August 30, 2011

History by its very nature is strange. Central to studying history is its allure to be able to deal with a complete set of opposites: To start with, history exists and yet it doesn’t. On one hand, history can be a bundle of facts and on the other it can be a metaphorical image to [...]

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England India test series- a historical perspective

August 17, 2011

Watching the England-India test series was like watching Hannibal’s campaign against Rome during the second Punic war. It is even fair to say that never in living memory has one witnessed a complete decimation of a side, so comprehensively by another. It is said that during the great battle of Cannae in Southern Italy, halfway [...]

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Move. Learn. Eat.

August 6, 2011

A brilliant mash-up video, have shared the links, but wanted them all together here. MOVE: MOVE – STA Travel Australia LEARN: LEARN – STA Travel Australia   EAT: EAT – STA Travel Australia That was well conceived and executed, three cheers to Rick Mereki

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Paris Trance, Geoff Dyer

August 6, 2011

The book jacket identifies the Paris Trance as a romance. I suppose to a large extent it is indeed a romance. Geoff Dyer, who I am getting to scorningly, grudglingly admire ( more for the life he’s lead than his writing, which by no measure is any less admirable) is a writer of themes and [...]

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Everton Two, Liverpool 1

July 27, 2011

For the population of Merseyside the first question that pops out , even before the name and the vocation is..’ Are you a Red (fan) or a Blue (fan)? For those who are uninitiated in Football and jerseys, the question is meant to find out whether you are a Liverpool FC fan or an Everton [...]

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Barrage of Indian mediocrity….

July 14, 2011

So Mumbai has been terrorized, yet again. It has become such a ritual that it would be even fair if the terrorists are accused of ‘lacking in imagination‘ along with a dozen or so charges that Rakesh Maria and his team are likely to file against someone in Karachi or Lucknow or perhaps in a [...]

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Naipaul and the world…

June 12, 2011

So here it is as promised. Wrote it whenever I got time last week, couldn’t get around to edit it though. Grab a drink or start a playlist.  VS Naipaul’s latest alleged barb at the Royal Geographic Society last week about women writers being ‘unequal’ to him had women from all corners of the world [...]

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Fools and Nods on Indian Twitterdom

June 6, 2011

I know I am old for this but the sheer magnitude of cluelessness out there on the Indian twitterdom is startling, even by Indian standards. So a quick one whilst I write the other post I owe on Naipaul’s remarks about women writers from last week. I logged on to dear twitter after a good [...]

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Esquire woman we love

June 1, 2011

Esquire woman we love – Daisy Lowe from esquireuk on Vimeo. Daisy Lowe for Esquire – a full year after it has been uploaded, but nevertheless. A wonderful stitch of edits of Daisy’s behind the scene moves during a photoshoot?

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Blog Syndicate…

May 22, 2011

Dear Readers,  I have great news about the website. As you know I have many sub-blogs. This is purely for personal reasons. The main purpose of the multiple blogs is to ensure I can keep the posts separate. But I know it doesn’t necessarily help the reader to follow all the blogs. A lot of [...]

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Death of Bismarck – Photostory

May 21, 2011

Photo by Max Priester and Willy Wilcke , 1898. This photograph is perhaps one of the iconic and at the same time one of the controversial snaps of the 19th century. Due to a series of events it wasn’t released until after the Second World War. The man in the picture is Otto van Bismarck [...]

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The stern, solemn, supersober and the sullen…

May 15, 2011

In which I give to the world the latest phrase/idiom I have invented – it’s as easy as getting a joke past Coetzee. Because if Geoff Dyer couldn’t do it, no one can? Comic genius. Geoff Dyer, with JM Coetzee!

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Reading Geoff Dyer and Elif Batuman :

May 8, 2011

So, dear readers, here we are again on a rainy Sunday evening. If you are not reading this post on a feed reader, you would have noticed the change to the blog theme. All credit to a dear friend V who took upon himself to sort out my languishing little site here. I am told [...]

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