'Lonely Words'
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I'am as lonely as a snail in the still/silent night-desert. There is no one
for me to talk to, about many things, so I am putting these lonely words in
a h...
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"Modern Arabic Fiction - An Anthology"
Edited by: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Columbia University Press • New York
2010 / 1,080 pages
Download Link
Beginning wi...
Alcoholics Anonymous The 'BIG BOOK'
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You can read the Alcoholics Anonymous 'BIG BOOK' here, and download it in
pdf format... http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
Inside you is an Ugly Betty
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Inside you is an Ugly Betty, an Elle Woods or a Desperate Housewife. A
flawed woman, an imperfect woman eager to make herself more perfect for
someone else...
Joseph Heller: Something Happened
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Last year I wrote a piece which suggested, among other things, that Joseph
Heller is famous for the wrong book; that Catch-22, while good, is not a
patch o...
David Markson: This Is Not A Novel
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The tributes that followed the recent death of David Markson inspired me to
pick up one of his novels, something I’d been hesitant about before.
Cursory fl...
Kumarakom
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About 2 hours drive from Kochi, Kumarakom is a beautiful backwater location
and is a must visit. Meandering canals, sprawling paddy fields, Vembanad
Lake, ...
We are all bad girls.
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An ex once said to me that he would only marry a girl of such extreme
immaculate wholesomeness that even her father would not have dared lay a
hand on her,...
Holiday Home work
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Some people, very few in fact have an actual glimpse of things ‘past’. The
others just get to look at aging ancestors, old photographs on Facebook or
Geni,...
Learning To Frame
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K and his wife M were in town this past weekend and when they called to say
hello, we invited them over for dinner. K and DB went to school together
and we...
Moving!
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Hi everyone,
As I've hinted at previously, this blog is moving. Please direct your keen
interest toward http://imagitude.com. I've successfully imported ...
Lit Links & Scoops
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- The coolest Bible I've ever seen, created by a Swedish Atheist, via Huffington
Post's 12 Must-Have Books for Your Bookshelves
- Not to be a brat but re...
Barcelona Diary (Sep 2011) Las Ramblas
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* Las Ramblas* in Barcelona is a large pedestrian street lined with
restaurants, cafes, souvenir shops, flower kiosks and bustling with
tourists, locals, ...
Bangalore Chronicle
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Reblogged from Ghumakkar Chronicles: Its been 6 months since we moved to
Bangalore. Visits from in-laws and parents resulted in a lot of
sight-seeing in an...
Goodbye!
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I've realized that I have nothing more to say under this particular name. I
think I should stop hiding behind a pseudonym and be courageous enough to
write...
My first real, normal valentine’s day
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began today, at one second past midnight.
It’s surprising that I had to be 36 before I can get this kind of
Valentine’s Day, but here it is now, and I am ...
Thanksgiving in Namma Bengaluru – II
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Meanwhile, a little later, I’m kinda alone with the male half of the
engaged couple, trying to fill that thing called the uncomfortable silence.
As usually...
When Gabriel Garcia Marquez Saw Ernest Hemingway
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For a fraction of a second, as always seemed to be the case, I found myself
divided between my two competing roles. I didn’t know whether to ask him
for ...
Google Goes Local (Indian) Once again
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Google Celebrates 80th Anniversary of Alam Ara : First Indian Movie with
Sound….two months ago, Google celebrated Makar Sankranthi
Men, Listen Up
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According to the *Times of India*, the five things men need to do to
attract women are 1] grow old, 2] hang around in a hot place, 3] get beaten
up, 4] w...
Come & Plant a Sapling!
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This Christmas, gift our precious Mumbai and Mumbaikars the gift of
greenery. Join me as I participate in ‘The Sapling Project’, the brainchild
of [Satish ...
avocado-cilantro rice
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The name sounds slightly awkward. The way the two main ingredients rhyme
together, but there is nothing awkward about the dish at all! So there is
this nic...
My Love for Jahnavi Barua's Writing
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I picked up *Next Door* in a bookstore once and looked at the back
curiously. I bought it because it had stories from Assam. I was totally
unprepared for t...
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Class,
Stop annoying the hell out of me and get on with your life.
- If you're November-born and have schizophrenia, it's completely
understandable. But ...
Behind the Masque
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Ahem. Where was I? Ah, yes... Hi, everyone! Sorry I missed Halloween by a
couple of weeks, but it's taken a while to get things back in order here.
The blo...
Kirk Cameron: Christian Movies / Box Office
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Kirk Cameron, Left Behind Kirk Cameron: Gays 'Unnatural' – Plus Cameron's
Banana Video As for Kirk Cameron, he hasn't had a very fruitful film
career, as t...
REVIEW: SERGIO MARTINO'S "TORSO" (1973) ON BLU-RAY
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*By Todd Garbarini*
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Sergio Martino’s *Torso* (1973) was originally recommended to me on VHS at
a Chiller Theatre horror film convention in 1999. I...
L.Q. Jones Keeps an Eye on Sam
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Recently, I wrote up *The Wild Bunch* for TCM's Essentials. It was an
enjoyable task as I got to read loads of biographies, autobiographies and
all manner...
Vampyres (Larraz, 1974)
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"They shared the pleasures of the flesh, and the horrors of the grave!"
A drab attempt at horror eroticism. There's an interesting patina of decay
over La...
Nineteen Fifty-Five
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In memory of the late Damien Bona, I'm posting a list of favorite films
from 1955 - which was his birth year, but also in his opinion (and t...
Horse Feathers
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Wanye Koestenbaum's new book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx offers, in his words, "a blow-by-blow annotation of Harpo's onscreen actions." It also offers descript...
exploring the in-between spaces
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I have no idea where such expectations came from, but I’m rather ashamed to
admit now that I went into Chocolat (Claire Denis, France/Cameroon, 1988)
think...
February 2011 Movies
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Going back through my Netflix history and various records, I was more than
a little surprised to find but one movie listed for February, a schlocky B
pictu...
Return
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*Return* has an abiding interest in the the subtle power of trauma to alter
our view of the world, to make the familiar seem strange. For
recently-return...
Pandora’s digital box: From films to files
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“Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it, but I never figured
I’d be going there.” DB here: Actually it wasn’t originally a box but a
jug. And...
USA imports of foreign films 1913-1925
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Source : American Films Abroad. Hollywood's domination of the World's Movie Screens (Kerry Segrave; 1997)
There is a gap in data between 1913 and 1917, but...
Project X and More
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While this week's high-profile release *Project X* does little more than
revel in its own juvenile antics, the far less heralded (and unfortunately
titled)...
dimmed "star"
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Turner Classic Movies will screen George Cukor's terrific - but also
terrifically overrated - "A Star Is Born" at 5 p.m. on Oscar night, Sunday,
February ...
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