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No rush, Monsieur
[if you’re wondering how our good reader ended up here croissants in hand, books still unread, the backstory is available in two equally unhelpful installments: part 1 and part 2.] “Bonjour, monsieur. Voilà votre café crème… et votre Hemingway starter kit.” (“Good morning, sir. Here is your coffee… and your basic tourist intellectual package.”) The…
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The Atlas of Ghee and Gridlock
Optional, but for those who like their comedies with a prologue, please see Part 1: A Summer of Good Intentions and Bad Attention. It began, as all midlife revelations do in the year 2025, with a YouTube thumbnail: a woman in Santorini holding The Bell Jar like a wine glass, promising that travel had healed…
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Five books to re-read this winter
For never-resting time leads summer on, to hideous winter, and confounds him there – Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5 Although Shakespeare metaphorically refers to a youth’s prime and old age as summer and winter, he kept winter where it belongs. And this winter when ‘Bomb Cyclone‘ attacks, there must be enough reading material to beat the cold. Here…
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The real last minute gift
It’s last minute, right? At this point, its a race between Santa and Amazon Prime. You, like me, is yet to buy anything worthwhile for your friend/colleague with whom you are partying on the Christmas day. And you don’t want to look absurd with just that bottle of D’Asti from Trader Joe’s. Well, here’s an…
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Marghazhi Mani Utsavam
Back in 2013 when Kadal released and was kalasified across the web, I was a mad about those harsh reviews for a truly different Mani Ratnam film. During the Christmas break of that year, I revisited all of Mani’s 23 movies up to that point. In that process, I discovered Guru – a movie that…
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