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JABBERwocky: Published Ravings
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A poem in Quay. Three poems in Muse India. Short story in Soundzine. Two poems in Muse India. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained." – Mark Twain. View my complete profile. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun. Do not go gentle into that good night.
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JABBERwocky: The Will to Die
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Sunday, October 13, 2013. The Will to Die. I just googled "suicide". At the top of the page was a helpline number that simply said "Need help? In India, call XXXXXX". A desperate hand from cyberspace attempting to stop the desperate reader somewhere, somehow. Of course, the democratic search engine also lends an equally helping hand even before you finish typing the word, offering "suicide methods" as one of your search possibilities. The Hindoo: The Only Risk'). October 14, 2013 at 6:47 PM. This work is...
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JABBERwocky: Amma
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. This is not the first time I have felt this sudden emotion in the years after she passed away, but it caught me unawares today after the longest gap in time. I am both shaken and gladdened by the realization that time hasn't really obliterated a dear one. If pain persists, however transfigured, there must be some permanence in life and in love. Here are two poems I wrote in the memory of my grandmother, with the dates on which I first posted them on my blog:. I failed to glimpse.
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JABBERwocky: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A most dangerous habit. So, what do you have to say about those who read books? Those who, that is, love reading them, are always found with them and have gathered a reputation as 'voracious readers'? To be found with a book suddenly becomes the opposite of cooking, wiving (no, that's not the right word, is? For the most part, however, women would like to keep their intellect and their habits intact, methinks. Women who read, like women who think and women who study and women...
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JABBERwocky: A most dangerous habit
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A most dangerous habit. So, what do you have to say about those who read books? Those who, that is, love reading them, are always found with them and have gathered a reputation as 'voracious readers'? To be found with a book suddenly becomes the opposite of cooking, wiving (no, that's not the right word, is? For the most part, however, women would like to keep their intellect and their habits intact, methinks. Women who read, like women who think and women who study and women...
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JABBERwocky: Flood of Fire: Impressions
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Flood of Fire: Impressions. This morning I finished reading the third of Amitav Ghosh's. But let me leave that bit for a little later. The most appreciable and outstanding part of this mammoth project - for that is what the Ibis. Of personally familiar places and occurrences to the. Trilogy, whose task is ambitious to say the least. Coming to Flood of Fire. It is the character of Neel that surprised me. Each of Ghosh’s novels has this intellectual observer-chronicler wh...This wo...
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JABBERwocky: January 2015
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Thursday, January 8, 2015. I have been reading The Economic Times' weekly supplement, 'Wealth', for almost a year. There is no doubt that it has both increased my confidence in dealing with money and sparked off a lot of interest in the complex, dynamic system that we call the financial market. The space I await most eagerly in the paper is Uma Shashikant. Is their page.) That makes me very proud as a woman and very hopeful about women building better lives for themselves and the society at large....
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JABBERwocky: June 2013
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The first lesson again. Today, I learnt Swati Tirunal’s oft-heard kriti in Mayamalavagoula, ‘Deva deva kalayaami’. The familiar intonations of the beginner’s raga completed yet another cycle in learning music. “Anda ga-va-attara ashakanam” said my teacher reminding me that the Ga in Mayamalavagowla contained glimpses of three notes. Another of the realisations that form the everyday in learning and relearning music. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Good men,...
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JABBERwocky: The tide country, at last!
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Monday, December 31, 2012. The tide country, at last! 8220;The islands are the trailing threads of India’s fabric, the ragged fringe of her sari, the ãchol. Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide. This is where it began. For eight long years, since the first time I read these paragraphs, the tide country has been a constant, haunting image in my mind: one of my most desperate dreams, so to speak. When Vidya and I booked a tour package to the Sundarbans via India Beacons Sojourn. Granted us our best holiday to date.
