Reviews

March 28, 2011

Gods! Mountains!

A narrow meandering road disappearing around a curve somewhere at the foot of a mountain woollen with trees and shrouded in the orange glow of a fiery evening sun hanging three feet from the mountain, coming level with its summit but losing altitude fast. A late evening last bus, that jars your teeth loose at [...]

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January 4, 2011

Calcutta – The Wikipedia

I arrived out of the plane into an airport complex – the size of a child’s handkerchief creased into a neat quarter-fold – with enough people and their grandmothers to populate two large football stadiums waiting around a luggage belt that would make a child’s play train set seem like the trans-Siberian. This, I mistakenly thought, [...]

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June 12, 2010

The new kid on the block

The world we live in, and do everything else in, seems to have an obsession with originals. Collectors covet guns that have been crafted to carry out King Herod’s massacres and go mad searching for cars that have been made to take his grandmother shopping. As if this obsession is not enough, there is another [...]

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April 29, 2010

The Book Thief (Review?)

Imagine this: A sky painted a dull faded out shade of gray so weak it was ran into black. Imagine the sky lazily regurgitating snowflake after snowflake, as if the will of the clouds were burnt and the flakes were the last of the ashes. Imagine a weather so cold that it will chill your [...]

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March 24, 2010

Of Keira Knightley and Kim Kardashian

There is always a certain satisfaction that is derived from watching a things of beauty. While there is a general agreement about needing more beauty around, there is spectacularly none about the beauties being big. Unless of course when the talk is about automobiles. Since this a an automobile review, the chances are, there is [...]

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