It’s no secret, my grand love affair with books. I’ve also written about my obsession with bookstores, big and small. Flipkart has replaced Landmark in my affections because it’s so much more convenient. But I do miss the adventuring that went with real world, poking-through-shelves book browsing. A bookworm needs…
For best results, paste on electric box. This month’s blockbuster promises to be quite electrifying: Current Maare Goriya
Let us be playersLet us be opponentsLet us be partners-in a dance, in a game Let us be loversLet us be othersLet us be close, only in name Let us be foesLet us be strangersLet us be okay with all things not being the same Let us be all theseLet…
I razzed up an antique tussar silk saree with a different drape and an unusual accessory. This was for a friend’s wedding.
I first heard about S.E.C.R.E.T. in online forums discussing (and bashing) 50 Shades of Grey. 50 Shades, of course, had achieved cult status, a sort of adult Twilight for our times. Its terrible nature notwithstanding, 50 Shades may have brought the genre of sexual writing into popular and acceptable bookshelves….
Yesterday I was denied entry into a building. I was there to attend a business event, peopled by serious professionals. The reason for my not being allowed admission is that I was wearing a dress. I think the details of the dress are not important but anticipating debate on that,…
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertMy rating: 2 of 5 stars The original is in French and I read the English translation by Alan Russell (Penguin Popular Classics). I’m rather a novice with reading the classics so the writing seemed rather excessively descriptive and flowery to me. Perhaps with some books,…
You never quite realize how much you live under fear until you break free of it. I am not scared of anybody.
Fascination – a poem.
I wrote earlier about running into issues with Quora because my username did not conform to their policies. This is the same thing that happened with Google Plus. In that case as with this one, I changed my name to ‘Ramya Ideasmith’ and it still didn’t get accepted. I find…
