Somewhere last year, I read this: About The Three Golden Keys by Peter Sís: Through the images and texts, the reader follows a trail of m...

James Joyce's Ulysses: One Page Every Day In honor of the 100th anniversary of the date that Ulysses is set, this lauded book is bei...

It's depressing, but it moved me -- and it is one of the reasons for the recent electoral upsets in India and in Andhra Pradesh in parti...

Two men came to the gate, offering to clean our coconut trees -- Rs. 20 each for three trees. Chinnaraj has a long pole with a hook on the ...

I made my first effort at book-binding yesterday: a small Coptic-bound book, 5 signatures of 5 sheets each, the size of an A4 sheet folded...

Our friend who produces TV serials came yesterday evening to play badminton. He has a new serial debuting today (Monday), so he's been ...

Author Hari Kunzru used to have no time for the kitsch, trashy movies of his father's homeland. Then he realised that behind the romanc...

I recently posted a comic piece by the Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Insha. And I have also mentioned the website of Matteela , a group of young P...

I am trying something different here: I have uploaded the mp3 of my most favourite ghazal , Dekh to Dil, written by Mir Taki Mir (1722-1808...

In casting about for something to post, my hand fell on this little book: Urdu: The Final Book , by Ibn-e Insha, translated by David Matth...

Two recent Google referrals (and there have been others): man putting ice cubes into churidar of woman churidar sex Churidars look like th...

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Friday : Power failure for three hours. Turned on the generator - it's big, 32kva, enough to run the whole house. After half an hour ...

Andrew Eason: Artists Books Andrew Eason: Treasures From Bristol Central Library The Book Art of Richard Minsky The Center for...

I’ve been taking baby steps in sketching and watercolours. Yesterday I decided to copy a photograph Ramesh had taken of our dog. He was a ...

After my hopeful posting of poems for the rainy season it did not rain again. Then yesterday evening we were playing badminton, when grey ...

From today's Poetry Daily - by Ravi Shankar, from his book Instrumentality : Return to Mumbai Bombay no longer, the island Circ...

Resplendant Reflections/Roving Revistas , formerly of New York, has been writing fascinating stuff about life in Istanbul. Glimpses of a ve...

When did American politicians stop saying "Americans," and start saying "the American people"?

Thanks to Prentiss Riddle , a link to a site of luscious photographs of Asia: Asia Grace by Kevin Kelly . Riddle's comment on the site...