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Blue Jasmine
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How mainstream media is killing me?

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson It really saddens me how news is reported these days in India especially when i...

22 h ago

Random.

So finally, I am finished with my exams and can now breathe free. It wasnt that they were particularly hard, I am just not used to writing examinations and tests anymore. If there is one thing that I...

3 days ago

Beautiful Words

18 may 12

Things I love - The Month of May

On May Morning - John MiltonNow the bright morning Star, Days harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pal...

15 may 12

Humberts Poems - Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, Chapter 25 Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.Age: five thousand three hundred days.Profession: none, or "starlet"Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?Why are you h...

13 may 12

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind

Blurb on the back: In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift - an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors ...

11 may 12

Blackwells Bookshop

Blackwells Bookshop51 Broad Street Oxford, OX1 3, United Kingdom 01865 792792This bookshop is legendary. If you ever get a chance to visit Oxford in your life, please do visit this shop; its history ...

09 may 12

Day Trip to Oxford

After a really long time I managed to get on a flight which gave me a 24-hour layover in London but the weather there was playing party-pooper so I decided to get away from the city as soon as possib...

06 may 12

"The Shining" or "Why I prefer watching Asian horror movies"

London turned out to be a damp squib. It rained all day yesterday; piercing, soul chilling rain. Somebody please remind the weather gods that its May already, high time to send poor London some summe...

01 may 12

Essays of a fangirl

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. - Charles LambI am beginning to believe that Charles Lamb and I are soul mates. Not soul mates per say but someone whose life mirrors mine, if one ignores the gend...

25 apr 12

Saturday.

Is there a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than by watching Allo Allo back-to-back, drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee and reading Stephen Hawking? I guess there must be but none is more ...

21 apr 12

A life after Cameras

It seems like I have been slacking since the beginning of the month but I am happy to say that it has been a conscious decision. I really think that I deserved a break from this blog and the blog fro...

19 apr 12

Beautiful Words

18 apr 12

My week in Pictures

15 apr 12

Free Books!!!

I came back home today and these were waiting for me!These were won in a goodreads giveaway contest, actually the giveaway was for only one book but the nice people at Sandra Browns sent me two. I am...

28 mar 12

Sonnets to Orpheus

“You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathingthat is more than your own.Let it brush your cheeksas it divides and rejoins beside you.Blessed ones, whole ones,you where the heart begins:You are th...

25 mar 12

Book Loot!

I havent been reading as much as Id like to but that seems to be the one perennial complaint of all readers. So many books, so little time. But I try, I try really hard and I think in the coming days...

24 mar 12

Beautiful Words

23 mar 12

Is this what they call "Spring" in this town?

It’s the kind of the day straight out of a Fitzgerald novel. New York has such bipolar weather these days! One minute you are freezing, trying to put on your gloves and hat and the very next minute y...

22 mar 12

Koi

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. - Confucius

18 mar 12

Beautiful Words

16 mar 12

The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

Blurb on the back: Fathered, through circuitous circumstances, by an Englishman, Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her h...

16 mar 12

More Pictures from Narita, Japan

15 mar 12

Pilot Problem Solving Flowchart

13 mar 12

Narita-san Temple

From Wikipedia:Narita-san (成田山 Narita mountain) Shinshō-ji (新勝寺 New victory temple) is a Shingon Buddhist temple located in central Narita, Chiba, Japan. It was founded in 940 by Kanchō Daisōjō, a di...

12 mar 12

The First Japanese Bath

So this trip to Narita, Japan has been totally blissful. Usually when I get three days in Tokyo I travel around the country and go to places I haven’t seen before. But this time I took it easy and st...

12 mar 12

Wild Nights

Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile – the winds –To a heart in port –Done with the compass –Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden –Ah, the sea!Might I moor –...

11 mar 12

Beautiful Words

10 mar 12

The First Sakura

09 mar 12

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman - Louis de Bernières

Blurb on the back: While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed ...

08 mar 12

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