Hindustan Times
In the last couple of months, I hadn’t read anything I particularly wanted to talk about. What I read wasn’t bad, but the books didn’t make me want to text people to say, ‘I have a great book for you’ or to write about in this blog. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Filed under books · Tagged 1857: The Real Story of the Great Uprising, A History of Reading, Apradhini - Women Without Men, C Rajagopalachari, Diddi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, hindustan times, Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart, Konkani theatrical troupe, kushalrani gulab, Majha Pravas, Malavika Karlekar, news, Remembered Childhood, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar
(Still pretty much under the influence of A History of Reading)
There’s a sort of ritual to the way I go book shopping when I go to Fact & Fiction. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Filed under books · Tagged A History of Reading, book shopping, Delhi, Eastern Europe, Expletive Deleted, Frank Smythe, George Orwell, Kushal Rani Gulab, Raymond Chandler, Robin Shelton, The Incomplete Angler, The New Yorker, The Paris Review
*Does this work for you, Sudeshna?
“In the tenth century… the Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, in order not to part with his collection of 117,000 volumes when travelling, had them carried by a caravan of four hundred camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.”
– A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Filed under books · Tagged A History of Reading, Abdul Kassem Ismael, Ajit Vikram Singh, Alberto Manguel, books, Fact and Fiction, Grand Vizier of Persia, Greece, kushalrani gulab, reading, travelling
