Hindustan Times
March 5, Saturday, is World Book Day.
Now, on principle, I abhor celebrating all those designated days that our calendars are so full with nowadays Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Father’s Day, fiction, hindustan times, marketing codswallop, Mother’s Day, news, non-fiction, Valentine’s Day, World Book Day
Just before Valentine’s Day, the Guardian asked the poet John Stammers for his top ten favourite love poems.
Stammers, who has edited the Picador Book of Love Poems, made an interesting selection.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Edward Lear, Guardian, John Stammers, love, love poems, Pablo Neruda, Picador Book of Love Poems, TS Eliot, Valentine's Day, WB Yeats
I have broken a rib and have taken up residence in the land of pain and ill health. Here, the rules of existence are very different. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Alphonse Daudet, Darkness Visible, existence, hindustan times, ill health, In the Land of Pain, Joan Didion, Julian Barnes, land of pain, National Book Award, news, The Year of Magical Thinking, William Styron
