The Written Word

As I don't have time nowadays to do justice to one leave alone two blogs, all further rambling will take place only at despoki.blogspot....

I read part of Arundhati Roy's new book ( a collection of interviews from the past few years, some of which I've already read) in De...

From a week at Delhi (on work): Delhi is endlessly fascinating. How did it manage to avoid the architectural dead-end that all other Indian ...

I picked up Mulk Raj Anand's "Coolie" and read the last chapter (I don't remember if when I had earlier read it, I had got...

This movie is such a pleasure to watch, a real sensual experience. It is amazing -- there is a particular feel to the movie that pervades. ...

Shobha De is like a chalk squeaking on a blackboard. A long time back she called (pejoratively) Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy the "Nar...

As expected, this has become a mess and time sink: May 9th: I sent them the dispute resolution form. By Speedpost -- because they did not ha...

Bush gives up golf in solidarity to soldiers : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq The problem is, he is talking ab...

Was working on something on our balcony at dusk and mosquitoes were torturing me. Mosquitoes are definitive proof that either God does not ...

I didn't vote, but co-incidentally exchanged a couple of mails with Vivek Menon, a foreign-returnee who stood for election as an indepen...