Asha – A beautiful life lived with vision, grit, and dignity.
As Asha’s illness entered a terminal stage in the last few weeks, I was reminded of the opening lines of[…]
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Part three of the essay on Evolution – “Origins” the book, its style, and impact.
On a cold and blistery day in December of 2001, Julie Geissler, a resident of New Hampshire, walked hesitatingly and[…]
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Hallie Rubenhold’s book “The five” – a brilliant resurrection of the lives, dignity, and social milieu of the five women who were victims of Jack, the ripper ( 1888)
Anytime we watch a slasher movie, we are perpetuating the legend of Jack the Ripper, the first widely acknowledged serial[…]
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Part two of the essay on Evolution – Darwin’s journey – the man, his endeavor, and the book that changed the understanding of life)
( Note to the reader: I published part one of this essay a couple of weeks ago. Both these parts[…]
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Samanth Subramanian’s beautifully crafted book ” This divided Island” on the thirty years of civil war in Srilanka, its origins, and the aftermath.
We bought our first television set in Madurai, back in the early eighties. It was a Sony Trinitron model –[…]
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An essay in three parts on the evolution of species, Darwin’s scientific journey, and the fascinating story behind the fifteen-year hiatus between Darwin’s observation of the principle and the publication of the “Origins”.
( I had to break this essay into three parts so that it doesn’t burden the reader too much. I[…]
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The greatness of Rajaraja Cholan a.k.a Ponniyin selvan, Kalki’s epic novel, and Maniratnam’s film adaptation.
The reconstruction of history is often riddled with epiphanies – sudden discoveries of documents or artifacts in unexpected places, fresh[…]
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Babette’s feast – a book, a movie, a cultural archetype, and a deep meditation on the therapeutic significance of the culinary art
A few months ago – in April, if memory serves me right – I came across an announcement on Google[…]
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The genius of Hilary Mantel ( 1952 – 2022)
I would have to consider myself fortunate that I decided to pick up Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf hall” from the library[…]
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Roger Federer – A magical sportsman hangs his boots.
Roger Federer would have never become a Tennis player. It wasn’t as if he was a prodigy, like Tiger Woods,[…]
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