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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction – Christopher Butler

by Venky August 8, 2022 0 comment

Rage against the Last Man

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Diary of a Film – Niven Govinden

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Afternoons and More – Jaya Pillai

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Love’s Labour Lost

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Writing – Marguerite Duras

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Bookend - Where reading meets review

Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction – Christopher Butler

August 8, 2022

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Christopher Butler, once described postmodernism  and its advocates as a “loosely constituted and…

by Venky August 8, 2022

Diary of a Film – Niven Govinden

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by Venky August 3, 2022

Afternoons and More – Jaya Pillai

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by Venky July 29, 2022

Writing – Marguerite Duras

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by Venky July 23, 2022

Accidental Czar: The Life & Lies of Vladimir Putin – Andrew S. Weiss & Brian “Box” Brown

July 18, 2022
by Venky July 18, 2022

Tales of Imagination

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Call of the Wild

July 24, 2020
by Venky July 24, 2020

Pipelines and Pipe Dreams

March 2, 2020
by Venky March 2, 2020

COVID-19 & a world gone nuts

February 26, 2020
by Venky February 26, 2020

Big Pharma – Thy Name is Profit

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by Venky February 8, 2020

Freewheeling

READING THROUGH 2021

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As the world floundered from one crisis to the next, 2021 made 2020 look like a beatific year in Paradise. Events ranging from…

by Venky December 28, 2021

Neeraj Chopra – The Yudhishthira of Tokyo 2020

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The closing lines of Great Gatsby and the genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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by Venky July 27, 2021

The Magician of Melodies

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by Venky July 10, 2021

A Hope called Tanya Coleridge by George Michael

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by Venky April 14, 2021

Keats Corner

Rage against the Last Man

August 6, 2022

(Photo by Shawn Ho on Unsplash) Interpreting, Intuiting and Invoking motives Goading, encouraging and perpetuating sibilance Glint of deadly steel as knives are sharpened Deadlier anger…

by Venky August 6, 2022

Love’s Labour Lost

July 24, 2022
by Venky July 24, 2022

Utopian Illusions

July 3, 2022
by Venky July 3, 2022

Dunces Assemble

June 27, 2022
by Venky June 27, 2022

Vista

June 18, 2022
by Venky June 18, 2022

Straight Drive

Shane Keith Warne – Cricket’s Last Icon & Iconoclast

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It’s not often that a single individual succeeds in donning both the mantle of an icon and the garb of an iconoclast, especially…

by Venky March 5, 2022

Lords – A Plot Gone Awry

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The Irreverence of Rishabh Pant

March 5, 2021
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Death by Aesthetics: The Rohit Sharma Way

February 13, 2021
by Venky February 13, 2021

The Philosophy of Interludes

January 20, 2021
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SilverScreen

‘Gehriayan’ – An Unappetising fare for the hungry

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(Image Credit: http://www.Amazonprime.com) One of the greatest champions the world of tennis has ever seen, Pete Sampras always wore a look that was…

by Venky February 13, 2022

Mimi – Medium is the Message

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Haseen Dilruba: A Poor Man’s Roald Dahl Gone Awry

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Pagglait

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by Venky April 11, 2021

Operation Varsity Blues – Chris Smith

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by Venky March 23, 2021

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