(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…
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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…
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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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(Inage Credit: http://www.amazon.com) At the core of Niven Govinden’ s “Diary of a Film”, is another book. William Maxwell’s “The Folded Leaf”, influences,…
(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.in) The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic stood every bit of received wisdom relating to the concept…
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(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) Books can be like Russian Matryoshka dolls. Similar to these nested wooden dolls where one primary doll has many smaller…
(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) An illustrated polemic, “Accidental Czar” takes pictorial potshots at the egregious President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. While the heavy lifting…
(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) How often do we pause to reflect about the benefits and disadvantages of a roundabout, other than when honking, hollering…
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) At the outset, I wish to gratefully acknowledge Tim Herfkens for leading me onto this wonderful book and an even…
Laird Hunt’s formidable protagonist Zorrie Underwood of Clinton County is not so much a quintessential woman of the soil as she is the…