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(Image Credit: Crispina Kemp) In an alternate universe, Don Quixote, oblivious to the pleadings of Sancho Panza would have made a full tilt…
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: Sifynews.com) It is on many counts and at multiple levels a travesty to compare a silver screen adaptation with the literature…
(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…
(Image Credit: http://www.bookdepository.com) Beginning 1966 and extending well into the early 1980s, two veritable titans nursing tangentially different ideologies in the domain of…
(Photo by Xavier von Erlach on Unsplash) Is it imminent lethargy that makes us let our guards down? Or is it an innocent trust that makes…