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Jan 26, 2012, 12:26 am
The Jaipur Literary festival, the biggest literary event in India, brought the ugliest facet of the Indian democracy out in the open. Salman Rushdie, one of the finest writers that India has ever produced, was not only forbidden from entering the country, but was also not allowed to meet people virt... Comment - Like
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Dec 24, 2011, 12:04 pm
Growing old can be associated with gains, and of course with losses. The passing years leave behind experiences and sometimes these congeal into a philosophical understanding of the process of living itself. But is such a comprehension sufficient to enable you to face the paring off of precious year... Comment - Like
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Dec 19, 2011, 2:15 am
A Cavansite is a rare, exotic blue mineral which is highly coveted by collectors. It is often found around Pune, India where Manjiri Prabhu’s thrilling novel ‘The Cavansite Conspiracy’ begins.
A very large Cavansite makes its home in the Crystal Museum of Rare Minerals in Pune and draws large... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2011, 1:41 pm
Clarice Aranxa is old and terminally ill with the motor neuron disease. She lives with her loyal servant Pauline in the Bougainvillea House at Baga beach in Goa, India. It seems that the days ahead will be uneventful, a slow passage to the biggest event of life – dying. But death turns out to be c... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2011, 12:37 pm
I am just back from attending a talk by Wilbur Smith and I now possess a signed copy of his latest novel ‘Those in peril’. How exciting is that!
Landmark, the fantastic book store chain, had arranged Wilbur Smith’s reading and signing event today at their Pune store. It was a full house wit... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2011, 10:38 am
When I started with ‘Pure Dead Magic’ I had no idea how good the book was going to be or the fact that it was the first of the ‘Pure Dead’ series written by Debi Gliori. I was down with fever over the weekend and feeling quite depressed about it. Then I found ‘Pure Dead Magic’ in my sist... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2011, 10:20 am
I had heard a lot of great things said about Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories and novels. When I turned the first page of ‘A Fair Maiden’ I realized why that was so. The narrative is lush and flows smoothly, the prose is very beautiful and the characters are intriguing.
The fair maiden of... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 1:08 pm
Fear comes in different forms. It takes the shape of the scared hollow of our mind, or rings shrilly into our ears. Fear weakens the cartilage of our knees and has a way of sliding into our heart riding on our breath. Stephen King knows all these fears and then some more. In the ‘From a Buick 8’... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 1:07 pm
Isaac Asimov is undoubtedly a master of the science fiction genre. The complexity and delicate intricacy that he can build into his worlds is simply terrific. I began reading Asimov with novels like ‘The big sun of mercury’, ‘Stars like dust’, and ‘The naked sun’ and I fell in love with ... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2011, 1:34 pm
What is a story? Does the veracity of a story determine its value, or is it the authenticity of the narrator that decides its usefulness? Or perhaps the truth of the story or its narrator is but immaterial, and its worth in the eyes of the listener is all that matters. How difficult it is to hold a ... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2011, 9:58 am
A large Bengal tiger escapes from its cage one morning in 19th century London and lands in front of young Jaffy Brown. The little boy, too young to know what a tiger is, simply cannot resist the temptation to touch the large cat’s soft nose. It is something akin to a miracle that Jaffy comes out o... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 1:43 pm
The penultimate step of this year’s Man Booker award cycle was completed today, when the shortlist of six books contending for the prize was announced. I am especially glad that Julian Barnes’ ‘The Sense of an Ending’ has made it into the final six. I had really liked this novel and was hopi... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2011, 3:06 pm
Memory – a reward for having lived a life, having lived it with others, having lived it through events of varying consequences – how trustworthy is it? Sometimes we remember only a smell or a posture and forget the face, or when we meet a person on the street we remember the face - even after ye... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2011, 12:58 pm
A rioter desperately inscribes this line on the wall while two masked super heroes close in on him. These are desperate times in a world weighed down by the shadow of a looming, nuclear third world war. Crime and destitution are on the rise. This is a time when the world needs super-heroes more than... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2011, 2:28 pm
‘The Tiger’s Wife’ is this year’s Orange prize winner book. It is a debut novel by a very talented young author, Téa Obreht. She is the youngest to win the Orange Prize at 25. It is also this knowledge which makes me marvel at the maturity and intricacy of this incredible piece of work, for... Comment - Like
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Aug 2, 2011, 2:23 pm
The 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist came out last week. Just like every other year, this year’s longlist has also surprised, elated and disappointed many :) Heavy discussions will now ensue on the books that have missed the list and on those who made it.
In India the Booker Prize has b... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2011, 9:36 am
James Stephens (1882 - 1950) is a remarkable Irish writer and poet well known for his retellings of the Irish fairy tales and myths. He has also written original novels, the most famous of which is ‘The crock of gold’ written in the style of a fairy tale, complete with magical beings and superna... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2011, 12:42 pm
Sometimes after many years have passed since a book was read and an impression was made, we realize that we no longer share the same ideas with our older self. I had first read Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ eight years back and it was the burnt patient’s tragic and tempestuous lov... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2010, 8:12 am
“मांजरा, आज काय काय गोष्टी घडल्यात! आपल्याला कामासाठी काही दिवस दूरच्या मोठ्ठ्या गावाला जावं लागणार आहे. आणि गंमत ... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2009, 11:28 am
सर्व दिशांना तलम शांतता पसरली होती, नेहमी असते तशीच. शांतता आणि अंधार, तोही नेहमीचाच. कधीमधी एखादा तुटता तारा य... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2009, 12:25 pm
आजचा दिवस काही बेबलॉश्कीसाठी बरा दिसत नव्हता. त्यानी सकाळी कॉफीत साखरेऐवजी मीठ घातलं, मग नीनाच्या ऐवजी भलत्याच क... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2009, 12:52 pm
त्या दिवशी संध्याकाळी बेबलॉश्की नीनाला भेटायला तिच्या घरी गेला होता. ती गेले काही दिवस गावाला गेलेली असल्यामुळे ... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2009, 2:38 pm
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उडती तबकडी कशीबशी हेलपांडत भिंतीच्या मागच्या बाजूला उतरली. लगेचच तबकडीचं दार उघडलं आणि बारनू बाहेर पडला. उतरता... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2009, 12:39 pm
दुपारच्या वेळी जेव्हा सर्व मांजरं आपापल्या घरात राहणं पसंत करतात त्यावेळी काळ्या-हिरव्या मांजराला तसंच केल्याम... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2009, 12:47 pm
कुठल्याशा विचारात गढून गेलेला बेबलॉश्की आकाशातल्या अंधाराच्या पार नजर लावून बसला होता. गच्चीत आडवा पडला असल्या... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2009, 2:35 pm
अनेक लोकांनी दार वाजवलं त्या दिवशी! काहींना कसल्या कसल्या बिलांचे पैसे हवे होते तर काहींना काय काय गोष्टी बेबलॉश... Comment - Like
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Feb 24, 2009, 11:08 am
शनिवारची सकाळ होती आणि बेबलॉश्की मुळीच अंघोळीला जायला तयार नव्ह्ता. मांजराने मात्र उठल्या उठल्या अंग चाटून टाकल... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2008, 1:13 pm
I have shifted my blog to a new location.
Please go to http://kachakavadya.wordpress.com/ for reading future posts of काचा-कवड्या.
My sincere thanks to you all!
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Aug 3, 2008, 9:20 am
बेबलॉश्की दुपारचा फळं खात बसला होता, त्याच्या आवडीचं सिताफळ आणि ज्याच्या विषयी त्याचं फार काही मत नव्हतं असं सफर... Comment - Like
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Jul 9, 2008, 11:53 am
काळं-हिरवं मांजर चिडचिडलं होतं. आख्खं घर पालथं घालून झालं तरी त्याला त्याचं झोपायचं खोकं सापडलं नव्हतं आणि त्यात ... Comment - Like
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May 25, 2008, 12:07 pm
ती आर्ट गॅलरी एक मस्त गोल प्रकरण होती. तिच्या मध्यावर एक गोल जिना होता, त्या चार मजल्यांना जोडणारा. प्रत्येक मजल्य... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2008, 2:41 pm
बेबलॉश्कीच्या कपड्यांचा पसारा भलतीकडेच पसरला होता तर काळ्या-हिरव्या मांजराचं झोपण्याचं खोकं उलटीकडे पडलं होतं.... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2008, 12:18 pm
कित्येक दिवस खूप साहित्यिकांच्या खूप थोर कलाकृती वाचून झाल्यावर बेबलॉश्कीला वाटले आपणही काहीतरी लिहावे. त्याने... Comment - Like
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Mar 2, 2008, 10:40 am
त्या एका सुरेख दिवशी, काळ्या हिरव्या मांजराला खूपच कंटाळा आला होता. काय कारण होतं कोणास ठाऊक पण त्याला नेहमीसारखं ... Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2008, 3:29 am
सकाळचे साडेआठ वाजले होते आणि छोटा पिकू गाढ झोपेत होता. पिकूची आई त्याला उठवायला आली "पिकू उठ रे बाळा, सूर्य केवढा वर... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2008, 12:26 pm
त्या दिवशी झोपेतून अर्धवट जाग येत असतानाच बेबलॉश्कीच्या मनात वाचनाची आवड निर्माण झाली. पूर्ण जाग येईपर्यंत ती बर... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2008, 11:44 am
त्या दिवशी खूप जोराचा पाऊस पडत होता. अगदी ढगांच्या गडगडाटा - विजांच्या कडकडाटासह. मग दिवेही गेले आणि बेबलॉश्कीला ख... Comment - Like
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