December 2010
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Damn, I want to travel.
Pretty self-explanatory.
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GMM! Part doan: the onion strike or why Indian...
I have been in Mumbai for all of 2.5 days and I’ve already been asked (by 5 different people no less) when I’m getting married. No, I’m not engaged; I don’t even have a boyfriend much less the inclination to “settle down”. My replies to such queries involves smiling politely and waiting for the subject to change (luckily for me Indian people love to gab more...
“‘There are all sorts of things that love can’t conquer,’ he...”
– Kathleen Tessaro, The Flirt
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Puzzle pieces, Darwin's minions, and an Aston...
Disclaimer: I wrote the following when I was dehydrated, dizzy, nauseous, and at an altitude of 35000 feet (for those of you wondering if I was on some crazyawesome mountain hike or whatnot, I’m sorry to disappoint you. I was on a plane. Not so exciting, I know. But hey! it’s something different). My sleep schedule was all out of whack, I had no clue which landmass I was currently...
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GMM! Part eik: pigeons, jet-lag, and the sunrise
It is uncharacteristically cold in Mumbai.
No palm trees greeted me at the airport with their droopy leaves, no sweltering December heat sent shivers down my neck, not a single crow cried out in its usual piercing shrill.
At home now, shaking off a different type of shiver, the one that comes hand-in-hand with a sense of something new, something out-of-the-ordinary about to happen, I move...
“A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and...”
– Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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beast, g33K sP3aK, and the learning curve
Blah.
I am so over finals are over. This last week has been…trying, to say the least. I felt like I was on top of my shit until half way through the semester and then everything just went downhill after that. I don’t even feel like I deserve a vacation after my lame attempts at “studying” and the dismal effort I put into my papers and projects. Zzarrghh. Yep, just made...
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Libraries, potato peels, and telegrams
Hello, hello!
As some of you will be able to tell without my saying so, this is one of my first attempts at blogging, so please have some patience :) I’m still working on getting this thingy up-and-running, so…here goes! In theory this blog is supposed to be an assemblage of book reviews, news about my favorite authors, and my own thoughts about reading and writing. Hopefully that...
