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A Case for Libraries

First printed in The Asian Age: 29 July, 2018 A case for libraries Ahalya Naidu Momaya The shutter rattles and rolls upwards, I shoulder the glass door open and the bell tinkles.…
McCall Smith’s poems are maps to the soul

“…more precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I…
Obelix and papad

Special dinner time treat!!! How Obelix fell into the magic potion when he was a little boy (and saved me from boredom)! Who needs TV! (Fried papad because we don’t eat boar).
Terry Pratchett

Written many years ago, for a lovely magazine called Byword (click on the word to read the article on their page, and discover amazing essays in it’s new avatar as The Punch…
The long tradition of librarianship

Warm fuzzy feeling filling up the heart! A friend visiting the British Library got ‘Librarian’ pins for us. Overwhelmed. Thank you Jaydev Nansey for all your love. Being a librarian, is more…
Flashback: Notes from JLF

January 27, 2018 Rabih Alameddine is a very important writer for me. Which is why listening to him argue against the importance of novels is very interesting. I loved this: “novels are…
Reading Alice in Bhuleshwar

“How do we see the city?…The very streets we walk, and the buildings we see…are patterns of change and history… the neighbourhood offers a kind of visual chaos, incomprehensible to the unexercised eye,…
From her heart

Meet my friend, Saee. I’ve known her for about 20 years now (I know, I know, she looks extremely young and she’s just gotten wittier and better at everything she does). Which…
Curatorial services

“I must emphasize, no matter how obvious it sounds, that good curating depends upon a bottomless passion and curiosity for looking and questioning; and the desire to communicate that excitement.” – Donna…
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