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Our Bookish Worlds by Aakriti jain

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO READ ANITA DESAI'S ROSARITA AS A LATE 20-SOMETHING

What would you find if you went to all the places your mother did? Would it be old friends, forsaken lovers or yourself?

Travel Tales
Find all that you need to know when you travel beyond your home

Mumbai, Before Sunrise: Flora Fountain in the centre of Art Deco Gothic Buildings

Mumbai, Before Sunrise: Flora Fountain in the centre of Art Deco Gothic Buildings

Mumbai, Before Sunrise: How our single-minded devotion to eat fresh bun maska at Yazdani led us to an uncanny space in Mumbai

In my third consecutive trip to Mumbai, we rediscover the gothic architecture of Colaba in a strange light, keep loose change to try Mawa cake at Mumbai's oldest Parsi Bakery and listen closely to the human of the Elephanta Caves.

Apr 174 min read

In The Alchemist Paulo Coelho constructs our homes and dreams beyond our content worlds

In The Alchemist Paulo Coelho constructs our homes and dreams beyond our content worlds

In The Alchemist Paulo Coelho constructs our homes and dreams beyond our content worlds

“He had not perceived them because he had become accustomed to them.” The reality that we accept gives us only that many said and laid...

Feb 28, 20214 min read

Cities and Nostalgia
Stories about all that is left behind when we leave the border

Salman Rushdie's Quichotte is all about finding our roots with Google Maps and Nationality

Feb 1, 2021

Salman Rushdie's Quichotte is all about finding our roots with Google Maps and Nationality

Salman Rushdie's Quichotte is all about finding our roots with Google Maps and Nationality

Dipping In and Out of 1947 Partition History in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man

Dec 27, 2020

Dipping In and Out of 1947 Partition History in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man

Dipping In and Out of 1947 Partition History in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man

What makes a city: M. Mukundan reports our Delhi’s Soliloquy

Nov 29, 2020

What makes a city: M. Mukundan reports our Delhi’s Soliloquy

What makes a city: M. Mukundan reports our Delhi’s Soliloquy

Encore
The in-case-you-missed section

How to write in a Room of Our Own: Woolf’s guide to writing next to a Glass Window

How to write in a Room of Our Own: Woolf’s guide to writing next to a Glass Window

How to write in a Room of Our Own: Woolf’s guide to writing next to a Glass Window

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Place and Space
A section about the Inspiration and the Art of Writing

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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