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Pervez Musharraf . PHOTO: APRomanticising mortality
My spirit is too weak;
mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined
pinnacle and steep
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Immortal, yet intensely human: Time for change in Sita’s image
This search for Sita began near the botanical gardens in Peradiniya, Sri Lanka, on a day redolent with the breeze of spring. As I absorbed the lush landscape, the swaying palms, the feather-leaved bamboo, the Java willows, I thought I saw her, sitting on a rock, perhaps an apparition from a Raja Ravi Varma painting.Full story![]()
Knotty affair: Bridging the North-South divide
Chetan Bhagat, IITian and IIM alumnus, has come up with yet another blockbuster in his 2 States: The Story of My Marriage. His two in-between books after the 2004 debut novel Five-Point Someone may Full story![]()
Other Head lines
- Zeroing in on Pak’s utterly precarious current state
- ‘I do not believe India is a particularly spiritual place’
- Indo-swiss tales in graphic detail
- A feast of the flesh
- WATCHING TURKEY
- Gunpowder plot on slow fuse
- Partition: A painful inheritance of loss
- ‘It’s time for carefully designed dictionaries’
- The colours of desire
- Spiritual vibrations of the mind
- The master of marquee
- General in his labyrinth
- Fire within: A journey in search of the self
- Lens and sensibility
- Birth of the capital city
- Myriad musings
- Unveiling social evils
- A snapshot view of cricket
- Songs for All Seasons
- Pakistan up close
- Making business sense
- Homing in on holmes: A baker st irregular
- Red square of china
- Jaishree shifts focus of her fiction
- Right stroke: little master stands tall
- Call of the soil
- ‘The story of Arzee is everybody’s story’
- Rhyme & reason
- Eye on Indian, global security scenarios
- The song of life Tagore came to sing
- A view of the valley
- A hugely evocative story about a girl’s childhood
- Found in translation
- The blueprint of a joyous, creative life
- No child’s play, this!
- Fantastic five: A trip down historical lane
- ‘Short stories are like grains of sand’
- Underbelly of a life we choose not to see
- ‘I treasure My Music, My Life the most’
- Ruffled Rhythms
- An inquiry into the decline of companies (1)
- RUFFLED RHYTHMS
- An inquiry into the decline of companies
- Out of Africa
- Between chicklit and serious fiction
- Tell-tale yarns of a poet-raconteur
- The bauls of Bengal
- Zooming in on women behind bars
- Mountains and men
- At 75, I’m still active, energetic: Bond
- With families like these...
- The extraordinariness of being ordinary
- Down melody lane: The story of a singer
- Past forward
- ‘Writing fiction is murderous’
- Zooming in on classic cinema
- Think China and India, not China or India
- Kerala culling: Decoding the Malayali psyche
- A technicolor tribute to india’s tallest star
- An Unsentimental Gaze
- ‘Chowringhee my favourite till date’
- A personalised study of Muslim identity
- Music strikes a chord with commerce
- A general makes his stand
- A clever jigsaw puzzle, minus plain fast action
- ‘I don’t belong to writers’ league’
- Semblance of the good and the evil
- Shadow lines
- The Indian connection
- Licence to thrill

