Confessions In Reading
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What reading Farrukh Dhondy’s ‘Poona Company’ means today to a Pune resident
‘I saw names and places I had grown up amidst etched in inexorable print, and suddenly, they became important.’
Neha Mehrotra
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Why sadness and reading Sylvia Plath go hand in hand for some millennials
Does it have something to do with the process of growing out of teenage girlhood and into respectable adulthood?
Yamini Krishnan
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‘How I inherited scholar Meera Kosambi’s books through several degrees of separation and intimacy’
A college teacher finds himself with a collection of books that belonged to someone he only knew slightly.
Kedar A Kulkarni
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The unbearable wait for Milan Kundera to get a Nobel Prize, knowing it may never happen
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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How I learnt to live and love in libraries
‘At every stage in my life there is a library I am acutely obsessed with.‘
Devapriya Roy
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