Confessions In Reading

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
· Aug 08, 2021 · 01:52 pm
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
· Jul 05, 2020 · 08:30 am
‘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
· Oct 20, 2019 · 07:30 am

The unbearable wait for Milan Kundera to get a Nobel Prize, knowing it may never happen

Now 90 years old, Milan Kundera has been a candidate for several years.

Faisal Mahmud
· Oct 13, 2019 · 12:30 pm
Why some of our most engaging writers are from the Indian Foreign Service

Gopalkrishna Gandhi reads books by two former foreign secretaries and loves them both.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi
· Mar 11, 2017 · 06:30 am
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
· Aug 02, 2015 · 10:30 am

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Confessions In Reading

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.’

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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.

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