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Hot Tea across India -- Rishad Saam Mehta delights with an enchanting...
One purchase of a travel book and that canny online bookseller started tempting me with more such travel books … it didn’t take long to persuade me to ‘only look’ at such proffered books … I put...
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‘Following Fish’ down and up the Indian coast with Samanth Subramanian …
This book is one gastronomic delight for fish-eaters … Even a sort of antiseptic fish-eater like me couldn’t keep myself from imagining and dreaming about eating some of the fish dishes that Samanth...
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The Deccan Wispy …. A mid-year model from Deccan Pens, Hyderabad …
Aah … back to fountain pens … and it is all serendipity … so to say, but what to say … for the last six months or so (huh…when I actually checked, I was surprised myself … ) it has been about second...
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Books at Abids on 23 August 2015 …some for Mamoon, some for Baba ...
It was almost a month since I had met Vinod at Abids … yeah, that same visit that triggered the Macd(D)onald books frenzy and which sent me on a wild-goose-chase (why chase goose?) of secondhand book...
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Come one, Come all … Sunday ko Hyderabad aavo ... Abids mein booksaan dekho …
I have been writing about visiting Abids on Sundays and buying secondhand books (at very low prices…) and meeting Vinod and his friends and all that for quite some time now … I enjoy my visits to Abids...
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The Three Deccan Onyxes …
The Onyx is one of the staple models from the Deccan Pens’ stable. It is a sort of bread-and-butter pen for user-customers. Everything is as a Deccan fountain should be, except for subtle designing...
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Ex Libris … a must-read book for all those who love everything about books …
Being a ‘voracious’ omnivorous reader and all that I should have known about this book much much earlier than just a couple of months or so back considering that this little gem of a book was published...
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Abids on September the 13th … Mamoon on a roll …
All three of us, Shruti, Mamoon, and I, decided to spend the morning at Abids on Sunday, the 13th of September. Shruti hadn’t met Vinod in a long time. She had wanted to meet Vinod to seek his advice...
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Learning to play the drums … ei babua, pagla gaye ho kaa?
One of the dreams of my teenage years is coming true at this late middle-age of mine … as with many middle-class households of that time (1970s – 80s), the most that many youngsters could pursue as...
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My improvised drum kit ... Part 1 ... the beginning of frenzy ...
I mentioned in my previous post that ‘I thought I’d improvise’ because Abhinav was going ahead with teaching more and more patterns and I only had my practice drum pad and a table for practice at home...
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My improvised drum kit ... Part 2 ... frenzy continues ...
Well … the excitement lasted some days … and I was banging away … and Abhinav had taught me the roll, but I couldn’t do the roll with the combo I had … the magic of the drum roll slowly started...
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My improvised drum kit ... Part 3 ... the frenzy cools ... for now ... !!
This excitement lasted exactly for two days … now, I only got to hear the dhub dhub sound of the cardboard box (my substitute for the bass drum) and the dull thuds of drum sticks on a rubber pad (my...
View ArticleTwo tea-travel-book posts … that became an article in www.springmagazine.net...
Whenever I link my blogposts on Facebook, I get some kind of response … I get ‘like’-s and sometimes also comments … I do look forward to these responses … and there are some of my friends who support...
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A chota crime fiction haul from www.secondhandbooksindia.com
I haven’t been able to visit Abids for more than a month now and am missing all those secondhand books … whether I buy books there or not, going there and meeting friends and wandering head-bent along...
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Abids on December the 6th … Part 1 … haul for Mamoon …
My last visit to Abids was on September the 13th… that was ages ago maan … so many things happened between then and now … not that I am a regular Sunday Abid-er, but even that once a month visit kept...
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Abids on December the 6th … Part 2 … the first phase of my haul!!
Actually the books shown here were picked up earlier than Mamoon’s books, so this is technically the first part of the book haul at Abids on December the 6th… but anyway, how does it matter, you know …...
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Abids on December the 6th … Part 3 … a haul of the 60s crime and mystery...
I had mentioned earlier that I had seen this “stall selling really old crime fiction with those sensational covers that were published in the 50s and 60s …” and “he was selling them for 50 rupees each...
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Oh boy! I forgot to mention this book … Pauline Kael’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang …...
Yeah, I know … I might as well hang my head in shame … but how could I have accomplished such a monumental act of forgetfulness … it is a Pauline Kael book!! See, such things happen … what to do …...
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Abids on Sunday the 20th of December … some more of the same … and others too …
My general Abids schedule is usually once a month, but after my previous trip (on the 6th) where I got those old crime thrillers, and posted their cover pictures, KBS Krishna responded enthusiastically...
View ArticleDespondency in the New Year ... Imagined and Real ...
It is now more than two months ago that I wrote my last post on my blog. I went to Shimoga soon after that for a brief year-end visit with Shruti and Mamoon. We visited a number of familiar places...
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