“When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.”
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Desiderius Erasmus
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- chellsie
- "Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!" - Alice in Wonderland
what you liked just that little bit more :)
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Shaniwar Wada is one of those typically touristy, must-see places in Pune. It was the first historic landmark that a friend had brought m... -
कभी सोचा है... हमारे रिश्ते का नाम क्या है मोहब्बत? ज़रूरत? ख़वाहिश? जनून? इश्क? या वोह रिश्ता जो... आसमान का ज़मीन से है बारि... -
I gaze at the canvas; clean, white, new. I imagine the colours that will fill its vast emptiness, line it from end to end, top to bottom, ...
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बेज़ुबान बन जाते हैं ये होंठ तुम्हारे आने पर लफ्ज़ न जाने कहाँ गुम हो जाते हैं... समझे ना यह दिल इस बात को, जब बेक़रा... -
An unexpected mid-week holiday was the perfect excuse for wiping the dust off my camera and taking it along with me on a short drive to Pa... -
My little boy rings the doorbell when he returns from school, and then rushes to hide. It's an elaborate game we've pla...
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The last time I had been to the Aga Khan Palace, a decade back, the drive there had felt like a long journey beyond city limits, and the P... -
You wouldn't think it possible to find a quiet, oasis of calm in the heart of Pune, but that’s just what a friend and I discover at the... -
I unlock the front door and enter my home. I'm immediately assailed by the loud, yet immensely pleasing strains of Pink Floyd...
Whoa! Impressive! And i notice the Richard Bachs and Chitra Bannerjees have been moved to a slightly more favourable position in Pic2?!
ReplyDeletehai, na?! :) btw, the shelves are deep. there's lots more books behind what you see...and in the lower shelves, which ain't in the pic. (i'm gloating)
ReplyDeleteoooh, you've been studying the pics carefully!;) yep, the bachs and banerjees are my favourite. forgot about the iliad and the gibrans. else they'd be up in front too, someplace... grr.
(and this comment is beginning to resemble mail.)
Gosh--I just saw this post and realized how uncanny the beginning is--we both wrote posts on books beginning the same way...Whoa :)
ReplyDeletehaha!!! same pinch to ya!! :D
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