Keki Daruwalla.
Could add Vikram Seth too.
Also, Jerry Pinto.

Of summers & dust storms.

#Rajasthan

Geological heritage sites in India. I had no idea these existed..

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Japanese literature specific book club in Delhi.

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Important to note

We are thrilled for our mentor V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan who has just been awarded the The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her stunning second novel, Brotherless Night. Congrats Sugi! npr.org/2024/05/13/125…

It's 11.15 pm, New Delhi, and it shows current temperature at 36 degrees.

Very pertinent thought.

It's bad for my Indian genes too! By the way, I love teaching James Joyce. Lucinda Doyle

Harvard University has a library that protects the rarest colors in the world.

The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies houses the Forbes Pigment Collection, which contains more than 2,500 samples of pigments, some incredibly rare and harvested from things like

On the great Bhagwat Chandrasekhar's birthday, remembering my favourite cricket sledge.
Auckland, Jan 1976. The New Zealand umpires are just refusing to give any decisions against the home team. Finally, Chandra bowls Ken Wadsworth & appeals loudly. The umpire, confused, says,

#heatwave warning. North India. Be safe. Take precautions.

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Ardeshir Irani (1886-1969), a Parsi, directed Alam Ara, India's first sound feature film in 1931. He also produced Kisan Kanya, India's first colour film.

#Parsi Meher Mirza Rashna Gazder Dinshaw Avari

Roomy Naqvy Amitav Ghosh And more!

Basu Chatterjee, who passed away, used to direct these Hindi movies, which depicted 'middle class Indian lives'. I love those movies and the songs there. Also, a number of songs that Yogesh (Yogesh Gaur) wrote, were of a similar nature. (He too passed away.) #Hindicinema

Do read Parminder Singh 's tweet. Excellent input.

Mumbai hoardings. Cyclone. Quotes Amitav Ghosh - refers to his book.

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Worth reading.

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Agree with this point by Narayana Murthy. About entrepreneurs being able to donate shares to educational institutions.

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Quite a few.

Floods in 1983. I would have died.
Prescription medicine allergic reaction, 1988. I would have died.

Once a bat but me. It died! I'm alive.

Some more too.