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080 - The Hour of Departure
A last call
Oct 2, 2024

September 2024

079 - A Poet's Funeral
It’s been a week where one’s body and its mind were at odds, a premise ripe for existential questions to torment one’s night.
Sep 15, 2024
078 - City Oddities
Hello, Last to last week I caught a Bombay Belly Bug.
Sep 1, 2024

August 2024

077 - Old Gosts
Old gosts don’t have the H, as one has recently learnt. They, like gossip and myth making, come from an ancient part of our collective memory, and still…
Aug 11, 2024

July 2024

076 - Mean Reversions
Will the classical make a comeback in a world of chaos?
Jul 28, 2024
075 - Something, Everything
This letter should have reached two weeks ago, but it comes now, almost a month after the last one.
Jul 14, 2024

June 2024

074 - Dreams are Made of Ceramic
Towards the end of last year, I captured the intrigue of a friend and we drove to Jaipur from Bombay for a few days.
Jun 16, 2024
073 - How to Eat a Book
Part 1 (Perhaps) | Food Part 2
Jun 2, 2024

May 2024

072 - Archaic Torsos
An exposition on Rilke's works
May 19, 2024

April 2024

071 - Let the Light Enter
Meditation, creativity and god forbid LSD
Apr 28, 2024
070 - New Horizon
Season 5 beckons
Apr 14, 2024

October 2023

069 - The Archeology of Language
…contemporary precisely because he has such command of the poetic and historical past, and because his invented language has such depth, archaeological…
Oct 2, 2023
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