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075 - Something, Everything
This letter should have reached two weeks ago, but it comes now, almost a month after the last one. In an already sparse publishing schedule of a season…
Jul 14
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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. Escape was the prime motive, but I…
Jun 16
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073 - How to Eat a Book
Part 1 (Perhaps) | Food Part 2
Jun 2
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May 2024
072 - Archaic Torsos
An exposition on Rilke's works
May 19
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April 2024
071 - Let the Light Enter
Meditation, creativity and god forbid LSD
Apr 28
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070 - New Horizon
Season 5 beckons
Apr 14
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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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September 2023
068 - A Babel in a Veritable Hell
Barbaric city sick with slums, Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains, Its hawkers, beggars, iron-lunged, Processions led by frantic drums, A million…
Sep 24, 2023
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067 - Space and Dreams
He [human being] knows instinctively that this space identified with his solitude is creative; that even when it is forever expunged from the present…
Sep 19, 2023
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066 - Eveningness
Today, I have my father, mother and sister at home with me, it wasn’t so last Sunday, it won’t be so the next; this reminded me of a poem I tried…
Sep 10, 2023
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065 - Stillness of the Night
The prayer drums that girdle this holy conglomerate of stones are one with the stillness of the night. The Gompa is surprisingly stable atop that rocky…
Sep 3, 2023
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August 2023
064 - The Prose of Cons
If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done - Lewis Thomas
Aug 27, 2023
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