Archive - Bombay Daak

080 - The Hour of Departure

Oct 2

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

078 - City Oddities

Hello, Last to last week I caught a Bombay Belly Bug.

Sep 1

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

July 2024

076 - Mean Reversions

Will the classical make a comeback in a world of chaos?

Jul 28

075 - Something, Everything

This letter should have reached two weeks ago, but it comes now, almost a month after the last one.

Jul 14

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

073 - How to Eat a Book

Part 1 (Perhaps) | Food Part 2

Jun 2

May 2024

072 - Archaic Torsos

An exposition on Rilke's works

May 19

April 2024

071 - Let the Light Enter

Meditation, creativity and god forbid LSD

Apr 28

070 - New Horizon

Season 5 beckons

Apr 14

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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