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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.comBlogger2170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-48657118151731801432021-09-19T18:34:00.007+05:302021-09-19T18:37:04.496+05:30The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence<p> </p><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="du4w35lb k4urcfbm l9j0dhe7 sjgh65i0" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; position: relative; transition-property: none; width: 680px; z-index: 0;"><div class="du4w35lb l9j0dhe7" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; position: relative; transition-property: none; z-index: 0;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div aria-describedby="jsc_c_12j jsc_c_12k jsc_c_12l jsc_c_12n jsc_c_12m" aria-labelledby="jsc_c_12i" aria-posinset="1" class="lzcic4wl" role="article" style="animation-name: none; 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font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>Pages: 400</b></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b><br /></b></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">This is one of the unputdownable books. I stayed up late to finish it at one go. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">It is journey into a conservationist's mind and how he goes about it in a practical, no nonsense way. Of course , he needs a team on his side to do that.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Anthony is offered a herd of wild elephants which initially consist of nine but two are shot dead because they had turned bad and he gets seven.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">This herd tries every trick to escape Thula Thula, his sanctuary. Slowly, he wins trust of the Matriarch, Nana by speaking to her, reassuring her in a soft tone. However, he is ever cautious and careful as one can't trust a wild animal fully.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">It is amazing how the elephants communicate with each other and their ability to know things beforehand or comprehend what has happened thousands of miles away. It's uncanny and unexplainable. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Anthony balances his relationship with the local people. He respects each and every animal out there in the wilderness. He is adamant about the herd to have minimal contact with humans. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">There is so much beauty in the African Jungles, its people, the tribes, their belief in the Supernatural, fearlessness of his team and so much more....</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">A must read book for all those who love the nature, the animals, the unpredictability of it all...</div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="l9j0dhe7" id="jsc_c_12l" style="animation-name: none; 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</div><div>Poetry Review</div><div><br></div><div>Girls Like Us by Elizabeth Hazen</div><div><br></div><div>This poetry book is hard hitting. It talks of the strong minded females who has certain misgivings due to societal pressures.... It explores relationships and bondings...</div><div><br></div><div>Being in a same sex relationship, is not recognised by most communities....yet the poet accepts it...</div><div><br></div><div>She is fearless about flaunting it, acknowledging it...</div><div><br></div><div>The poems touch us, the language is flowing, maybe a bit flowery at times but in no way that puts us off. No poetry, for me is trivial or superfluous, because the poet puts all her emotions while writing a poem...</div><div><br></div><div>Poetry only comes from us when we are having deep connection with someone or some issues....same is the situation here too....</div><div><br></div><div>The poet has deep connection with her writings and that has come through...</div><div><br></div><div>My favourite poem is....</div><div><br></div><div>*Why I love Zombie Woman*</div><div><br></div><div>Because she's stuck with rigor-mortis legs and decomposing skin, but perseveres; because she sees without eyeballs, she hears with oozing ears; because her organs, like eggs dropped from their carton, hit the path with splats, but still she trudges on; because her need is clear, uncomplicated: she must feed; because she barely notices the rats</div><div>that gnaw her ankles; because she doesn't stop, even after the hatchet hacks clean through her reaching arm; because she will pursue her prey till they have nothing left to chop.</div><div>Because when she lies in pieces, inside out, she will not know regret, or shame, or doubt.</div><div>*******</div><div><br></div><div>I recommend it for everyone not just poetry lovers</div>gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-83056341402576095382019-06-08T15:37:00.001+05:302019-06-08T15:37:43.001+05:30The Myth of Hindu Terror by RVS Mani reviewed by Ramesh N Vinayak<p dir="ltr">The Myth of Hindu Terror by RVS Mani reviewed by Ramesh N <u>Vinayak</u></p>
<p dir="ltr">Book Review - The Myth of Hindu Terror<br>
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<p dir="ltr">In my opinion, an Autobiography is most difficult to write - particularly when the author is  focusing on few years of his  career and is just retired from Govt service and hence  constraints on what can be written and how much details can be revealed.. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Myth of Hindu Terror - is a fair and square attempt to write about a part of the life of the Author - glorious with achievement and yet lot of turbulence and trouble for standing up for right cause.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The author - Mr.RVS Mani a retired officer who has worked in various Departments and Ministries of Govt of India during his 30+ years of career, has penned this interesting book - "They Myth of Hindu Terror"</p>
<p dir="ltr">While you keep reading the book - you will feel as if Mr. Mani is sitting infront of you and narrating the details of events as they unfolded.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mr RVS Mani - an upright Tamilian, son of an officer with impeccable values and culture, cricketer, ritvik, part of managing comittee of a Vinayaka Temple in Sarojini Nagar, South Delhi and a trustworthy team mate for his superiors and a great friend to his buddies.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Life and circumstances put him in Intenal Security (IS) division of Ministry of Home Affairs.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">That was sometime in 2005 and a new Govt had taken over in 2004.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In this book,  RVS takes us through the events particularly from 2006 to 2010 where there were many terror attacks in India right from IISc bangalore.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are some startling disclosures.. Without giving much details and killing your interest to read the book, I will list them down</p>
<p dir="ltr">- Impeccable and exceptional intelligence gathering by resources of IB and MHA<br>
- Timely notificaiton of State Govts<br>
- without failure - State Govts sit on them <br>
- Invariably - terror attacks happen and blame game begins</p>
<p dir="ltr">The book takes us through a journey of terror attacks</p>
<p dir="ltr">- 11th July 2006 - Mumbai - serial blasts in suburban trains<br>
- 8th Sept 2006 - Malegaon serial blasts<br>
- 18th Feb 2007 - Samjhauta Express blast<br>
- 18th May 2007 - Mecca Masjid Blasts - Hyderabd<br>
- 25th Aug 2007 - Lumbini Park Blasts, Hyderabad<br>
- 11th Oct 2007 - Ajmer Shariff blast<br>
- 21st Nov 2007 - Dist Courts, Jaunpur, Faizabad, Varanasi UP<br>
- 1st Jan 2008 - CRPF Camp, Rampur<br>
- Sept 2008 - Delhi Blasts<br>
- 26 Nov 2008 - Mumbai Terror attack</p>
<p dir="ltr">As RVS takes us through these events, he also unfolds how the UPA Govt, remote controlled by Sonia Gandhi and Home Ministry under P Chidambaram and then Sushil Kumar Shinde, played the deadly game of creating the narrative of HINDU TERROR.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Such treachery not only made normal Hindus feel guilty and ashamed, but gave leverage to Pakistan so show that saffron terrorists are the one doing all attacks and Pakistan never supported terrorism.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You will be also shocked to know that</p>
<p dir="ltr">- Entire top brass of Min of Home Affairs were in Pakistan two days before 26/11 mumbai attack<br>
- They were to return on 25th but their stay was extended in last minute and they were taken to Murrie a hill station that had very low telecom coverage and hence cutting of the top brass<br>
- Additional Secy Border Management - who was normally not part of Home Secretary Level Talks (HSLT) was also included and he was the one who convinced Home Secy to agree for one day extension.<br>
- A pak boat was spotted close Indian Nautical Border few days before 26/11 but no action was taken..<br>
- CISF/CRPF commandos based in Mumbai could have been deployed to counter the terrorist attacks.  But Home Ministry sat on that<br>
- NSG team was ready in Delhi Airport and Plane was ready to take off. But Home Minister, Shivraj Patil had given instruction that he would accompany but he went off to sleep and was not accesssible.  Hence Commando deployment was delayed by many hours</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the worst is - UPA Govt gave a list of wanted people in Pak to Pak Govt but 2 of them were already arrested in India.  This made the whole exercise a joke and Pak used this to destroy the credibility of the dossier.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My take after reading his book UPA Govt deliberately wanted to support Pak to prove it's claim that Pak is not supporter of terrorism and hence built the Hindu Terror Narrative.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now comes the Ishran Jahan case. He was asked to file an affidavit on the stand of MHA by the court and he went and filed. The affidavit was stating the facts and hence supporting the claims of all those officers suspended/arrested for Ishrat Jahan encounter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This put him in the cross-hairs of powers running the country.  How he suffered, how much torture he went through and how much he lost - you must read the book to know.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And he raises some genuine and shocking questions - which have not been answered.</p>
<p dir="ltr">After reading the book, I really started believing that - THERE IS BHAGWAN - who has been really shielding our nation from such nefarious and poisonous politicians.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And we have a saying in Tamil - translation of which is - "Dharma will be surrounded by deceit and treachery and utlimately Dharma will win"</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jai Hind.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Do buy this book at - https://www.amazon.in/Hindu-Terror-Insider-Ministry-2006-2010/dp/9386473275</p>
gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-30599456614444055002017-04-29T17:16:00.004+05:302017-04-29T17:21:46.398+05:3024-Hour Readathon: Opening Survey<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I am reading from Delhi, India</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Mary Oliver's poetry books...</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rice munchies and tea...</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">4) Tell us a little something about yourself!</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "slab serif", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: red;">I am a school teacher. I teach English to Class 12. That is, 17-18 year old girls.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>I have been participating in the readathon for a long time now. So it is going to be pretty much same as others</b></span></span>gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-50936823210685236332017-04-25T17:54:00.002+05:302017-04-25T17:54:35.593+05:30First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros<img src="http://www.booksplease.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/First-chapter.jpg" height="134" width="200" /><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why I Wake Up Early<br />
by Mary Oliver</span></b><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello, sun in my face.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello, you who make the morning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and spread it over the fields</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and into the faces of the tulips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the nodding morning glories,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and into the windows of, even, the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">miserable and crotchety–</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">best preacher that ever was,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dear star, that just happens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be where you are in the universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to keep us from ever-darkness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to ease us with warm touching,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to hold us in the great hands of light–</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">good morning, good morning, good morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Watch, now, how I start the day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in happiness, in kindness.</span><br />
<br />gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-76281255660967404292017-04-25T17:05:00.000+05:302017-04-25T17:12:42.462+05:30Top Ten Things That Will Make Us Instantly NOT Want To Read A Book<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AC-R-AemhVIGFik-BEJTHUrN_enTVpS-vziYda98VkqtLXS2catS5DlhYGEObzSKgmvhXNCLhsZ_BtrhkiLAR9NLU2F8HJ8GxlmnHwuCAhqLpKR61hyz_8hrCM68G71vAAMnYLipsvsd/s1600/toptentuesday2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AC-R-AemhVIGFik-BEJTHUrN_enTVpS-vziYda98VkqtLXS2catS5DlhYGEObzSKgmvhXNCLhsZ_BtrhkiLAR9NLU2F8HJ8GxlmnHwuCAhqLpKR61hyz_8hrCM68G71vAAMnYLipsvsd/s200/toptentuesday2.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at </span><a href="http://www.brokeandbookish.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Slab Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Broke and the Bookish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I read much of everything but I can't stand books related to the following:</span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>2. Fantasy</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>3. Super males/Super Girls</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>4. Werewolves</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>5. Chick Lit</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>6. Alpha Males</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>7. Serial Killers</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>8. Women Abuse</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>9. Animal Abuse</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "slab serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>10. Child Abuse</b></span><br />
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</b></span> gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-88579710943208839892017-04-13T22:33:00.000+05:302017-04-14T12:30:53.472+05:30The Friday 56/Book Beginnings on Fridays<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Slab Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">
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<span style="color: magenta;">Just now the wren from Carolina buzzed<br />through the neighbor's hedge<br />a line of grace notes I couldn't even write down<br />much less sing.<br /><br />Now he lifts his chestnut colored throat</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">and delivers such a cantering praise -<br />for what?<br />For the early morning, the taste of the spider,<br /><br />for his small cup of life<br />that he drinks from every day, knowing it will refill.<br />All things are inventions of holiness.<br />Some more rascally than others.<br /><br />I'm on that list too,<br />though I don't know exactly where.<br />But every morning, there's my own cup of gladness,<br />and there's that wren in the hedge, above me, with his<br /><br />blazing song.</span><br />
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<b>Why I Wake Early<br />by Mary Oliver</b><br />
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Hello, sun in my face.<br />
Hello, you who make the morning<br />
and spread it over the fields<br />
and into the faces of the tulips<br />
and the nodding morning glories,<br />
and into the windows of, even, the<br />
miserable and crotchety–<br />
<br />
best preacher that ever was,<br />
dear star, that just happens<br />
to be where you are in the universe<br />
to keep us from ever-darkness,<br />
to ease us with warm touching,<br />
to hold us in the great hands of light–<br />
good morning, good morning, good morning.<br />
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Watch, now, how I start the day<br />
in happiness, in kindness.<br />
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-76491901542243514242017-04-13T22:07:00.001+05:302017-04-13T22:07:26.978+05:30Booking Through Thursday<br />
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<b><i>What have you been reading lately?</i></b></div>
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I have been reading Romances lately. Nothing much to write about. I read the romances and forget the stories, if we call them that, promptly and then go to the next. Sometimes one just needs mindless stuff, and this is one of those times!</div>
gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-68793918804739462017-01-19T05:30:00.000+05:302017-01-19T05:30:14.111+05:30Poetic Book Tours: Among The Lost by Seth Steinzor<span id="freeText8213351758633417516" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
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<span id="freeText8213351758633417516" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Among the Lost, set in the modern American rust belt, is a meditation drawn from Dante’s Purgatorio. To Dante, Purgatory was the mountain where souls not damned went after death to cleanse themselves of sin in preparation for entering Paradise. What, Steinzor asks, are we preparing ourselves for, having lost the fear of hell and the hope of heaven, in the course of our daily urban existence? And whatever that is, how do we go about preparing for it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hindu Religion is about attaining Nirvana, where the cycle of rebirth is broken. One strives to attain that highest status where ones soul merges with that of God. The soul stuck in mid way is in fact, how we are. We do not even realize it and that is what is terrifying. When we follow the right path then Nirvana is not as difficult as it seems.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I won't say that this book of poetry was a revelation for me. I liked the narration. The way he describes the mundane everyday life and is very near to the cycle of birth and death, being in a hospital. I always found that it is only place which levels us. We are forced to contemplate our own mortality. It is how we deal with it, is the question as well as the answer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lost love need not be saddening. It gives us the confidence and capability to love. However, we are lost in the maze of life and think, why me, why me....</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found the poems rhapsodic, melodious and very touching. The beauty of words cannot but touch the soul, that very soul, which wants to attain the highest state. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">“K. V. Dominic Essential Readings” gathers for the first time the three most important works of poetry from this shining new light of contemporary Indian verse in English: “Winged Reason,” “Write Son, Write” and “Multicultural Symphony.” A fourth collection of 22 previously unpublished poems round out a complete look at the first 12 years of Dominic’s prolific and profound verse. Each poem includes unique Study Guide questions suitable for South Asian studies curricula.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Written in free verse, each of his poems makes the reader contemplate on intellectual, philosophical, spiritual, political, and social issues of the present world. Themes range from multiculturalism, environmental issues, social mafia, caste-ism, exploitation of women and children, poverty, and corruption to purely introspective matters. From the observation of neighborhood life to international events, and everyday forgotten tragedies of India, nothing escapes the grasp of Dominic’s keen sense of the fragility of life and morality in the modern world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>My review:</b><br /><br /><i>This poetry book is one of those which stays with you long after you finish reading the poems. The poems deal with the real issues of our present society and have been written in very beautiful language. The poems deal with real emotions too, arising out of those issues. <br /><br />Women's issues, cultural values, globalization, its impact, all these have been dwelt with strongly and hit us hard. We are aware of what is going around us yet we turn a blind eye. The poems in this book brings us back to those and we are forced to confront. <br /><br />I recommend this poetry book to all those who the world to change for the better...</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Pleasures and pains;<br /><br />two sides of a coin.<br /><br />We toss it early morning;<br /><br />majority gets the pains side.<br /><br />Pleasures come like sprinkle,<br /><br />while pains fall like deluge<br /><br />and continue like monsoon.<br /><br />Happiness is a mist<br /><br />while sorrows shower like snow.</span></i>gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-7324732717134338342016-11-03T09:46:00.000+05:302016-11-03T09:48:19.399+05:30Hassan El-Tayyab's Composing Temple Sunrise<h3 style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; text-transform: uppercase;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>Composing Temple Sunrise: Overcoming Writer's Block at Burning Man </em>is an inspirational coming-of-age memoir about a 26-year-old songwriter looking to refuel his creative energy. Trigged by the Great Recession of 2008, Hassan El-Tayyab loses his Special Education teaching job in Boston and sets out on a cross-country adventure with a woman named Hope Rideout, determined to find his lost muse. His journey brings him to Berkeley, CA, where he befriends a female metal art collective constructive a 37-foot Burning Man art sculpture named "Fishbug." What follows is a life-changing odyssey through Burning Man that helps Hassan harness his creative spirit, overcome his self-critic, confront his childhood trauma, and realize the healing power of musical expression. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of us are plagued by one issue or more, at any given point of time. The way we deal with those is what shapes our lives. Some deal it with inner strength, a few seek help. But Hassan deals it with it by travelling. He is determined to find himself and his muse.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is drifting aimlessly, yet is not ashamed to write about it. He has no aim, no goal as such except maybe for coming in terms with himself. Meeting people, and interacting with them, along with the Burning Man stuff, all these help him in one way or the other.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Personal issues intermingle with creativity and that makes the memoir worth reading. I usually don't read memoirs but I am glad I read it. That too at a time, when I myself seem to going nowhere. Drifting directionless....</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Loved the honesty and the almost, self derision. Maybe simple living is the answer. I wouldn't know. I am not that adventurous to give up my creature comforts. Everything said and done, I recommend it for those who are in dire need of finding themselves....</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I must mention one of the quotes in the memoir that called out to me...</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. </b></i></span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white;">Field Guide to the End of the World</i><span style="background-color: white;">, winner of the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award, delivers a whimsical look at our culture’s obsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflection on our resources in the face of disasters both large and small, personal and public. Pop-culture characters—from Martha Stewart and Wile E. Coyote to zombie strippers and teen vampires—deliver humorous but insightful commentary on survival and resilience through poems that span imagined scenarios that are not entirely beyond the realm of possibility. The characters face their apocalypses in numerous ways, from strapping on rollerblades and swearing to taking notes as barns burn on the horizon. At the end of the world, the most valuable resource is human connection—someone holding our hands, reminding us “we are miraculous.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Title</b>: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-End-World-Poems/dp/0913785768" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Field Guide To The End Of The World</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Jeannine Hall Gailey</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">One things sticks out when you read Gailey's poetry. That she has deep knowledge about science. She touches War in all its forms, Disappearance of Bees, and Natural Disasters. Pondering about all these should stop us on our tracks and it does. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Field Guide To The End Of The World </i>is dark. Yet the humour makes the dark bearable. The way she makes us think is like keep changing channels for our favourite programmes. We want to watch it all at the same time. Same with her poems. We want to savour the poems all at the same time.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14px;"><i>We were taught in grade school different lessons of survival:</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>In case of nuclear attack, hide under your desk.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>In case of chemical attack, buy duct tape.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Buy a rape whistle.Learn a martial art</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>I read old fairy tales, wolves lurking behind trees</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>and parents ready to kill children.Magic mirrors,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>dragons, spells that charm and protect.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Burn this herb to banish ghosts.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Sometimes I imagine afterlife, puffs of pink</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>clouds and unicorns, or gold harps, or glass cities</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>with streets made of Emerald. The whole earth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>spinning like a child's marble below, pitiful.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>We are told to vaccinate, o educate, to warn.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Traffic tickets, parking signs: bureaucratic safety nets.</i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The body is a place of violence. Wolf teeth, amputated hands.<br />Cover yourself with a cloak of leaves, a coat of a thousand furs,<br />a paper dress. The dark forest has a code. The witch<br />sometimes dispenses advice, sometimes eats you for dinner,<br />sometimes turns your brother to stone.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will become a canary in a castle, but you’ll learn plenty<br />of songs. Little girl, watch out for old women and young men.<br />If you don’t stay in your tower you’re bound for trouble.<br />This too is code. Your body is the tower you long to escape,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all the rotted fruit your babies. The bones in the forest<br />your memories. The little birds bring you berries.<br />The pebbles on the trail glow ghostly white.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.in/2015/04/the-robot-scientists-daughter-by.html" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1em;">The Robot Scientist's Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey</a> and</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.1em;"><a href="http://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.in/2009/07/tuesdays-teaserwhereabouts_28.html" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em;">Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But Field Guide To The End Of The World is one of her best till date. It has been divided into sections and each one reaches out. As I understand Rocket Science only too well, these poems touched the scientist in me....</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The poems makes an impact, changes us in subtle ways, and make us wish to reach out and touch the words. Need I say more? May be yes...may be no....I must mention here I am no fan </span><span style="background-color: white;">anything apocalyptic</span><span style="background-color: white;"> or </span>of zombies or vampires. Despite that I couldn't put down this book of poetry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In short, I am going to read more of Gailey's poetry....</span><br />
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-19006502356875106392016-10-08T11:30:00.000+05:302016-10-14T21:49:39.905+05:30Poetic Book Tours: You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Angular, smart, and fearless, Arisa White’s newest collection takes its titles from words used internationally as hate speech against gays and lesbians, reworking, re-envisioning, and re-embodying language as a conduit for art, love, and understanding. You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened works through intersectional encounters with gender, identity, and human barbarism, landing deftly and defiantly in beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: 12.16px;">The first thing I felt about "<i><b>You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White</b></i>" is that it is very liberating. Each and every poem is about love. Not the fairy tale kind but the everyday kind which sustains. I won't say these are spiritual but are visceral, the kind which touch the gut. The poems are like songs of set to tune. Those soulful songs we all love to listen to, in certain moods. With deep feelings, these poems take us to that realm of deep thoughts. We sit back and contemplate. It ceases to matter what kind of relationship. Love is love, irrespective of who loves whom...the race, gender, social ladder is irrelevant. Eroticism is not something which has to be hidden. It can be flaunted subtly, sensually and is to be celebrated.</span></span></div>
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-30851897729525164282016-09-20T20:54:00.000+05:302016-09-20T20:56:03.853+05:30Poetic Book Tours: Ergon by George HS Singer<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ergon-George-H-S-Singer/dp/1625491921" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DY9a6Kkg_jXR9CqlwvCI4Qq8hNoyTKGVsCkxQ3BImmSEZO4tBSzlvIcry8FmI6y_ncZZH5vv5saO2qQODNN7pmroegkT7PFh1SxNP0jWw4pP8hg3ksdGrhN7KoliiOsD355_g4MTA9w/s200/Ergon.jpg" width="152" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEignHA7kRxZy0-bKbpygP5QYnQz6K8VB6AqOAx6vwT16W16MrUUugx_bSNEbjJE2Jgu8YzcGKxoIOoKgho5s5V1_cO02-y8I6G6RR_BLUqscFrOkiueSEPWC9yJKYurDrcZpp49IrJT7h4/s1600/PoeticButton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEignHA7kRxZy0-bKbpygP5QYnQz6K8VB6AqOAx6vwT16W16MrUUugx_bSNEbjJE2Jgu8YzcGKxoIOoKgho5s5V1_cO02-y8I6G6RR_BLUqscFrOkiueSEPWC9yJKYurDrcZpp49IrJT7h4/s320/PoeticButton.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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</span> <span style="color: red;">George Singer's ERGON is precise, delicate and fierce in its engagement with the world.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Ergon: The core function or purpose of something or someone. Virtue arises when the ergon is realized fully. </span></b><br />
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</b></span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ergon-George-H-S-Singer/dp/1625491921" target="_blank">Ergon</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: George HS Singer</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">George HS Singer has made the simple things in life poetic. The use of imagery is awesome. The poems deal with everything in life as well as nature. The poems are deep and very insightful. They make us think about life in ways we have not imagined. I feel that every poetry lover should read his poems. Such a slim volume but with so much depth which touches the core. Heartfelt and at times overwhelming....</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of the best poems:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "quattrocento" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Our Quotidian</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I love you differently </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">now than when you were hot </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">and I sizzled—<br />
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I sweep the floor, scrape away </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> squashed berries, pry </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> tops off medicine bottles you no longer can<br />
and you drive<br />
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across town to find just the right</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> apples, open the bills first, brew kimchee,<br />
worry for the both of us.<br />
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I listen for your stuttering laugh<br />
downstairs and feel the silence<br />
that concentration makes<br />
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when you ply your needlework,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> racing to finish the Christmas stockings<br />
as if the cosmos required it.<br />
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Children phone with stories about</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> their children. We need only change </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">the beds in their old rooms twice a year.<br />
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You call 911 and you’re there</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> with me when the anesthesia<br />
wears off—worry webbing around<br />
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your eyes. Too, you call me cheap</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> and I spit lazy. We walk past each other<br />
in the hallways.<br />
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Until we jump back from</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> the loneliness as, when on a hike, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">a diamond back shook its rattle at us.<br />
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You vacuum, I mop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> I know your smell and you, my snore.<br />
In line at the market, you lean into me,<br />
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Grazing my shoulder with the warm loaf<br />
of your breast, I tap your thigh—still here,<br />
together in the quotidian. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Don't we all wish for everlasting and sustaining love like that?</span><br />
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-68222830459110570632016-08-04T05:30:00.000+05:302016-08-04T19:34:23.908+05:30Poetic Book Tours: Saris and a Single Malt by Sweta Srivastava Vikram AUGUST blog Tour<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0f2ekqpCZ0smk9k-jBaoSqu_pXFAdqVz9qs2l_beptQ9-_N9RyolSIM6lgFJDtIs-wRGKxJ4GxTHRigrzPTd7yMSvmJ6XJKfbfKVOasu6TZEm8WSOE8A0hTzN0IPh3Z5k6Ul-EHmURs/s1600/PoeticButton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0f2ekqpCZ0smk9k-jBaoSqu_pXFAdqVz9qs2l_beptQ9-_N9RyolSIM6lgFJDtIs-wRGKxJ4GxTHRigrzPTd7yMSvmJ6XJKfbfKVOasu6TZEm8WSOE8A0hTzN0IPh3Z5k6Ul-EHmURs/s320/PoeticButton.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Saris and a Single Malt" is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The book spans the time from when the poet receives a phone call in New York City that her mother is in a hospital in New Delhi, to the time she carries out her mother's last rites. The poems chronicle the author's physical and emotional journey as she flies to India, tries to fight the inevitable, and succumbs to the grief of living in a motherless world. This collection will move you, astound you, and make you hug your loved ones. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Saris-Single-Sweta-Srivastava-Vikram/dp/1615992944" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Saris and a Single Malt by Sweta Srivastava Vikram</b></span></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.6;">ISBN 13:</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.6;"> </span><span itemprop="isbn" style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.6;">9781615992942</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span itemprop="numberOfPages"><b>Pages: 46</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher: Modern History Press/2016</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How does one review a poetry book which you know is going to hit you on the solar plexus? How does one keep one's self from getting emotional?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can't....you simply let it be.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The poems are like conversing with self, the anticipation of what awaits one at the end of the journey. The rituals are the means to an end...they help us cope. With grief, With oneself...and yes we also bond with our siblings...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When my dad passed away in 2002, he was 72. He had a fall, broke his hip bone, had a surgery. We expected him to recover but that was not to be and was gone within 11 days. I went numb. The feelings just ebbed out of me. I felt nothing for a while. All three of my brothers were there for me and got me out of the stupor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My SILs took turns to be with maa, never leaving her alone ill the rituals were complete. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know I am digressing. Maybe not. I had the thoughts but at that time I didn't have he words. The words that poured forth from the poet...where images of her mother are made alive for us...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Saris-Single-Sweta-Srivastava-Vikram/dp/1615992944" target="_blank">Saris and a Single Malt</a> is too poignant for me. It is matter of fact, and conveys the eternal emotions too well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PAGE 22 </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>GRIEF</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Everyone has an answer---how to cope and grieve when you have regrets and guilt. But no one tells you how to deal with loss when there is nothing you want to change about your past or your relationship with the deceased.</i></span><br />
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-80239115110150280552016-06-26T11:04:00.000+05:302016-06-26T11:04:02.727+05:30Sunday Post: Back to blogging after a long, long time...<a href="http://caffeinatedbookreviewer.com/2016/06/sunday-post-219-lazy-hazy-days-of-summer.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFMwiHghSDMXYSoJJDGWe-kCDwm_AUnbCR0CAgpAAyRjWGiicWTkt9SrIhhYzUcCz2HaX_Jgv_O4MEyGdgJV6ac9Xc3pt4zoGMCPvTipZnfcQf3c0AdPRaEPe-9EpmcFvMlMoL7DpSmdg/s200/Sunday+post.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For more than a year now, I have not been blogging. Neither here, nor on my poetry blog. I was having a lot of problem in my life...mainly work life. Too much in my mind. Health wise, I am doing fine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe, I was also busy on Facebook and other social media. I had signed up for that #100sareepact and diligently completed that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been reading like crazy. Just haven't been blogging. I have blogged about poetry books though becos poetry is my first love!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since Friday, I have got back to blogging and hope to continue it....</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wish me luck, my blogger friends....</span><br />
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BTW, our schools reopen on 28th June and I am NOT looking forward to that.....<br />
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<br />gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-68026415544642320012016-06-25T12:57:00.003+05:302016-06-25T13:10:29.864+05:30Saturday Snapshot: Vacations are for gosipping<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: center;">Posting for</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3906px; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://westmetromommy.blogspot.in/search/label/Saturday%20Snapshot" style="background-color: white; color: #800040; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.3906px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Saturday Snapshot</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3906px; text-align: center;">, hosted by <a href="http://westmetromommy.blogspot.in/" style="color: #800040; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Melinda of West Metro Mommy</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">#CreativeMaa #ILoveMyDoll</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gate crashed into a colleague's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> place. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We chatted and chatted and chatted. In real. Everyone should do that once in while....</span><i class="_lew" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; widows: 1;" title="grin emoticon"><i aria-hidden="true" class="_4-k1 img sp_fM-mz8spZ1b sx_d580ab" style="background-image: url("/rsrc.php/v2/yx/r/pimRBh7B6ER.png"); background-position: 0px -170px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; display: inline-block; height: 16px; vertical-align: -3px; width: 16px;"></i><span aria-hidden="true" class="_4mcd" style="font-size: 0px;">:D</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I had this doll when I was 8 years old. Nothing special as such but I loved it to bits. It had disintegrated except for the face. Maa renewed it in totality and stitched a new dress for her too, from the scraps she accumulates. I have fallen in love with my doll again. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Her bonnet and skirt are block printed and top is bandhani.</span><br />
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*Grab a book, any book.<br />
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book_reader" rel="wikipedia nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="E-book reader">eReader</a><br />
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*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)<br />
*Post it.<br />
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.<br />
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~<b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2459440.Hardheaded_Weather" target="_blank">Hardheaded Weather by Cornelius Eady</a></b></div>
gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-62893081941652287242016-06-07T18:17:00.000+05:302016-06-07T18:21:41.976+05:30POETRY: The Couple Who Fell to Earth by Michelle Bitting June Blog Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The poet has taken the everyday experiences into a different level. While reading one can visualize those but long after, it leaves such a mark that is beyond the mundane. One is left wondering at the words. The present day trials and tribulations give rise to such beautiful poetry. We all have such things happening in our lives but poetry coming out of it is a revelation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The conscious and the subconscious merge at some point...the poetry </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of it, leaves the reader in a trance. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just read the following poem and you will know what I mean....</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Goods </b><br /><br />It’s the corporeal feelings <br />I crave the most: aridity, lust, <br />their aches’ redaction, love-weariness, </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the noble night </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that will carry us, </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We all have such kind of feelings and emotions at one point or the other. However, we don't know how to describe those feelings.....and to understand those is even harder. The poet has done that. She has given us a piece of ourselves. If one knows what I mean....</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is not THAT particular couple who fell to Earth. We did too, with them....and what a grand feeling that is....</span></div>
gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-44160506644511192982016-04-12T21:02:00.000+05:302016-04-12T21:18:17.499+05:30Poetic Book Tours: The Jane and Bertha in Me by Rita Maria Martinez<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28779618-the-jane-and-bertha-in-me" target="_blank">The Jane and Bertha in Me by Rita Maria Martinez</a><br />
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</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This spring marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. In her ambitious and timely debut, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Jane and Bertha in Me</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, Rita Maria Martinez celebrates Brontë’s classic novel </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jane Eyre</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. Through wildly inventive, beautifully crafted persona poems, Martinez re-imagines </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jane Eyre</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">’s cast of characters in contemporary contexts, from Jane as an Avon saleslady to Bertha as a Stepford wife. These lively, fun, poignant poems prove that Jane Eyre’s fictional universe is just as relevant today as it was so many years ago. </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Jane and Bertha in Me</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> is a must-read for any lover of Brontë’s work.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Poetry is not easy to review. Mostly because, it is pretty personal. </span></span></i><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jane Eyre is one of my all time favourite novels. And taking each of its characters in the contemporary context is really very touching. The eternal feelings do not die out. The language is so beautiful that I paused a few times to savour those. The poems are as timeless and memorable as the novel. The poet has done full justice to the characters. The images she creates stays in our mind long after we finish reading the poems. I am a fan of Charlotte Bronte but one can enjoy the poems without even knowing anything about Jane Eyre or the author. The poet is so talented and imaginative. I wish I had the print copy. To simply hold it to my heart.....</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rita Maria Martinez is a Cuban-American poet from Miami, Florida. Her writing has been published in journals </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">including the Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, MiPOesias, and 2River View. She authored the chapbook </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jane-in-the-Box</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, published by March Street Press in 2008. Her poetry also appears in the textbook </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Three Genres: The Writing of Fiction/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry and Drama</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, published by Prentice Hall; and in the anthology </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Burnt Sugar, Caña Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, published by Simon & Schuster. Martinez has been a featured author at the Miami Book Fair International; at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida; and at the Palabra Pura reading series sponsored by the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Florida International University.</span><br />
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<strong>April 4:</strong> <a href="http://www.literaryfeline.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Musings of a Bookish Kitty</a> (interview)</div>
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<strong>April 10:</strong> <a href="http://emmaedenramos.weebly.com/blog" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Emma Eden Ramos</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 12:</strong> <a href="http://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.in/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Everything Distils Into Reading</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 15:</strong> <a href="http://bookdilettante.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Book Dilettante</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 16:</strong> <a href="http://www.sukosnotebook.net/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Suko’s Notebook</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 18:</strong> <a href="http://www.truebookaddict.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">True Book Addict</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 22:</strong> <a href="http://jorielovesastory.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Jorie Loves a Story</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 25:</strong> <a href="http://diaryofaneccentric.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Diary of an Eccentric</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 26:</strong> <a href="http://unabridged-expression.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Unabridged Chick</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 27:</strong> <a href="https://prettypurplepolkadots.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pretty Purple Polka Dots</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 28:</strong> <a href="http://impressionsinink.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Impressions in Ink</a> (review)</div>
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<strong>April 30:</strong> <a href="http://www.create-with-joy.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Create With Joy</a> (review)</div>
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-10349961764345940752016-03-01T20:43:00.004+05:302016-03-01T20:43:49.723+05:30iRead Book Tour: Review of Hidden Chamber of Death by Hawk MacKinney and Pre-written author interview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hidden Chamber of Death by Hawk MacKinney<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; max-height: 1e+06px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hidden Chamber of Death is a compelling tale of intrigue, murder, deception and suspense that leads retired Navy SEAL/part-time private investigator Craige Ingram in search of the connection between seemingly random murders and a banking conspiracy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Drive-Rebecca-Foust/dp/1941209165" target="_blank">Paradise Drive</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Author: <a href="http://www.press53.com/Bio_Rebecca_Foust.html" target="_blank">Rebecca Foust</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ISBN: 9781941209165</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have a deep seated love for Sonnets. I have written a lot. Reading Rebecca Foust was a pleasure. Her sonnets deal with the 21st Century issues. Very contemporary and hits the gut. The Pilgrim's journey has just begun. The quest, the questions, the path and how to define oneself in this modern era....</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She covers terrorism, autism, divorce, birth, war, drugs.....I never could think of Sonnets in the modern context. There I was sitting, reading the sonnets, and thinking about that eternal search of truth the poet has tried to find for herself and for us, the reader. There is darkness, yet there is light. In many ways, I could identify myself with The Pilgrim.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Filled with vivid imagery, descriptions, sensuality, deep thoughts, the language is simply beautiful. The references are very meaningful and give us great insights into each of the sonnets.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I recommend this book to those who love sonnets, poetry and also those who try to experiment in their reading...</span><br />
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This saree is Cotton handloom from Nalli with pretty border and buties all over the body. Half and half, grey and oilve green. It was a gift from my youngest SIL, a few years back. I draped it today without a fall! Matched it with a readymade Kalamkari blouse. Accessorised with my gold jewellery....</div>
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Delhi Govt had declared a holiday for Chhatt Puja today. As usual I was in my disreputable capris, faded tee and also had oiled my hair.</div>
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I asked my mom if she would like to visit the Trade Fair in Pragati Maidan. I wanted to take her in Business hours when there is less crowd. She was not keen. I asked if we shd go to Moments Mall in Kirti Nagar. She agreed.</div>
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Now I got out a saree and she was like...are you mad? I told her either I was going in the clothes I was wearing or drape a saree. So here I am draping this Sambalpuri ikat I had bought for mom for Mother's Day this year. Paired it with a magenta handloom blouse from Nalli. I made a jooda so that my hair does not look chipku chipku...sticky.</div>
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I draped this Sambalpuri Ikat which I had bought for Maa for Mother's Day this year. Paired it with a Magenta handloom blouse from Nalli. Maa to draped a Sambalpuri Ikat. I am yet to drape that...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;">"Angels Sing to Rest" begins where "Darkness Knows Me" left off: after the investigation into the death of the Deep Ellum Killer, Levi Devereux. </span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Vincent Rocha knew he hit her hard, but at the time he figured she deserved it. He paid her good money to do what he wanted and by God she was going to do what he wanted. He checked for a pulse at the side of her neck when she lay flaccid on the bed for too long. There was nothing. He didn’t think he hit her hard enough to kill her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">That he killed this woman with his own hands didn’t panic him. She wasn’t his first dead prostitute and she wasn’t likely to be his last. If he thought of prostitutes as human the whole scene might have played out differently. Her kind provide a service. They make themselves available to him and others like him to use up and throw away. His father told him it was the order of things. He believed him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Vincent rolled the woman over so he didn’t have to look at her face and untied the scarf from her neck. He threw the silk bed sheets over her naked body, not out of any sense of propriety — he purely despised the look of her, with her dyed red hair and stubble covered legs. Experience taught him that her kind was always ready — for cost, a few extra twenties and a bottle — to do what the higher priced call girls wouldn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">He went to his closet to cover his own nakedness with a robe and picked up the phone beside the bed. He dialed. When someone finally answered, it was his second in command. “Martin, come to the loft and drive the van. I have some garbage for you to pick up.” Vincent purposefully hung up before Martin could ask questions and went to the utility room for the thick plastic drip sheet and masking tape the remodeling company left behind.</span></div>
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gautami tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263295136331930331.post-64380851397072698472015-11-14T08:42:00.001+05:302015-11-14T08:43:16.983+05:30Saturday Snapshot: Festivals and Sarees go hand in hand<b style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Nov 11, 2015</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">My saree, a gift from Upma Bedi ma'am. Maroon Cotton with a purple gold border. Paired it with a gold brocade blouse and gold jewellery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Maa is draping a Sambalpuri cotton. I had gifted it to her for mother's day this year. Of course, I will drape it too....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Lots of stories but who is gonna read those on Diwali?! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Come any festival, I miss my eldest brother. He is one of those forgetful and serious persons. However, with abundance of love and goodies. When he was studying in IIT, Delhi, he used to save from his scholarship and give it me. Even when he went to IIT, Madras for M.Tech, he made sure I had funds! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It was kind of unwritten pact that none of us would tell our parents about it. When he started working, it was like bonanza for me! He was not much for shopping but if I asked him to accompany me, he did that with immense patience. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Fast forward......he got married......and I got a SIL who has continued the tradition. She gifts me all kinds of stuff although my brother still dolls out money to me. Not that I need any of it. It is not about gifts any more. It is about caring, sharing and affection. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I still argue with my brother and at times we don't even speak to each other. But I know, he is always there to listen to me. I am hot-headed and impulsive. He is cool and calm.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I call him at all odd hours if I am upset and he simply listens to me. Only after I get it all, out, he slowly demolishes my anger by his rationality. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In this materialistic world, it is siblings bond that only matters. Everything else is zilch. I am grateful that I have three siblings. Wouldn't trade that for anything. My bonus is, I got three sisters too, via them...what more do I wish for?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Oh, I forget! Three nieces and two nephews.....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now, why I miss my eldest brother on festivals? Because, he made sure all of us got together. Now.....it doesn't happen that way....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Today, we had lunch at my youngest brother's place. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I had draped a saree to school. I did not change that. A yellow saree with thin red gold border and somewhat ikat aanchal. Paired it with a mix and match blouse bought locally. Saree was a gift from my second SIL long time back. I drape this saree once a year. Accessorised with gold hoops.....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Well, yesterday it was two saree day! Nip in the air makes one reach out for silks. And it was wedding reception of a colleague's son.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Delhi is known for its bling and I own only one blingy lehenga saree, which is a big no no!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So here I am draped in a traditional silk. Gold orange Khandua pata from Odisha. This saree changes colour under different lights. Sometimes gold, sometimes orangish yellow and in rare times, a bit purplish too. One of my earlier purchases, I love it. I lost count of the times I have draped it. Paired with a mix and match blouse and pearl accessories....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Let's come to the food part......so many choices....and all so yummy. I gorged and gorged. In fact, every one did that.....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Middle child......one who is left alone most of the times, one who is more independent than the older and the youngest one. Technically I share that spot with my second brother. Although years apart, we had more in common in our childhood years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">According to my mom, he always wished for a sister and when I was born, he seldom left my side. I have faint memories of following him about. He was my champion, my hero. It continued till he passed out from school and got into IIT. And suddenly, he was in hostel!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As it happens with everyone, we drifted apart after that. I still looked up at him when he used to come back in holidays. But now I was the sister who pestered him and no teenager likes that!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By the time I had passed out from school, he was married.....and......I got busy with higher my studies.....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The closeness did come back.....after his daughter got married.....I realized I had always missed that. With him, I am again the little girl who followed him around, and he, my champion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Brothers feel the same way as sisters. But they are not as demonstrative as us. I ought to know. I have three of them! In my next posts, I will talk about my other two brothers.....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">National Museum has always fascinated me. I have visited it pretty often.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">When I was in college, I had heard about the Art Appreciation course offered by National Museum. I always wanted to do it. Somehow all through my college and Univ days, it did not materialise.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">When I started teaching, I didn't give it much thought. However, it was there in the back of my mind. One day, I was conversing with one of my colleagues, Nity Sharma and I told her about this wish about doing the Art Appreciation course, somd day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It was July 2007. She told me that her husband was the registrar of National Museum and admissions were open for the batch starting in Aug. At her behest, I went the same day, filled the form, deposited the fees and voila, started attending the course from August. It was once a week, every Thursday, at 5 30 pm. It went on till mid Dec.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I had to submit four assignments too, which I enjoyed doing. I learnt about Indian art.......ancient, mediaeval and modern, Japanese, Chinese, European and lot more. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We were also served tea and snacks each day. Best part was meeting people from all walks of society, students, journalists, foreigners, politicians etc. I still have last lasting friendship with some.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Well, now I have Certificate in Art Appreciation from National Museum. It sounds good, doesn't it?!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">My saree? Maheshwari cotton with Bagh block prints. I had bought it for maa but it came back to me. I have paired it with a Gold bordered maroon handloom blouse bought from Nalli.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Hope all appreciate the art of my saree and the blouse.....:P</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We must not forget the lights. I get so nostalgic when I put up the lights. My dad used to put together the holders for the zero watt bulbs of all hues and colours. I was the one who helped him. He used to sit at one place and I was the one handing him wires cut to the right length as specified by him, the holders, the pliers, the screw driver etc etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Or we worked simultaneously. I, with one set of wires and holders and he with another. Each year we would get those wired stuff and check out the holders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Only then we put those lights up. Next step was checking the bulbs. The first Diwali, after he passed away in May 2002, I couldn't stay at home. I and mom went to Bhubaneswar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">However, from 2003 till date, I and mom put up those very same wired holders after checking those the same as before. And we talk of dad. His quirks, idiosyncrasies etc. He loved Diwali. He was very enthusiastic about fireworks and all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We no longer buy crackers but we ensure to put up the lights, diyas and prepare a lot of sweets. Gifting is part and parcel of the festival. And it continues.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Coming back, my saree is a printed Kashmiri silk bought in a sale. Paired with a red Ikat blouse. I like the off white and red </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">This is a heavy art silk saree from Pune. I love the multi coloured border and aanchal. It does not slip and is pretty easily draped. Paired with my purple handloom blouse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Needed to boost my moral by draping this saree. Not that it happened...</span><br />
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