Archive for July, 2008
Love in a foreign language
I’m in love. With a foreign language. I am learning to live with its eccentricities everyday. It’s a beautifully strange experience. A brand new outlook to life opens up in front off like an abyss making my head spin.
Learning a new language is a bit like visiting a new country. You have to watch what you [...]
Filed under: General, Life, Self | 9 Comments
Tags: Español, foreign language, love, Spanish
Rediscovering ABBA
I have a CD-full of 80’s songs which a friend of mine had given me four or five years ago. But I hadn’t checked it out completely. Yesterday, I discovered it in my music collection and decided to listen to it. ABBA consisted a big part of the collection. One by one I listened to [...]
Filed under: Life, Music, Nostalgia | 10 Comments
Tags: 80s, ABBA, Music
After a pasta-laden brownie-stuffed lunch, M and I whiled away more than 3 hours sitting under the trees in an old bungalow-turned-yellow café in the heart of the city. We planned to have lunch at our usual haunt and follow it up with attending Amitav Ghosh’s reading at Landmark. (AquaM joined us only for lunch.) [...]
Filed under: Books, Life, Madras, Reading | 5 Comments
Tags: reading; writing; Amitav Ghosh
