You’re still reading this blog? Bless you. I will return properly once the book is done. But since you are here, you are clearly both patient and discerning. So. Go to a bookstore.Get this. The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers, Sarnath Banerjee (more launches coming up in various cities, so visit Sarnath’s site often. I’ll probably [...]
Ahem
Posted on May 17, 2006 by Samit Basu
Will be reading this at the Metrospective event tomorrow. Jeet Thayil, Samrat Chowdhury and Vivek Narayanan will also be reading. So I guess I shouldn’t have posted it today, but I had fun writing it, and coudn’t resist. See you if you’re there. A Hymn to New Him (by Samit Basu, with apologies to Alan [...]
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Post-mirror-look reflections
Posted on November 22, 2005 by Samit Basu
The Hippopotamus, by Ogden Nash Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him. Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus! We really look all right to us, As you no doubt delight the eye Of other hippopotami.
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The Incomparable Poetry of Devajit Bhuyan
Posted on October 27, 2005 by Samit Basu
I’ve been meaning to post quotes from my favourite book of poetry for a while now. I suspect this book is out of print – I have asked for it at most of the major bookstores in Delhi at least, but they dont seem to have it, which is a slap in the face of [...]
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Hey single desi
Posted on August 9, 2005 by Samit Basu
are you getting some action? ask-raps Sagnik Nandy
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