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Bitty Ruminations 76
So this morning, I get a fit, and it is brought on — I think — by my nearing the close of the book I am reading. As pleasurable as it is to notch up another scalp, the bibliophile’s answer to compulsive womanising, something happens when there are fewer and fewer pages to be turned. […]
Bitty Ruminations 75
February 28, 2013
On Jan 30, 2003, I wrote this review for The Economic Times: Madras Plus. And that makes it a decade since I began reviewing (and indeed, writing) for publications, a decade since I shucked off a life in another continent and began another back home in India. Felt I needed to mark this on the […]
Bitty Ruminations 74
February 4, 2013
Time for a “Note to Self.” The people who like what you write, the way you write, the people who understand where you come from, they’ll always read you. That’s not surprising, and the response to that can only be profound gratitude. But when people who don’t care for what you write or the way […]
Bitty Ruminations 73
January 6, 2013
Every time we trot out the melody-is-dead argument, there comes a number that’s nothing but melody, effusive swirls of it, and seduces us into endless-loop listening. I love how Nandini Srikar sings this song, with its profusion of La and Zha words — she touches on them just enough, without turning into an didactic schoolmarm […]
Bitty Ruminations 72
December 16, 2012
In this Twitter era, populated by ADD-ed twits, everything either “sucks” or “rocks.” There’s no median, no room for the “hmmm… not bad… interesting.” Reactions to the Jab Tak Hai Jaan soundtrack led me to believe that that was AR Rahman’s worst ever album, and it was nothing of the sort. Was it a middling effort? A […]
Bitty Ruminations 71
December 8, 2012
There are many canonical authors you’re meant to like, and you pick up one of their books as a means of putting a toe into their literary waters, but after 100 pages or so, you’re still waiting for that epiphany. Some of those with whose books I’ve had that epiphany are Thomas Hardy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov […]
Bitty Ruminations 70
October 9, 2012
One lakh words. That sounds like so much, like stars in the night sky, an unending expanse of text. And yet, holding in hand a book just a little larger than a DVD makes it seem so small, like an astronomer used to looking at far-flung, three-dimensional galaxies through a telescope now contending with the […]
Bitty Ruminations 69
September 5, 2012
I don’t know if I will have the time for a full-fledged review of Ilayaraja’s soundtrack for Neethane En Ponvasantham. Also, after just a few listens, the songs haven’t sunk in fully — though they have left behind rough outlines in my mind. But the main reason for my inability to launch into detailed thoughts […]
Bitty Ruminations 68
August 17, 2012
A mostly remembered report of a recent conversation: Him: Of course I know your work. At one point, I used to love your reviews. Me: [Awkward smile, with the mind furiously latching on to “used to.”] Thanks. Him: At that time there was no one else writing like you. Me: [Awkward smile continuing, with the […]
Bitty Ruminations 67
June 18, 2012
As something of a technophobe myself, I loved reading this almost romantic ode to the joys of writing in longhand. And I loved, even more, the author’s bringing up the issue of the craftsmanship involved in writing: “There is also an old world romance and an artisanal aspect to writing by longhand that you will […]
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