Tag: Archive
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Archives: A Case for LawFing
When I visited the Navakarnataka bookstore last Saturday, I chanced upon a small book titled ‘A Case for LawFing’, written and edited by S. R. Gautham. This is a “collection of humorous titbits and anecdotes relating to Law and Lawyers”. Though there is no further information about the author, in a newsletter ‘Communique’, which is…
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Archives: The Confluence: A Play by Suri V. Subramanyam
During my visit to the Select Book Shop on Brigade Road, Bangalore, I found a slim copy of The Confluence: A Play by Suri V. Subramanyam. Without even looking for any details, I just brought that book because it’s a very small book (6 pages) and I would need something to read in a single…
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Archives: Charan Singh: Chronology of major events
1902 Born on 23 December in village Nurpur, Meerut district. 1923 Received his BSc from Agra College, Agra. 1925 Received his MA from Agra College. Married to Smt Gayatri Devi on 5 June 1925 1926 Received his LLB from Meerut College, Meerut, Agra University. 1928 Practiced law in Ghaziabad. 1929 Joined the Indian National Congress…
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Archives: To a Rag and Bone Boy by Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy (Translated by Rowena Hill)
In someone’s shed in someone else’s arms the boy has slept; he gets up at dawn, kicks the laggard beside him, slings a sack-bag over his shoulder, and out he goes into lanes and filthy alleys. He comes to a corporation dump, stands with clasped hands as if discovering a treasure, turns and wades in;…
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Archives: The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
Remember me? I am Professor Sheth. Once I taught you geography. Now I am retired, though my health is good. My wife died some years back. By God’s grace, all my children Are well settled in life. One is Sales Manager, One is Bank Manager, Both have cars. Other also doing well, though not so…
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Archives: One day I cursed that mother-fucker God. by Keshav Meshram
One day I cursed that mother-fucker God. He just laughed shamelessly. My neighbour – a born-to-the pen Brahman- was shocked. He looked at me with his castor-oil face and said, ‘How can you say such things to the Source of the Indescribable, Qualityless, Formless Juggernaut? Shame on you for trying to catch the dharma-hood in…
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Archives: Self-introduction by Neerav Patel
be my guest someday, sawarna [high caste hindu]. if you want to feel the pangs of woe come in the guise of an untouchable. see, yonder is the way to our village from the city. avoid that tallest mansion – our young girls are seduced there customarily. that landlord is the king of our village…