Dear reader,
It is such a delight to discover that one shares some common interest with people one admires. Interest outside the domain of what one admires them for, of course. While reading a book called Telling Tales by Amit Chaudhuri, which is a collection of a column he wrote for a newspaper, I found an article, a couple of articles in fact, about cricketers. I found the one about Sir Geoffery Boycott hilarious. The essay makes him sound like the main character of a satire about people who take themselves too seriously. I looked up and found the article on the internet. I realised that this was written in 2000 when T20 was not even conceived in the imagination of Indian cricket fans. Twenty four years is a lot. It makes me wonder if Chaudhuri is still interested in cricketers.
Here’s the link. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did -
Sir Geoffery’s Lives
What we published
Out and about: we published a short piece on a road I cross almost every day. Here’s the link. Hope you enjoy reading it and share it with your friends -
Art: Almond Blossom by Nupur Lele
Van Gogh series - 02
Inspiration photos
- Almond Blossom, Vincent van gogh, Saint-rémy-de-Provence, (February 1890)
Listen you must to…
shared a playlist called The Insomniac. In its introduction he wrote - These songs of loneliness can bring you some solace in the conversations with inanimate objects that have become your best friends. You can read the full introduction here but more importantly, here is the link to the playlist -
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