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Oct.07.2010
THE FACE
There was a huge canvas of a baby being pulled in to a vortex of grief of a crazed woman. The media, intelligentsia and the hoi polloi were all struck alike by an appalling sense of gloom and destruction, it negated all life. Further down the hall, this basic theme...
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Dec.24.2009
Christmas celebrations in our school (St. Thomas Girls’ School) began by early December singing carols additionally over and above our normal prayers. When one was a child I remember getting restless and wishing we would get on with our classes. It’s later as an adult far away from Delhi and not...
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Nov.11.2009
I was trying to enter the book 'In search of Sita' revisiting mythology edited by Malashri Lal and Namita Gokhale that has published my tale 'Sita's letter to her unborn daughter' under the Published book section. But discovered that Penguin India that is the publisher is not listed on the...
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Oct.15.2009
Dorothy and the Wizard of OZ had enchanted me when I was young but I renewed my relationship with her after my first born was big enough to listen to tales and since he was an avid reader I rediscovered the entire 'OZ' series. I also discovered that Baum had named ‘OZ’ after a random...
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About Chandra
She was born in Calcutta and spent her formative years in Delhi. She graduated in Economics(Honours) from Miranda House, Delhi University. She received her post graduation in Economics from Jawahar Lal Nehru University New Delhi. For a brief while she taught...
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