Sunday, August 30, 2009

Kasauli diaries

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Kasauli musings. One, written by me for the Hindustan Times is here . Second by my friend Neelesh Misra is here .
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Left, write

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It is too warm outside. And inside, too. The fan sighs. Newspaper sheets disintegrate and are strewn all over. Picture frames lie empty. A...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Once upon a place: Dispatches from Lalgarh

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Every fire starts from the belly, says Ranjit Mahato. Sitting on a string cot, and occasionally caressing his bandaged leg, Mahato awaits p...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Misir Besra is free

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This is a picture of Misir Besra. He is a top Maoist commander, who was arrested in 2007. Yesterday, he was freed by his comrades in a dare...
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Inside Lalgarh

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This is your reporter inside the liberated area of Lalgarh in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Behind me is a tree felled by the ...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Cheers for Fears

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As the line between euphoria and arrogance fades in Sri Lanka, there are indications of tough times ahead for the Tamils Sri Lanka is like K...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Under the table

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Sunil and Arvind Parmar, owners of a tea stall in Surendranagar, Gujarat, break for lunch while their servant Mangal, an 11-year-old Dalit b...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

The squirrel

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(This squirrel took peanuts from my hands at a hotel in Colombo. Between two appointments, we decided to have beer, and the hotel staff gave...
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The boy with the bomb

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The leader hugged him. With his military fatigues weighing on him, Dayalan could feel the metal buckle of the leader’s belt press against hi...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Sleepless in Sri Lanka

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Some of you must be wondering where I have been all this while. There have been no updates on my book, either. Well, friends, I was in Sri L...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Six days

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Six days have passed, six inconsequential days. On the eight day (the first of the six days), I managed to write about 500 words. Afterwards...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Uneasy lies the turban

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He is probably the only Lok Sabha candidate whose mobile phone got stolen. But it’s something else that bothers Qamar Rabbani Chechi. Pic: R...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Day 6 & 7

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Two days just passed by. I spent time in office, working on small news items. There is this muscular pain I have had to endure. At home, I w...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Day 3, 4 and 5

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I am glad to report that the last three days have been quite productive. On Day 3, I began making the change in the story plot, writing 334 ...
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Friday, May 08, 2009

Day 2

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Day 2: 239 words input. Constipated writing, like that of a teenager writing for his school magazine. Whole day spent in predicting election...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Day 1

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From May 6 till December 31, I have 240 days to finish writing my novel. Yesterday I didn't write anything. I woke up in the morning in ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Last Post

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I have seriously started working on The Last Man from Kashmir . Dear readers, as the municipality says on the good, old roads: Kindly bear w...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Shock Therapy

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Probably by now you are tired of this: I have not been writing again. On my work station, I have pinned up stuff, which I thought would prod...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Gandhigiri in Kashmir

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The people of a tiny village in north Kashmir have won a small but decisive battle against the army, the first such example in twenty years ...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Line of Control

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At an undisclosed location near the Line of Control in Kashmir
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