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Books have memories, and they certainly do!
In 2008, while I was walking with my friends through the alleyways of Calicut town, where sellers of used-books occupied the verandas of Sunday-closed shops, I picked up Katharine Graham’s Personal History for 40 rupees. Such book-hunting, or rather spending time with my friends to converse and learn English was a normal affair during Sundays…
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When I met Dostoyevsky
I have wandered the streets, nooks and corners and alleys of Saint Petersburg with Raskolnikov. I have felt tremors and numbness in my legs when I had to accompany him to the old-lady’s room. I have often got entangled in the arguments of Mitya, Vanya and Alyosha and lost in thoughts. But how I met…
