Still in Bangalore (with Banville)

My trip to Noida is not yet confirmed and might take another week or so to get confirmed. So me still in Bangalore! I recently read John Banville’s ‘The Sea’, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His prose style is simply awesome to read. Quite different from most books I’ve read. His writing transports you to some sort of “musical” – it just fills your mind and all your senses and holds you c... (read post)

Miscellaneous Ramblings

Vortal – Should have blogged about this earlier itself, somehow slipped my mind. Vortal is Ashok Banker’s online fantasy serial. Ashok is blogging his entire new novel on his website and posts the chapters as he writes them. The chapters go up thrice a week. It’s an interesting read about alternate worlds and revolves around the ‘Vatsals’, a family living in Mumbai. Well, I am not going to give too much away her... (read post)

The joys of working – Free Time!

The good thing about office is once I’m home I’m jobless and totally free! No home work to do, no assignments to complete, nothing. This is so unlike school/college, where there is always some work or the other to do and deadlines to keep.Anyway back to the office situation – now I suddenly have all this free time in the evenings and weekends and so to use up this time, I now indulge (big time) in some of the many forms of ent... (read post)