Indulging in some proper trash, a fantasy novel by Sarah Maas. Somewhat embarrassingly explicit in places, but a fine read that rattles along for what doesn’t feel like nearly 2000 pages. It’s no Bleak House to be sure, though I wonder what Dickens would have made of today’s fantasy writing. Would he have been intrigued […]
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Lost
The women’s cricket team lost, lol. So much for yesterday’s tide of sentiment.
Unexpected emotion
The women’s T20 world cup is on; the second innings of the Pakistan/ New Zealand match for a place in the semi-final has only just begun. The Pakistan team is not particularly good, but I found myself welling up a little to see my father watching intently, and even the cook lingering as he cleared […]
Quiet Sunday
It was a working Sunday, though to be honest I worked only from the afternoon onwards, but at least finished one of the things I needed to do this weekend. Lunch was phatooray from Icchra, a classic desi meal which I used to have with my mother back in the day when she went to […]
More art
A little more Art today, this time in the walled city. One I liked. It was in an old assembly hall just outside the city. There were some very nice cartographic pieces on paper cutouts, a large one of the world of Tipu Sultan’s grandson, and a massive Boschian 2-parter. A few more forgettable ones, […]
Creating a market
I forgot to mention yesterday the ridiculous ad that was played before the film. It was for toilet paper, and clearly a struggle in a society where lotas and hand-held bidets are the default and toilet paper is regarded with some disgust. So they went for toilet paper for drying to avoid humidity around the […]
Animals and robots
This afternoon I went to the cinema with a friend for a matinee showing of Wild Robot. It turned out to be the children’s screen: there was a (now-defunct) ball pit down front, the seats were shaped foam sofas on the floor, and there was a slide running down the side. There were two other […]
Miss Wisk
I’m reading Bleak House these days, feeling that my Dickens knowledge is lacking. I can’t say I’m loving it, but I can respect it and it is certainly very funny. I was surprised to come across Miss Wisk the feminist, and learned of JS Mill’s extreme disapproval of how she’s presented in the book. I […]
Change of plan
A quiet day today, with a couple of meetings and a bit of work, and a bit of not going to a biennale event after it changed the starting time for the third time, this time a couple of hours before the actual starting time, which did not leave me confident that it would start […]
Double-bind
It’s the familiar double-bind. On ordinary days, working days, I feel like there is not much to write about, and I want to get off my computer anyway. On interesting days, like the days when I was travelling through Central Asia, there is so much to do and absorb that I can’t stop to write […]