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Shom Biswas

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Soumyadipta ‘Shom’ Biswas is a senior sales executive, a newspaper columnist, a short-story writer, and a dabbler in sundry other things.

He used to have a weekly column on books at the New Indian Express, and his short stories have been published in literary magazines in India and Singapore, notably the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS), Out of Print, The Bombay Review and Spark. He is a regular quizzer, notably having been a semi-finalist at the “University Challenge India” Quiz (2003-04) televised on BBC World. And he perhaps spends way too much time fussing over his Fantasy Premier League (FPL) team.

He is a collector of antique sports books (Wisdens especially), and is a member of the Bangalore Writers Workshop.

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Dwight Muhammad Qawi (1953-2025)

Most of you have probably never heard of Dwight Muhammad Qawi.

He passed away a couple of days ago, and here are a few thoughts about him.

Qawi was one of my all-time favorites – an embodiment of bravery, resilience, and sheer will. Despite standing just 5’6″, he fought from light-heavyweight all the way up to heavyweight, and made every inch count. His style was a masterclass in pressure and precis

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Shom Biswas Shom Biswas said: " I love reading novels. I am, unfortunately, at a stage in life where uninterrupted free time is at a premium. However much I might want to settle into a novel and spend hours in its company, other, greater priorities tend to intervene.

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Shom Biswas Shom Biswas said: " I love reading novels. I am, unfortunately, at a stage in life where uninterrupted free time is at a premium. However much I might want to settle into a novel and spend hours in its company, other, greater priorities tend to intervene.

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World War One by Alan Cowsill
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For a reasonably serious quizzer, I know surprisingly little about the First World War. So I picked this up under the ruse of buying a serious-ish history book for Diego.

I loved it. George Smith and his brother Joe, and their ragtag, motley bunch - B
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The Champawat Man-Eater and The Mohan Tiger by Jim Corbett
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I love Jim Corbett’s stories, and was introduced to them at about the age Diego is now. So this seemed the perfect way to introduce my book-reading but graphic novel-loving ten-year-old to Corbett, and surprise surprise, he loved it too. Of course, D ...more
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গুরুদেব by Rani Chanda
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Started listening to this expecting hagiography, but Oh God this isn't !
Rani Chanda strips away the halo around Gurudev (the way, interestingly, Gurudev mentioned Aban Tagore doing it in 'Gharowa') and gives us Rabindranath the human person. A littl
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Shom Biswas is on page 100 of 172 of গুরুদেব: This is a remarkably beautiful memoir. And written with a surprising lightness of touch, considering the subject.
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Hergé
“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé, The Shooting Star

Ruskin Bond
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
“শুধু বেঁচে থাকতে পারলে, কোনওরকমে কেবলমাত্র বেঁচে থাকতে পারলেও জীবনে কত কী যে হয় !”
― Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, সাঁতারু ও জলকন্যা

“I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.”
― Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

Raymond Chandler
“Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

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