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Luke
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Whoever devised the six Indian seasons took into account this nuance and play; they knew the year, like a day, is not only a progression, a movement from one phase to another, but a passage through echoes, reminiscences, and expectation, through intermediary periods that recall one another, as dusk and twilight do in the day's twelve hours.
— Nov 05, 2024 08:30AM
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Luke
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"Indians don't like fresh olives," says chef Mukherjee, making it pretty clear he doesn't like them himself. "They're extremely salty." Briefly at a loss, he breaks into Bengali—"Ki rokom ekta kash achhe na?" ("Don't you think they have an acidic aftertaste?") It's an aside: as if we are sharing a little-conceded but incontrovertibly plain fact.
— Nov 03, 2024 06:42PM
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Luke
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I'm liking the book, but in such a manner that I impulsively confirmed that the typeface that is treating my attention span so gently is Adobe Garamond. Wondering now how many books teetered on the wrong edge of my dislike due to not having the sense to go with that particular font.
— Oct 28, 2024 08:01PM
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Gavin
is on page 266 of 320
Wounded but mildly relieved the kaajer lok cook comes back to work 10 days after husband dies from excruciating cancer having chewed gutka for decades.
— Aug 28, 2023 06:39AM
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Gavin
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Observe Norwich to anticipate the distant future of Calcutta
— Aug 24, 2023 12:01AM
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Gavin
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The freshness of globalisation drowned in kormaisation
— Aug 23, 2023 04:54AM
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Gavin
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Love to discover that in Bengal the “west brit” equivalent was known as an “IngaBanga”
— Aug 22, 2023 04:03AM
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Gavin
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Will we still be here after the revolution?
— Aug 19, 2023 06:44AM
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Gavin
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“A gentle slope descending into oblivion”; your father’s dementia or the Bengali Marxists?
— Aug 18, 2023 05:52AM
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Gavin
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Bliar’s Britain: Every town a Tesco and a Texaco
— Aug 17, 2023 05:53AM
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