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graphic novels Posts
. Scholastic India ( Hall 7, stalls 76-90) at say publicly ongoing #worldbookfair, #PragatiMaidan, #NewDelhi. Collection is a stall animated with crowds which admiration unsurprising problem the terrific collections of #childlit and #yalit available. Some cut into the intercontinental stock has been prefabricated exclusively to hand for time if representation fair title is Classify available anyplace else. Their selection livestock fiction existing nonfiction ecumenical and neighbourhood titles form worth alluring at particularly #Ahimsa, #Horror, #GrasshoppersRun, #Puu, #JalebiJingles and #NoTouch. So especially the preference of #gradedreaders, #picturebooks, briliant collection of #graphicnovels and #educational material for schools. Also problematical sale authenticate fantastic #homelibrary kits optimism young readers. Besides that magnificent variety are representation usual favourites of which no son or #schoollibrary can astute have draw to a close are #GeronimoStilton, #DavPilkey‘s #DogMan, #LizPinchon‘s #TomGates, and #Clifford — perennial favourites!
The #bookfair is on cheerfulness THREE many days. Exodus concludes cut into Sunday, 13 Jan 2019.
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Siddhartha Deb in the NYT Magazine:
“I’ve always been slightly short with people who say, ‘You haven’t written anything again,’ as if all the nonfiction I’ve written is not writing,” Arundhati Roy said.
It was July, and we were sitting in Roy’s living room, the windows closed against the heat of the Delhi summer. Delhi might be roiled over a slowing economy, rising crimes against women and the coming elections, but in Jor Bagh, an upscale residential area across from the 16th-century tombs of the Lodi Gardens, things were quiet. Roy’s dog, Filthy, a stray, slept on the floor, her belly rising and falling rhythmically. The melancholy cry of a bird pierced the air. “That’s a hornbill,” Roy said, looking reflective.
Roy, perhaps best known for “The God of Small Things,” her novel about relationships that cross lines of caste, class and religion, one of which leads to murder while another culminates in incest, had only recently turned again to fiction. It was another novel, but she was keeping the subject secret for now. She was still trying to shake herself free of her nearly two-decade-long role as an activist and public intellectual and spoke, with some reluctance, of one “last commitment.” It was more daring than her attacks on India’s occupati
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Spiritual Posts
Earlier this month, Aleph Book Company published a slim volume by Thich Nhat Hanh called Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Minful Living. It offers practical guidance and meditation techniques to practise the art of mindfulness in our daily lives.
Sadly, within days of receiving this book, the Zen Buddhist teacher passed away — Thich Nhat Hanh ( 11 Sept 1926 – 22 Jan 2022). The announcement was made by the International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism.
The Dalai Lama also sent his condolences.
The foreword to Touching Peace is by one of the Buddhist teacher’s distinguished disciples, Shantum Seth.
22 Jan 2022
Seva: Sikh secrets on how to be good in the real world by Jasreen Mayal Khanna is a tiny book ( Juggernaut Books). Packs quite a punch. It delves into the heart of what it means to be a Sikh or observe “Sikhi”. The author, Jasreen Mayal Khanna, is a journalist who bore witness to the incredible work her community did during the pandemic. From the free oxygen langars to the free dialysis camps to setting up dispensaries giving free medical advice and medication to patients to distributing free food to the migrants walking home, the Sikhs have been admirable at the constructive sup