Dear Bibliophile, The human body is an amazing entity. It’s autonomous in it’s actions, like moving limbs and blinking of eyes, conscious and unconscious but still autonomous. Yet it’s laid claim to by so many. Our family, friends and workplace all lay claim to our body language and we are constantly trying to shrink or […]
Dear Bibliophile, I went to a university lecture recently, on the ambiguous supernaturality in poetry by Irish poets. The topic, in all its gloriousness was utterly exhilarating until a member of the audience latched on to the word ambiguous. The elderly white man exclaimed, ‘Can it not be that the poets were simply lazy?’ The […]
Dear Bibliophile, There was a snowstorm yesterday in Dublin. Unseasonable. And you realise, how quickly the soft and white turns into hard and slippery. As I worked from home, it was a day of wonder to watch snow transform in the light. Melting into grey ice before turning to water. Snow. No idea why cocaine […]
Dear Bibliophile, It’s one of those times when the universe is aligned and for a moment you are stunned into silence. And into peace. After a rather lengthy and damp year spent in a mice-and-black-mold-ridden house, I’ve finally moved into a new apartment. Dublin rent market is absolutely insane, and this is a lucky find. […]
Dear Bibliophile, As we step into a year of joy and beauty, I hope you are looking forward to it all in 2023. What’s life without a little hope, and what’s hope without a little anxiety. I’ll keep this newsletter short and sweet because frankly, most of us are probably nursing a hangover, and reading […]
Dear Bibliophile, It’s the final month of a year that’s gone by rather speedily. The year when we re-learned to live without the mortal fear of Covid defining our lives. We went on trips, we got married, we lived and loved without paranoia. Even though Covid continues to remain ever-present in our societies, it has […]
Dear Bibliophile, Hope you’re doing well, storing chestnuts, and preparing for the winter. It’s been a long time since I wrote a newsletter, and I deeply apologise for this lapse. Sometimes, I lose sight of important things, and this was one such instance. Although I didn’t stop writing creatively, I stopped writing otherwise. As in […]
Dear Bibliophile, Dadu a.k.a my late maternal grandfather had once said, ‘if you read too much, you won’t end up writing’. This is a real danger. Writing is a discipline, but it is the tag of success society attaches to it that does a disservice to it. There are no successful or failed readers but […]
Dear Bibliophile, As we welcome spring, one can’t help ponder about regeneration and the cycle of life. While writing this newsletter, I kept thinking about the cycle of knowledge – how we found it, lost it and then regained it. Is knowledge coded in our genetic memory? Can we access what our ancestors have known […]
