Category Archives: mPhil

Race Trace

Posted on September 1, 2010 by manuscrypts

Anything is possible when you are young. Then you get older and the thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible anymore, you just need some things to be certain. For some reason, this line … Continue reading →

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Collective bargain

Posted on August 25, 2010 by manuscrypts

“The way they speak about dinosaurs now, a few years later, that’s how they will talk about the mill workers”, says a character in City of Gold, a Hindi film by Mahesh Manjrekar, adapted from a play by Jayant Pawar. … Continue reading →

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leg godt

Posted on August 18, 2010 by manuscrypts

Sapphire (toys- retail chain) opened a store in Koramangala recently, and lies on my route to practically anywhere. That means that giant Lego display and I stare at each other almost everyday now. Lego and I go back more than … Continue reading →

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Moth-eaten

Posted on August 11, 2010 by manuscrypts

The Mothman Prophecies, a 2002 film (based on a 1975 book, which is supposedly based on real events!) starring Richard Gere, is about a town that has several people experiencing paranormal events. Gere tries to get to the bottom of … Continue reading →

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Back to eternity

Posted on August 4, 2010 by manuscrypts

Despite being a Star Trek fan, I happen to think that Time is the final frontier, at least in the horizon that I can see. I find it quite intriguing that, though it might be looked on as a tool … Continue reading →

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Purpose Purporting

Posted on July 28, 2010 by manuscrypts

Purpose. I remember bringing this up earlier in ‘Coincide‘ and mentioning that different life stages manage to give us short term purposes which leave little time for this line of questioning – a larger purpose of life itself.  Like I … Continue reading →

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Storied

Posted on July 14, 2010 by manuscrypts

The best thing about buying second hand books is that they might contain stories. No, I haven’t completely lost it, I meant additional stories. Messages, notes on the side, bookmarks from previous owners – they’re all stories. Stories that give … Continue reading →

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Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India

Posted on July 11, 2010 by manuscrypts

Pankaj Mishra If one were to go by the title, Pankaj Mishra is hardly the person who can be trusted to write about the “national bird of khalistan”, after all he’s a complete vegetarian, but then this book is about … Continue reading →

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Watermark

Posted on July 7, 2010 by manuscrypts

Sometime back, while trying recollect the name of a Chinese restaurant in Koramangala which existed circa 2003, I got stuck. Despite different mashups of the various terms used typically for Chinese restaurant names, nothing sounded right. It was a small … Continue reading →

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Only time will tell…

Posted on June 30, 2010 by manuscrypts

My reading list during the Sikkim trip consisted of “The Immortals of Meluha” and “Chasing the Monk’s shadow”, fiction and non fiction respectively. Sometime during the trip, I completed the former, the latter was completed long after the trip. The … Continue reading →

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