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Selvi — A Story by RKN

A beautiful story by R.K. Narayan -- an alternate ending to a celebrated life in Carnatic music. At the end of every concert, she was mobbed by autograph hunters. They would hem her in and not allow her to leave the dais. At that moment...

Bionote

The poem Bionote, K.Srilata says, was written on a sort of impulse. “It was triggered by a comment I heard from a friend of mine – quite a culture-vulture himself – about another writer based in Bombay. My friend said that this writer was “so Bombay”,...

Pey Nayanar

On a dark night, the poet Karaikaal Ammaiyar, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century A.D., went to the crematorium — a shunned space then and now — to watch Lord Shiva dance. Her impressions would take the form of two...

Goodbye, Pittsburgh

by Ramesh Mahadevan I have lived in Pittsburgh for almost an eternity. And now it is time to move on. In a matter of weeks, I will be relocating to the Denver/Boulder area. (look me up folks, I will be in a village called Louisville) I...

Old Masters

T. Janakiraman was born on June 18, 1921, in Thevangudi near Thanjavur.(The T of T. Janakiraman does not stand for Thanjavur, where most of his stories are set. Nor does it stand for Thevangudi near Thanjavur where he was born. ) An analysis of his...

The Download with a map-and-compass guy

Harvard professor John Huth is an experimental particle physicist who was on the team that discovered the Higgs boson. He teaches an undergraduate course on primitive navigation at the university, and is the author of The Lost Art of Finding Our Way. The professor, whose...