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Greater London

Member Since: Jul 08, 2003

Hmm, I don't know what to say really? I was born in Bombay and brought up in London. Nevertheless Bombay is home! I love the monsoon and the melancholy atmosphere it brings to the city- absolutely beautiful. I'm not really sure what else to write so when I think of something, I'll put it down straight away... Following on from that, I've just been inspired by Pablo Neruda so I thought I would put down one of his poems that really tugged on the heart-strings. It's poem XX from his 100 love sonnets collection. Here goes: <i> <b> XX Tonight I Can Write... </b> Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great still eyes. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. What does it matter than my love could not keep her. The night is shattered and she is not with me. This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance. My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. My sight searches for me as though to go to her. My heart looks for her, and she is not with me. The same night whitening the same trees. We, of that time, are no longer the same. I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her. My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing. Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before. Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes. I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her. </i>. Cricket - Without a doubt! Books - Anything, fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, biographies, anything at all with words! Food - Who doesn't love it?

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Reviewed Red Earth and Pouring Rain - Vikram Chandra

Of students and warrior-poets

Jul 29, 2003 12:10 PM | 4797 Views

(Updated Jul 29, 2003 02:21 PM)

Finally a modern Indian author who understands what good (possibly great) fiction is all about- stories. And if it's stories you're after then Vikram Chandra ha...read more

Reviewed 100 Love Sonnets : Cien sonetos de amor - Pablo Neruda

100 ways of saying ''I love you''

Jul 19, 2003 03:15 PM | 14384 Views

(Updated Jul 19, 2003 04:55 PM)

I normally write my reviews as impersonally as possible and try to be as objective towards a book as I can be. But Neruda, by God, makes me break all those rule...read more

Reviewed Use of Weapons - Iain Banks

Symphonies of Destruction...

Jul 17, 2003 11:42 AM | 2936 Views

(Updated Jul 17, 2003 02:26 PM)

The Culture? What is it? Who is in it? What's it all about? Well to really understand Iain M. Banks’ Science-Fiction writing one needs to understand the C...read more

Reviewed Five Best Brands You Should Have

Top 5 colognes/smells for men?

Jul 15, 2003 03:57 PM | 5389 Views

(Updated Jul 15, 2003 03:58 PM)

Well, it's not easy rating something as subjective as your own sense of smell so I thought I'd just provide my own perspective and see how it goes. Well then, i...read more

Reviewed Perdido Street Station - China Mieville

''Parasites, infection and rumour...''

Jul 11, 2003 11:17 AM | 2004 Views

(Updated Jul 11, 2003 11:17 AM)

Fantasy? Horror? Sci-Fi? Steampunk? What’s in a name anyways? China Mieville’s “Perdido Street Station” goes beyond genres in just the s...read more

Reviewed Romantics, The - Pankaj Mishra

Not for Indian palettes

Jul 09, 2003 01:51 PM | 2166 Views

(Updated Jul 09, 2003 01:51 PM)

I was expecting great things having read all the other rave reviews of Pankaj Mishra's debut novel (or is it his 2nd after Butter Chicken in Ludhiana?). They se...read more

Reviewed The Pianist

In a word: Exceptional

Jul 08, 2003 09:44 PM | 2504 Views

(Updated Jul 08, 2003 09:48 PM)

THE PIANIST is based on an autobiography by the Polish classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. The movie is a depiction of the life of Szpilman, played superbly b...read more

Reviewed Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Interesting...ish....

Jul 08, 2003 08:18 PM | 7075 Views

(Updated Jul 16, 2003 10:13 PM)

I had heard so much about Robinson Crusoe that I was really looking forward to a compelling read about human resilience and high drama. But to my greatest surpr...read more

Reviewed Bracknell Forest Resort - Munnar

A Misty Paradise Wrapped in Cardamom and Calm

By: shamilps Oct 26, 2025 04:03 PM | 136 Views

(Updated 10/26/2025)

Bracknell Forest Resort, Munnar – A Misty Paradise Wrapped in Cardamom and Calm Tucked away in the emerald hills of Munnar, Bracknell Forest Resort is not just ...read more