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Parvathy Nair's Small Talk

Personal takes on books, movies, travel, the world. And a
bit of writing experiments

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The Power of the Story
The Power of the Story
  Victory City by Salman Rushdie It is amazing to see how much of real history finds its way into Rushdie's latest novel Victory City. Rush......
9 Months Ago
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2023: My year in reading
2023: My year in reading
  56 was the number this year. Though I tell myself numbers don't matter, the quality does, I always start with the number. The least it doe......
11 Months Ago
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Love, Loss and Renewal
Love, Loss and Renewal
  The Covenant of Water  Abraham Verghese An engrossing inter-generational story set in lush Kerala, it is easy to see why this made it to t......
1 Year Ago
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The World As A Miracle
The World As A Miracle
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard Annie Dillard does a Walden, only this time set in ‘70s Virginia. She describes a year in her life,......
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My Good Reads of 2022
My Good Reads of 2022
A reading slump in the latter half of the year saw me average just less than a book a week in 2022. There was a good mix of fiction and non-......
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Shah Rukh as metaphor
Shah Rukh as metaphor
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh  By Shrayana Bhattacharya This is an important book, one that documents the lives of a certain generation of I......
2 Years Ago
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