Posted in across the river on Apr 29th, 2010
It was raining last night.
The English say “it was raining cats and dogs”
Why cats and dogs? I have never seen any cats or dogs falling from the sky. I only see rain.
But it was raining hard - real hard and accompanying thunder was deafening. I was sitting in our family room, reading Hesse’s Novel, Sidhartha. [...]
Posted in across the river on Apr 5th, 2010
Going through my bookshelf, I came upon “The Voyage Out” Virginia Woolf’s first novel. I had bought this novel in 1983 at Victoria train station.
My sister’s Saudi friend Rabia was coming to London to spend a few days with her. This friendship had started in Lahore, Pakistan where both were doing MBBS in FJMC. This [...]
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