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SECOND THOUGHTS – THE HINDU
The Play's The Thing - January 06 2013
Short stopover- December 19  2012
E.M. Forster chews ‘paan’- August 04  2012
Of Lords, aunts and pigs- June 02  2012
Storyteller sublime- May 05  2012
Of Writers and writers- March 03  2012
The Unquiet Englishman- February 05  2012
To savour and swirl - December 03  2011
The lone ranger of the Steppes - November 05  2011
The Chatterley hat trick - August 06  2011
Grace of the unspoken- July 03  2011
Fact, fiction and the travel urge-tube - May 01  2011
Immortality in a test-tube - April 03  2011
Fondling the details - March 05  2011
Analysing the novel- February 05  2011
Twitterature: What Next? - January 02  2011
96, not out - December 05 2010
The guest from the future - November 02 2010
No game for knights - October 02 2010
The long way home - September 05 2010
The nostalgia of a reluctant wanderer - July 04 2010
Reluctant writers  - June 03 2010
Song of the road  - May 06 2010
Come with old Khayyam - May 04 2010
In the twilight zone with Coetzee  - April 04 2010
The columns not written   - January 03 2010
Wizard called Oz  - December 6 2009
Of the inconstant heart - November 1 2009
Midnight musings  - September 6 2009
Go East, young man  - August 2 2009
Strange and mystic business  - July 5 2009
Conversations in the dark - June 7 2009
Obsessions, destructive and redemptive   - April 1 2009
Rainy day stories  - March 1 2009
Tormented by a restless breeze  - February 1 2009
Long shadows of short stories - December 7 2008
A slim selection - November 2 2008
Inspiring a masterpiece - August 3, 2008 2008
Cairo from a café - July 6  2008
Wayward wanderers  - June 1 2008
Chronicling the hills - April 1 2008
Theroux: Tips and tales - March 2 2008
Magic of green baize- February1 2008
The allure of Cote d’Azur - December 1 2007
Storyteller of the sea  - November 1 2007
Open letter to Sir Naipaul - October 1 2007
Memories in the mist- September 2 2007
Silences of Shangri La - August 1 2007
Not such an idle fellow - July 1 2007
Reluctant writers - June 1 2007
Song of the road   - May 6 2007
Delhi, yesterday  - April 1 2007
Poet of the hopeless- March 4    2007
In the land of the Panjachinar  - February 4   2007
Prayers answered, somewhat... ? - January 7   2007
Monumental searches - December 3   2006
Landscapes of the mind - November 5 2006
A daiquiri, then a mojito  - October 1   2006
Your Mumbai, my Bombay  - September 3   2006
Water, stone and sky   - August 6   2006
Journals of the footloose  - July 2   2006
`I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel' - June 4   2006
Give me your seconds  - May 6   2006
Of roses and poets  - April 2   2006
The right way to write - March 5   2006