Utsav, and lists in The Kama Sutra

Yesterday, while scanning a set of disks for a movie to watch, I stumbled upon Utsav.  I had bought the movie a couple of years previously on a trip to India but had never got around to watching it. The choice for this Saturday evening seemed to agree with Wife also, so we settled down under a quilt on the sofa, in a dark room suffused with the dim glow of city lights filtering in through the windows.

Winter’s gift

Last Sunday, when I decided to go for a walk in the nearby woods, I had no idea what lay in store for me. It had been a while – a couple of months, perhaps – since I’d walked there. That afternoon, cold but sunny, I felt an urge to explore the woods in winter.

2008 in lists

A summary of the year in lists of notable experiences/events/things: 

Books – Fiction

- The Reader (Berhnard Schlink)
- The Book of Other People (edited by Zadie Smith)
- Sea of Poppies (Amitav Ghosh)
- The Enchantress of Florence (Salman Rushdie)
- The White Tiger (Arvinda Adiga)
- Thank you, Jeeves (P.G.Wodehouse)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
- Buddha – part 1 (Osamu Tezuka)

Books – Non-fiction

- The shadow of the sun (Richard Kapuscinski)
- The Halo effect (Phil Rosenzweig)
- Fixing Climate (Wallace Broecker and Robert Kunzig)
- Cultural Amnesia (Clive James)
- A Little History of the World (E.H.Gombrich)
- Antiquity (Norman Cantor)
- Essays in Love (Alain De Botton)
- Edward Hopper (Lloyd Goodrich)