What is A Fine Balance about?

“What an unreliable thing is time–when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in aContinue reading “What is A Fine Balance about?”

Let’s go to the lush Poppy fields of Ganges this time with Amitav Ghosh!

“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love’s twin was not hateContinue reading “Let’s go to the lush Poppy fields of Ganges this time with Amitav Ghosh!”