Meet 11: Loneliness

31 March, 2017 It was a somewhat lonely session with only three people able to make it. Discussion veered toward the difference between `loneliness' and `solitude'. Wendel Berry wrote ` In solitude one’s inner voices become audible [and] one responds...

Meet 9: Fear

Contributions this time explored the nature of fear, the utility of fear and a new (to most of us) genre of story-telling - the chat story. Enjoy... Torture by Hope, a short story (original in French) by Count Villiers de...

When I have fears

By John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd...

The Map of Tender (ness)

The Carte de Tendre (Map of Tender) was "conceived as a social game during the Winter of 1653-1654" by Madelaine de Scudery. The map shows a geography entirely based around the theme of love and represents the path towards love. On the...

Swami and Friends … an extract

By R K Narayan shared by Devika

Meet Four : Childhood

11 November, 2016 The theme this time was ‘Childhood’. … and coincidentally, two of our regulars could not make it to the session because their little ones needed them at home. Talk about living the theme 😀 Everyone brought a...

Dil-e-nadaan tujhe hua kya hai

By Mirza Ghalib. Lyrics  from rekhta.org dil-e-nādāñ tujhe huā kyā hai āḳhir is dard kī davā kyā hai ham haiñ mushtāq aur vo be-zār yā ilāhī ye mājrā kyā hai maiñ bhī muñh meñ zabān rakhtā huuñ kaash pūchho ki...

The Lake

(Translated from the original French) The Lake By Alphonse de Lamartine Translated by A.Z. Foreman In 1816, at Aix-les Bains near Lake Bourget, Lamartine made the acquaintance of one Julie Charles. The following year, he came back to the lake,...