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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
By R K Narayan shared by Devika
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
(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,... Continue Reading →
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