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Voracious reader, vegetarian foodie, mostly armchair traveler, and frequent online shopper. I love to talk about all these passions (and other things happening in my life) in this blog.

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    Dubai, Food, Shopping, Travel09/28<01/10

    Chronicling the Busiest Weekend Ever

    The weekend before our travel to Dubai has got to go down as the most hectic ever in my life. There were so many…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Chills/Thrills/Spills, LGBTQIA09/26<08/25

    Killing Ashish Karve – A Riveting Indian Murder Mystery

    Killing Ashish Karve is a spine-chilling murder mystery which follows the adventures and exploits of Senior Inspector Saralkar. After a rather annoying week at…

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    K Posing with the Tiger
    Newspaper Reports, Tags, Thailand, Travel, Wordless Wednesdays09/24<08/13

    WW: Tiger Mauling Incident Dredges Up a Memory

    Early this week, this news article was all over the papers about that guy who fell into a tiger’s enclosure in New Delhi Zoo…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Tags, Teaser Tuesdays09/23<08/29

    Teaser Tuesdays: An Isolated Incident

    I don’t know what to say about this book. There are so many wonderful, wonderful snippets to share, this is just one of many,…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Chills/Thrills/Spills, Literary Fiction, Mailbox Mondays, Tags09/22<08/29

    Mailbox Mondays: September 22, 2014

    Welcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. Of late I’ve been very circumspect on the books for review…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Literary Fiction09/21<08/29

    An Isolated Incident – My #Diversiverse Reading Week

    I had originally planned to read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as part of Aarti’s wonderful September event A More Diverse Universe, as reading…

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    Dubai, Travel09/20<01/27

    Dubai Calling

    It’s been ages since we’ve gone on a proper family holiday. Sure, we have done the occasional trip to my family home in Chennai,…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Children's Classics, Chills/Thrills/Spills, Classics, Literary Fiction, Tags, Top Ten Tuesdays09/16<08/29

    Ten Authors I’ve Only Read One Book Of and Need to Read More

    Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list ten authors that I’ve only read one book from but…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Chick-lit09/12<08/29

    The Full Moon Bride

    What makes a marriage–love or compatibility? Passion or pragmatism? Bantwal’s compelling new novel explores the fascinating subject of arranged marriage, as a young Indian-American…

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    Life Updates09/10<12/21

    Onam Weekend – A Photo Diary

    Onam weekend was so hectic I didn’t know whether I was coming or going. We had so many things planned for the day, we…

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