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A mirror, and two strong women who lived two centuries apart.
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From my ten years of residence in Borneo!
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Saint Richard Parker
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A Dowryless Wedding
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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Southeast Asia
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Ethnobotany of the Kondh, Poraja, Gadaba and Bonda of the Koraput Region of Odisha, India
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Ode to Dr. Oli
Those who know my split personality would recognise that grumpy half of mine under the academic hat. The University for which I work has well-behaved students—well behaved to an extent that the corridors could be eerily silent. Climbing up the stairs next to the elevator, I often wish that the corridors had some life—the chatters, cacophony, and thud-thud of footsteps expected from an academic ins Read more of this blog post »
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"This hilarious novel is cross-genre satire that ticks all boxes. It is a political satire and a travel satire with good doses of magical realism. It is also a self discovery with a poignant climax."
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"Richard Parker took me on a dizzying trip to southeast Asia. It is predictable with every episode ending in a mishap.
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"Satirical, spiritual, and magical
I knew this is a humorous satire even before I downloaded it. But didn't expect it to be deeply spiritual too. Richard's conversations with Osho Rajneesh (Bhagwan) are so profound. The author is mischievous in leaving" Read more of this review » |
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"A hilarious and thought-provoking read. When White people travel to Southeast Asia, they experience positive discrimination due to White fever. Thus, most of the romantic and mesmerizing experiences described by White travel writers are not available"
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Amanda, what could I do to make you read this? I promise you this is not a rom-com!
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The thing that makes you most Sri Lankan is not your father’s surname or the holy place where you kneel, nor the smile you plaster on your face to hide your fears. It is the knowing of other Lankans and the knowing of those Lankans’ Lankans.
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Lankans can’t queue. Unless you define a queue as an amorphous curve with multiple entry points.
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“The most beautiful things in life are unassuming and simple to begin with.”
― A Dowryless Wedding
― A Dowryless Wedding
“If you had closed your eyes and looked inward, you would have seen me; you would have seen us. We have always been inseparable, like night and day, light and dark, flowers and fruits, and spirituality and sexuality.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Buccal list: A list of food a person has never tried before but wants to taste during their lifetime.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“If you had closed your eyes and looked inward, you would have seen me; you would have seen us. We have always been inseparable, like night and day, light and dark, flowers and fruits, and spirituality and sexuality.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Swim, crawl, stagger, walk, bend, stagger and gone – that’s life in simple terms, and all that matters here is how well we fought.”
― A Dowryless Wedding
― A Dowryless Wedding
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