tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:44:47 +0000A ReviewB2B: Our Fleet St. Days (Kini-Krishnan).Blog MagicCheryl BraganzaChronic Fatigue and treatmentIndia nowMr.Chandra in Fleet StreetName DroppingReturn of the NativeOf friends, people and places and a rambling account of my own life.http://asia-major.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ken)Blogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-6692973454414852357Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:50:00 +00002011-09-23T17:49:03.366+01:00 Books on Buddhism and Hindu Puranas A unique and rare collection of theoretical and practical Buddhism by leading scholars like Edward Conze and Lama Anagarika Govinda and&nbsp; scholarly translations, -&nbsp;nearly 400books. Also a complete set of Hindu Puranas; a tale of birth and life story of Vishnu&nbsp; in various Avatars. Hardback collectors item. See listing at Amazon.com - more to http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2011/09/books-on-buddhism-and-hindu-puranas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kriskin)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-2506520136949292811Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:15:00 +00002017-02-09T19:34:48.306+00:00Cheryl Braganza . I have been blogging about mid 1960s when I arrived in England after an arduous sometimes frightening hitch-hiking journey by road from India. One of the friendships of that era I remember and cherish was with the gifted poet and painter Cheryl Braganza at Onslow Gardens in South Kensington. I remember her as a petite and beautiful young lady with an exotic background. Born and brought up in http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2006/12/sorry-i-have-been-late-in-posting-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-8277285742759567660Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:04:00 +00002013-07-09T11:04:01.393+01:00 My dear friend Anil Saari Arora, an eminent Cine-theorist, cine-critic in India died after a 6 month of unbearable suffering with stomach cancer in October 2005. He and I kept up a correspondence using e-mail and he presented me with his latest output of poetry which was prolific and ranged from trite to sublime Here is the obituary &amp; an appreciation which I wrote about him, and was http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2006/12/remembering-anil-saari.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-1009694917113245065Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:03:00 +00002013-07-09T11:04:29.695+01:00A Review I was asked to review a first novel by my dear friend Rashme Sehgal, Hacks &amp; Headlines. It is no accident she was married to my dearest friend Anil Saari. Rashme started her career in the 1970s as a poet and short story writer. She moved to journalism and went on to work for several leading Newspapers including The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times of India. Some of the landmark events http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2006/12/hacks-and-headlines-novel-by-rashme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-4152544295860284121Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:45:00 +00002010-07-25T14:49:23.427+01:00Chronic Fatigue and treatmentI have not been deliberately slow in adding to my blog. I suffer bitterly from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and have been unable to maintain my blog. Some of my time has been taken up by building a new website appropriately called www.asia-major.com and ultimate one stop resource centre on all things Indian. Wait and you will not be disappointed. Meanwhile if anyone has experience of CFS as an http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-have-not-been-deliberately-slow-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-7322584599284756696Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:30:00 +00002013-07-09T11:04:50.979+01:00India now I was born in India but have lived in England for the past 42 years, having travelled here by road with no money in my pocket, and had a biblical finish in Paris on the 40th day. All I want to do is share my feelings for India with you out there - and give you rich links to the world that is contemporary India: tourism, Hotels, history and so on. I will provide a rich links to all manners of http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-love-india.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-5239704090540506152Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:34:00 +00002007-02-15T13:38:23.487+00:00Name DroppingName dropping on Friends: Chagall, Kandinsky, Laxman Pai, K.S. Kulkarni and V.S.GVK ,. You refer to a lot of Coffee house friends including V.S, the painter. You made me reminisce even more about my year or so in Delhi as a reporter. I met V.S and a multitude of aspiring painters most of whom avoided the Coffee House but gathered in a dark carnivorous (not cavernous) upstairs cafe called I think http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/02/name-dropping-on-friends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-4010576857208030205Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:24:00 +00002007-03-03T10:25:51.088+00:00Return of the NativeMy friend GVK has finished his response in B2B with K : My indebtedness, to Satish, Subash with several intriguing questions unanswered. GVK what did you think of the 60s renaissance? Did you feel a part of it? Did it excite you? Did you sense a new cultural and political paradigm shift in the mid sixties <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />England? The second question is why did you leave England andhttp://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-did-you-return-to-india.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-1721257984254377291Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:00:00 +00002007-01-30T12:03:27.753+00:00Blog MagicThe Sixties: A New Renaissance GVK is well ahead of me in our B2B dialogue. I lack his skills honed over 4 decades and moreover my state of health is like a dried up well with no resources left to use. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a punishing illness, and sadly it is a collective term for a group of symptoms and not a diagnosis in itself. GVK is right about the power of blogging. I can well http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/sixties-new-renaissance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-8220396592330734734Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:58:00 +00002007-01-27T12:31:53.405+00:00Mr.Chandra in Fleet StreetWhat a deft portrait that my friend GVK has drawn of Shroff Saab who could be a great character in a Naipaul or even better a Prawer Jhabawala story, a person beached and stranded like a whale which lost its way. I must confess that I have the vaguest memories of this phantasmagorical character and it could not have been me who told GVK in Chennai in 1996 of Shroff Saab’s passing away. We methttp://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/remembering-mr-chandra-in-fleet-street.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-548147164298862814Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:50:00 +00002007-01-25T09:29:17.174+00:00B2B: Our Fleet St. Days (Kini-Krishnan).B2B: Our Fleet St. DaysRecalling our days of friendship and collaboration in the mid sixties London, GVK forgot to mention that India Weekly brought out by a media oligarch Dr, Tarapada Basu (an avuncular manipulator of human resources) was sited in the famous Fleet street. I am grateful for the fact that I arrived and worked in the legendary street when it was still thriving. I recall that http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/b2b-our-fleet-st-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-6743745564604636317Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:09:00 +00002007-01-24T09:14:48.483+00:00My friend GVK has obviously thought he needs to encourage me out of my sloth and commence our Blog to Blog chat and has done a interesting piece at Desicritics Blogging it out with my frind Kini - He has no need to be contrite about not answering my annual round robin New Year Greetings. I an happy enough that blogging has reconnected us. I am a believer in friendships however or whenever http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/further-chat-at-desicritics-from-gvk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-5183773901925751194Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:07:00 +00002016-04-15T15:11:17.645+01:00 My friend GVK has kindly responded to my posting about our days in the 1960s London, inviting me to enter in to a Blog to Blog (B2B) chat, and inspite of my illness, I have decided to engage. Here is what he says: January 20, 2007 A blog-to-blog chat with my friend Kini My UK- based friend Kini,T R, has said some nice things about me in his blog. This is my pay-back piece. This way, hehttp://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/gvk-responds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3802146663729716499.post-6416715953698818545Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:11:00 +00002007-01-20T11:16:24.210+00:00What better way to spend your retirement than write your own blog from your own blogsite? My old friend GVKrishnan, now settled in Mysore does it with a difference at his blogsite http://mymysore3.blogspot.com/ - I am envious of his prolific output and his engaging no-nonsense outspoken analysis of socio-political issues in India. There is a real treasure trove of his work on his blogsite http://asia-major.blogspot.com/2007/01/gvkrishnan-my-gifted-friend-his.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ken)1