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Updates:
- Regret to inform all concerned that T R Kini, architect of this blog (previously asia-major.com) passed away on 4th of this May 2018 in Kent, UK, after a long illness. He was 76. Some of his articles have been featured here below. Mostly isolated from his old social network, he attempted another blog, his CFS chronicles which however, remained truncated. The last couple of years saw him delve into his past to keep company.
- Short Stories by Julianna Struthers who challenges herself “to write a short story every week for a year” and wins! Here is a link to the Stories.
- It is with immense sadness that I received news that one of my old friends and contributor to these pages, Cheryl Braganza passed away in Dec 2016.I blogged about Cheryl Braganza in Oct.2007, and it is only fitting that I quote her Obituary by her son, in our pages, here.
- A treasure trove of Poetry reading done in early 1970s rediscovered. “Those were the Days in Greenwich”
- We will be featuring articles by famed Indian ‘environmentalist’ journo Darryl D’Monte.
- Farrukh Dhondi’s column: We feature some of his contributions to journals and newspapers.
- Adil Jussawalla‘s collection of poems ‘Trying to Say Goodbye‘ is conferred the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 along with seven others.
Contributions:
Part I – The Journey begins
Part II – Facing No Man’s Land – End of the Journey?
Part III – End of an Era for India or A tryst with Destiny?
Part IV – Wrath of Mount Ararat
Part V – Manna from Heaven
Part VI – Hobson’s Choice
Part VII – Dreaming History
Part VIII – Bohemian Interlude
Part IX – Italian Odessey
Part X – Down and Out in Paris and London
Part XI – Journey’s End
- London Letters
- A visit to Florence and Venice
- A Visit to Oxford
- Ambedkar
- Anil Saari ‘s Work as a poet
- Asian Media in The UK
- Balraj Khanna – Indian Painter in the UK
- Bandit Queen
- BBC World service
- Buddhism in the West
- Curries in the West
- Domingo – A Spanish Interlude
- Gunesekhere – an Assessment of the Booker short list
- Kalighat Paintings
- Mukul Kesavan’s first novel
- Oriental Club – a very British institution
- Peter Shore: Politics of Compassion
- Rashme Sehgal’s Novel : Hacks & Headlines
- Return of the Native: story of Ian
- Shankar Menon Marath – an assesment of the novelist
- The Great Flood
- Writers of the Indian Diaspora
- Chakravyuha
- Sea Breeze and other Poems
- Evening on a Mountain and other Poems
- Souza – A Bitter Parting
- On his Father, Dr. Jehangir Jussawalla
- On his Mother, Mehera Jussawalla – ‘A Life presumed Lost’
- On his poet/painter/filmmaker friend Dilip Chitre in online mag ‘Timeout Mumbai’
- Some more of Adil’s recent poems can be read here.
- Strays – an unfinished novel
- Charles Correa: The architect whose heart beat for Mumbai ‒ ‘a wonderful city, terrible place’
- “Only Goodbyes” A Collection of poems
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- Archive of Events:
- Drifting on a High Tide
- Bards on the Run
- Dom Moraes – the Urbane Minstrel
- The Wayfarer of ‘Wayside Inn’
- Poems-1.
- Gifts
- Moving Out
- Personal Effects
- Poems-2.
- Exotica
- Peacock
- Domestic Creatures
- Poems-3
- Stills from Baga Beach
- The Old Printer
- Recipe
- Jackfruit
- Poems – 4
- The Hyenas
- Fireflies
- Poems – 5
- Dialogue with a Child
- Jigsaw
- Poems – 6
- Rumour
- Anniversary Poem
- With the children gone
- Poems – 7
- Born Still
- Carried Forward

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