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Hobson-Jobson

Recently I bought a copy of the British-Raj-era classic reference book Hobson-Jobson. I was at dinner with my friend Pranav (who makes great videos that combine history and trivia with cooking, such as this one), and we were discussing favourite dictionaries (because, as I was telling him, K thinks it’

January 2025 Round-Up

In January, I read 3 prose books, 1 play, 5 comics, watched 13 movies (including 2 short films), and 2 seasons of television. The dearth of movies and tv are explicable – I have to be out of the house a lot these days, and I refuse to watch anything more

Reading & Film Round-Up July-November

I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year. To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some