Words and wordsmiths: Holding on

Your suffering is the pain of holding onto that which no longer serves you.

-- Kahlil Gibran

I hope to get to these

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
The Stranger in the Mirror - Jane Shilling
The Ambassador's Club: Indian Diplomats at Large - ed. K V Rajan
Daughters of Independence - J.Liddle and R.Joshi
Annals of the Parish - John Galt
Arthshashtra - Kautilya
The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
Behind The Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors - Roddy Doyle
KORA: stories and poems - Tenzin Tsundue
And All Is Said - Zareer Masani
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of food during wartime by the world's leading journalists - ed. Matt Macallester
I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale - Khushwant Singh
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
On Death - John Donne
Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos - Brett Dakin
From Heaven Lake - Vikram Seth
Among The Believers - V S Naipaul
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Agnostic Khushwant - Khushwant Singh
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
India: A Wounded Civilization - V S Naipaul
Delhi Then and Now - Dilip Bose, Narayani Gupta
The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook - Alice B. Toklas, Francis Rose
Broken Republic - Arundhati Roy
An Area of Darkness - V S Naipaul
Sita's Ramayana - Samhita Arni, Moyna Chitrakar
Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
Breakfast With Socrates - Robert Rowland Smith
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Pregnant King - Devdutt Pattanaik
The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West - Dorothy Wickenden
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
Always Rachel - Rachel Carson, Dorothy Freeman
Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life - Bettany Hughes
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Narrative of John Smith - Arthur Conan Doyle
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management - Isabella Beeton
The Angel Esmeralda - Don DeLillo

Words and wordsmiths

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Holding on

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