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An Evening of Journeys

Its getting hot enough to start dreaming of cooler places and better times! Come by for an evening that will transport you to far off places and little known worlds. Attend the Mughal court at The Red Fort and hop onto the traditional palanquins to visit bustling market places and moon lit Yamuna, stop by [...]

Unusual Library Exhibits

Some of your may have caught the news about the exhibit of archival materials from Salman Rushdie at the Emory University Library. Display includes his four Apple laptops (one ruined by spilled coke) and several hand written journals. Incidentally, its not the hand written notes but all the digital stuff that’s giving archivists nightmares. With [...]

Alice in Underland

Returning once more to yer olde topic of books into movies, Tim Burton has done it again. He took the classic and turned it around a few times clockwise, then anti clockwise, up-side down and inside out. To help him with these imaginary acrobatics was his trusted player Johnny Depp. To quote Carroll “What is [...]