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August 15, 2010 Riddle of the Seventh Stone Filed under: Books,Current Affairs — anilm @ 10:00 pm My friend Monideepa Sahu’s debut children’s novel: The Riddle of the Seventh Stone has just been released (Zubaan Books, India). Read it. Buy it. Gift it. Facebook it. Steal it (well, maybe not the last). Comments (0)	Recent Posts Naiyar Masud: The Storyteller of Lucknow What's on your mind, Anders Behring Breivik? The Octoclause of Doom Riddle of the Seventh Stone Rendezvous with Rama The Griffith Ramayana A Skeptic In The Temple Of Books The Speculative Ramayana Anthology Troubled Times At Ridgemont High Out, damn Sprout Anil Menon Archives April 2012 July 2011 February 2011 August 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 October 2009 August 2009 July 2009 April 2009 March 2009 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 February 2007 January 2007 September 2006 August 2006 May 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 Recommended Is math dirrty? Bhaskaracharya's Lilavati gets it right. Say, lovely woman, the number of bees: Bhaskara's Lilavati Reincarnation is one of those ideas that refuses to die. A review of Ian Stevenson's empirical studies. Review: 20 Cases Suggestive Of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson Stanislaw Lem, the incomparable author of The Cyberiad died on March 28, 2006. A cheeky tribute to our modern Aesop of the Machines. Stanislaw Lem: The Aesop Of Machines The cost of producing A. K. Ramanujan's Collected Essays was basically a lifetime of study. Book distributors seem unable to agree how they should price that effort. The Price Of An Indian Book A flog on Frits Staal's idea that linguistics had the same importance for the ancient Indians as geometry had for the ancient Greeks. People Of The Grammar Kolams are curvilinear shapes drawn by the women of Tamil Nadu (South India), usually very early in the morning and usually on the outer threshold of the house. Traditionally, rice powder is used to construct the figures. Among other things, kolams have fascinating relationships with the labyrinths of Crete, sona drawings of the Chockwe and picture grammars. I look at John Layard's theory of the kolam. Kolam: What The Hand Said Everything you wanted to know about the caste system (and then some). Caste is not the same thing as class or race. I argue that it's better to think of it as a "closure system" rather than a hierarchy. A closure system is ... what the heck, read the damn thing. Inspired by Christopher Alexander's essay: "A City Is Not A Tree." Caste, Closure & Contagion A paen to R. L. Goodstein's miraculous theorem in Proof theory. What's it about? The God of Small Things of course. The God of Small Things The Greatest Story In The World (under 500 words). A Perfect Tale Damn Good Blogs Ecstatic Days Hopelessly Optimistic Vandana Singh: Musings World SF Blog Subscribe via RSS Reader: Or, enter your email address Powered by FeedBlitz
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August 15, 2010

Riddle of the Seventh Stone