Tag Archives: Tripoli Reading Group

Different meanings–same words

Posted on February 6, 2011 by prashant bhatt

As I sat with my friend and co-reader of “Tripoli Reading Group” Mohandas in the drizzle in Fornaaj on a Friday musing after a few brief  joint exercises the discussion went to the many meanings the same word means to … Continue reading →

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Reading clubs again

Posted on March 10, 2009 by prashant bhatt

Reading Groups in Tripoli..He beautifully wrote of the two slogans which the Khmer Rouge used –
“Power flows through the barrel of the gun”…and ‘You cannot make omellettes without breaking eggs’
What he saw in Cambodia, he had read in Calcutta, in the early seventies.Maoist rhetoric.
As one old Bengali friend, a sensitive human being, a keen photographer and teacher
-Tirtha Das Gupta (TDG) once told me, sipping tea in the School of Fototechnik at Bhogal Delhi,
“The Naxalite movement put the people’s movements back by decades” Continue reading →

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Enrich your life-By A Read a day

Posted on December 26, 2008 by prashant bhatt

    Reading clubs and discussion forums move on.   We have an informal reading club in Tripoli. This is an interesting exercise which one can undertake with a little effort, enriches life tremendously but does not require too much … Continue reading →

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