AN Roy
AN Roy
Anami Narayan Roy was the Director General of Police, Maharashtra, India and the former Police Commissioner of Mumbai...
weed garden thinking
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.
father organization president
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
grind playing-around
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
arbitrary relation scholar
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
thanksgiving children santa
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
art creativity writing
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
lying thinking winning
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.
library cards thousand
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
drinking literature study
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
summer kids bird
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
should-have mind affair
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
literature temperature truth-is
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
oysters way died
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
running thinking people
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.