Kulin Shah: August 2017

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Culturevulture (PopKorn Press Book 67) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Culturevulture is a single word now

Perthlings and other delightful people come to the fore, as a culture-vulture, Sonyl, has always enjoyed his stays in homes and flats across India, Dubai, New Zealand, Thailand, Australia and around fifty countries around the world. This book explores the living arrangements and aspect as well as love and lusts of travel and includes working, playing and just being.

Route 66 Star (PopKorn Press) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

HIT THE ROAD JACK

Route 66 Stars is the 66th book that is essentially a collection of poems, which takes us to the southern tip of India, all the way into Trivandrum for a friend’s wedding. It has the usual drama, jealousies and action associated with youth and its wild ways. It’s a wedding ceremony captured in the most minimalistic language of a travel addict and in absence of a camera, the word pictures do weave a magical tale that starts with Murli’s wedding and has the usual exotic food, forbidden love and travel.

Ambar, Oscar and Minor (PopKorn Press Book 65) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Why it was not called Anand Society

When I asked the author that, he said that places like Wonder World, Lamour Library and Ambar Oscar were our bigger haunts as teenagers from Anand and Vishnu Baug.

Essentially a part of three book series of poems with working titles like Lamour Library and Sports Festival or Anand Bazaar, this is a book based on semi real incidences in what the poet calls “Glory Days” after Springsteen’s song.

The glory days are glory days of a bygone era and an era yet to come. This is where we grew, this is where we loved, we fought, we won, we lost. This is where we met Bintu, Jacintha, Kumar, Parag and we lost them to a kingdom beyond earth and we have them still in our hearts. We chased kites, we played Mendi coat, we evolved with fashions, films and Frankie. This is the story of Anand Society. These are our glory days.

Just two spoons of Malaysian moons

This book of poems is an eclectic kaleidoscope of different experiences in the various journeys of life and has a pinch of Malaysia besides the usual suspects: India and New Zealand. Malaysia wasn’t yet a third home for the author and thus has a very exotic and a very special feel. Meanwhile the adventures in Indian jungles and Auckland continue: business as usual.

64 pages in a rough book (PopKorn Press) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Rough book is a ritual during summer holidays in Bombay,that start from April onwards in the northern hemisphere. The extra blank sheets of paper from fair books are used to create a book bound in a pastel hardbound notebook and used as an elephant book to write everything. The all in one book. These poems are from the rough book or home work book of life. Because some of us never had a fair book. And the book is just like life because life is often more rough than fair.

Just two spoons of Malaysian moons (PopKorn Press Book 63) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

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of mice, mosquitoes and foxes in the night (PopKorn Press Book 61) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Capturing India’s paradox

Besides the culturally rich poetry about religion, demigods and trips all over India; there are the night shift poems at home, in the call centre and as technical writer, filled with mundane, self-deprecating humour and repetition and 4 am fights with night watchmen at Zycus Inc. On one of his “rescue missions” for mom, the author laughs at the paradox that personifies India, with a lot of tongue in cheek humour with imaginary mice and pigs. Any nocturnal creature will get the joke. The sleepless irritation increased by social drama..

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Sometimes reflections deceive you, sometimes your shadow misguides you

In life what needs to done is always done first. We are practical souls with emotional cores. Sometimes we wonder. In our rather catholic school, we had a retreat, to reflect and wonder. That is one meaning; the second can be reflection and knowing which is real and which is a mirage as often in life, your life passes before your eyes and you think. You reflect. These poems, though not sad (on the contrary rather funny) will make you think...

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A crossroad (PopKorn Press Book 60) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

A crossroad that I wish no one arrives at:

Like any other crossroads, this crossroad is filled with dilemmas and dualities; of love and hatred, of decisions, of life and death and amongst all this drama is peace, joy, fun and friendship and a mother that is constantly recovering and thus we travel; sometimes home – sometimes away: hopefully.

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desperado and paperbag princess (PopKorn Press Book 59) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Desperado, you better come to your senses

“It’s a book that starts, like most of his books at the bottom.” Yes, poetry follows a random order but this is linear and the only juxtapositioning is it starts at the end and goes backward if you want to read it as a life writing book. If you want to read it as separate poems start anywhere. It’s about friendships and a very fast life in Auckland as if I was on a quick break; having left mom, much better; fully recovered after 19 months in India and having returned for just two and a half months. The highlights are my friends: Justin, Justin and Daniel.

You been gone ridin' fences forever now
But, you're a hard one
And you must have your reasons
These things are pleasin' you now
But someday it will hurt you somehow

You better let some girl love ya
Lest it’s too late!

Aucklanders, Rebel Poets and Reading on Escalators (PopKorn Press Book 58) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Prequel to 343
Before I started my poetry course, after my summer school of my first taste of creative writing
under Avia and Johnson, and a chance meeting with my future teacher Michelle; I had to go
through the jungle of my final assignment and I was in love with my marker. She was a classy
Chilean lady and having just arrived back after five months in India and since essay was due in
a week; yes I love the last minute adrenaline action, I was camped for a couple of nights in the
computer centre, alternating between Epsom and Eden. Eating apples!

Bombay - Kuala Lumpur - Auckland (PopKorn Press Book 57) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

THE LIGHT, THE TEARS: THE BOYHOOD YEARS

It was a time when I had returned to Auckland not knowing that I will never see mom again. Out of last 36 months I was in Bombay for 27 and mom was relatively, in fact much better and I was back flying out of Bombay into Malaysia and on to Auckland. These are memoirs that Daniel Goh said I shouldn’t be writing as I had a huge teaching degree assignment to finish. Poetry got hold of me and the haunting, the frenzy, the magic, the passion and the love never left. Mom lived for 40 happy months and was unwell in the last two…this is those in between months when I was in Bombay and I return, the next two sequels will project my Bombay and previous Auckland life. It was culturally most satisfying living in different and anthropologically most satisfying.

56 Inglis Street (PopKorn Press) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

The Doggy Diaries
In winter of 2012 I was entrusted the sensitive job of taking care of Luka, the friendliest Labbie
in the southern hemisphere. This book will keep you informed about Luka's how-abouts in
August and September of 2012. Watch this space for dancing and general news and well-being
of the little seaweed muncher who is not allowed into debris and garbage from this day forth. It's
gonna be a fun winter with Animal Planet and carrots.

Art, Buddha & A Mom that was dying (PopKorn Press Book 6) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Love, friendships, comic books arts, Buddhahood in the shadow of death

These are essentially a set of Wellington poems that is dedicated to chanting Namyohorengekyo and whilst it is based in Japanese Buddhism, it also tells a story about a mother, a family philosophy, art, love history, friendships, crushes and tooth brushes, religion and comic books, life and death. It’s the sixth book, fifth published on kindle and is a chunk of life and very, very fresh.

Savage and the Princess (Popkorn Press) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Oh the dark, dark fatalistic love stories of all times
This book has everything: passion, poem, true love, travel, hatred, blood, feud and death. And it has two people fighting destiny to love each other, against all odds.
It has influences of Wuthering Heights’ dark romance, a bit of Phantom comic locale, a bit of Lord Ullin’s daughter, some pirates of the Caribbean and the rhythm has Tennyson.
Savage and the princess was written in six weeks and is a ballad. A Ballad tells a story, in poetic form and is often set to music and played through centuries as songs. This is a slightly more modern ballad than the dark ages it is set in. However, there is lot of internal rhyme. A ballad is, more often than not, a love story. This is a love story.
This is a dark love stories between two people that King, Destiny and God forbade to love. The author mentions it was a premonition and thus everything he wrote happened exactly as the story in the poem. It was as if destiny was writing.

Wilderness: Love, Lyrics and Leopards (PopKorn Press Book 3) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Night at wild cat swamp

If you love tigers or leopards or lynx or any of the cats including Garfield, Hobbes and Heathcliff and if you love poetry, art and love, you will love this book. It is naughty, nice, wild and sanguine and these poems are Wordsworth Byron and Danielle Steele; even the way the little art pieces are sprayed like salt and pepper are fun. Do read. Even as a glimpse. It's a pure world of love, poetry and animals

Snakes, Cows & Avocado Sandwiches (PopKorn Press Book 2) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Written as a creative writing master’s project immediately after a mother’s death
Mostly set in New Zealand and India; Snakes, Cows and Avocado Sandwiches is a collection of short stories and poems that ambitiously tries to be one single book. It succeeds because it is interesting as a saga of a family from 1940s to 2010. It is a eulogy to the mom, a life writing exercise with travel writing, fiction, vignettes, prose poems and even a vague shadow of a novel thrown in. Curiously embroidered with a host of short pieces, it tries to break the density as it is written for the modern day fast-food, 16GB-Ram generation. It is a story of an immigrant in New Zealand, struggling to, keep his mom alive, find joy and above all, survive.
The book explores diverse themes, as it probes into the magical realism of ghosts and dreams, negotiates with the dead, understands how writing is a form of narrative therapy, stretches the English language, relates the immigrant experience and is a narrative on Snakes, Cows and Avocado Sandwiches, which is, a collection of short stories and poems inspired a mother’s life and written after her death.
The stories begin in Ahmedabad, which, besides being the birthplace of the mother, is also the birthplace of cultural roots, religious beliefs and traditional mores.
The backdrop of ghosts, dreams and the immigrant experience in New Zealand help the author embrace his warrior past, and use it to overcome petty racism and ignorance.
‘The book is filled with foreign words and has a glossary on the last pages. Not all stories have a clear-cut sequel, like ‘Yellow Tails’, that ends as a slice of life story followed by the poem ‘A Fish called Karma’. The individual stories do finally come together in ‘Letters to Mom’.
The immigrant experience continues in ‘Mana’, ‘Mangere’, ‘Manurewa’, as it does in ‘Yellow Tails’, ‘Ode to Winston Peters’, the black and white dog poem, and other poems like ‘Fish called Karma’, ‘Green bird’, and concludes at ‘Cloudy’.

2 Cups of Mint Tea (PopKorn Press Book 1) Kindle Edition by Sonyl Varma (Author)

Hopeless romantic love, nostalgic childhood memories and a world on the brink

The first thing one searches for in a poetry collection are paintings. Words make the best paintings. In that regard, there are a lot of prose paintings in this collection of rather post-modern poems. Initially written for facebook, this is as modern as a selfie and then there is the love of nature, greenery, love, Thailand, London, Sydney, New Zealand and India in a city that was called Bombay, now Mumbai. It has everything from big leaves to hopeless romantic poetry to death, modernism, travel, adventure, a bit of Jack Sparrow and a slice of Archie’s Riverdale and a chunk of politically correct education and terrorism. There is no tea and yet it is a refreshing read. It may be a suggestion. Read this and have tea, add mint in it and smile. This are feel good poems despite everything and thus, this is how one should enjoy reading them.
It talks of climate change (and the human chain) as we also live in a world that is fast, unromantic, hassled, terrorized and constantly drifting apart: both ecologically and socially. Thus there is Silfra; It is about that drift. Silfra being the spot where North America and Europe meet and it's both volatile and beautiful and, its drifting apart 2 cms at a time. Like our lives.
Nights and shadows deals with love and false pride in this post-modern, lonely, selfie twitter-tarnished generation. More love follows in Sydney: nostalgia in splash and storms. Arming monkeys is about the current education system, Rob's green finger is based on Frost's poem, as Shelley’s London is based on Shelley. More love flows in twilight. Rights discusses match fixing, ball tampering and cheating in sports. Hat Yai deals with visa runs in this global village that we helter-skelter in. Childhood memories line blue skies whereas, Jazz in Ponsonby is based on loving a girl suffering from depression. Finally love and school days are back in the snail and firefly poems.
The hopeless romantic start sets up this collection of what is surely the literary equivalent of two cups of mint tea.

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