On 10/13/07, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >About our book club.. It's called Varnika. Varnika is a Sanskrit > >word for "writer". > > varnan / varnana means description doesn't it? so literally speaking > "Varnika" becomes someone who describes, a 'descriptor'. > interesting to see the writer as a 'thick descriptor' > but also the word 'describe' has already the writer or the 'scribe' inside it > > you chanced upon the word varnika, or was it part of your general > sanskrit memory, or did you remember a specific usage of the word in > some sanskrit texts?
And Abhi SHEK...also note the root, "varna", meaning colour..the "varnana" or description is, actually, "adding colour" to the facts and making them a narrative! It's also fascinating to see that some compositions in Carnatic music are called "varnam", because they delineate the "colour" of the raga they illustrate. And the word for :gold, "suvarna" is..."good colour"...! Thought you, as an artist, would like that! Deepa. > > > On 10/12/07, sandhya_san <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I do have an outline for a book on technical communications that > > I'll write sometime in life, but not right now... Right now, I'm > > working on fiction. :) > > > > About our book club.. It's called Varnika. Varnika is a Sanskrit > > word for "writer". We read any kind of book or genre that anyone is > > interested in , really. We've met once to discuss Kiran Desai's "The > > Inheritance of Loss,". We plan to meet again with our favourite > > P.G.Wodehouse book just because we all like PGW. :) We have a small > > mailing list where we can post anything related to books--reviews, > > book readings, even writing. > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Abhishek Hazra" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >I run a small and exceedingly infrequent book club and am > > struggling > > > >to write my first book > > > > > > hewlo. > > > welcome to silk (though i too remain mostly in lurk mode) > > > whats your book on? technical (on documentation) or otherwise? > > > also, what kind of books is your book club interested in? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > does the frog know it has a latin name? > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >
