Writers, October: Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam’s short story, Wild Flower, from The Little Mag: Angoori was the name of the very new wife of the very old servant of the neighbours of my […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
The BS column: English Vinglish
(Published in the Business Standard, October 2012) The annual birthday party for English is held on October 25, Thomas Babington Macaulay’s birth anniversary, and celebrating it might become a new […]
140-word fiction: Nine Lives
(Sunday Mid-Day asked for a cat story, in 140 words. Here it is.) My nine lives? I had a house, once, and Bigfeet of my own: then they packed everything, […]
Writers, October: A Ayyappan
From A Taste of Earth, found on Talent Share (http://talentshare.blogspot.in) ’I am the fever of the sun not cooled by moonlight. Remembering the rain, I become the butcher’s laughter.’ […]
Writers, October: Ismat Chughtai
The Lihaf trial, from The Journal of Urdu Studies: http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/15/28naqviExerpt.pdf ”There was a big crowd in the court. Several people had advised us to offer our apologies to the judge, even […]
The BS column: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
The Itinerary is a reminder of how old the bestseller is (Published in the Business Standard, October 23, 2012) Ludovico de Varthema set out to see the world in 1502, […]
Writers, October: Aravind Adiga
From ‘City of The White Tiger’, carried in Live Mint: The white tiger was locked up in the heart of the city, like the biggest secret in Delhi: like an […]
Blog post: What the Haryana Khaps could do
If the khaps can ban so much, let them ban rape I don’t know how many khap panchayats there are in India, but Haryana (and parts of Uttar Pradesh) in […]
The BS column: “Carve out my own heart”: Mo Yan
Mo Yan’s books speak louder than the writer’s public silence (Published in the Business Standard, October 16, 2012) If the task before a writer is to be a spokesman against […]
The BS column: A variety of absences
The boom in litfests, and what’s missing from Indian book culture (Published in the Business Standard, October 8, 2012) “Hyderabad, Kovalam, Shillong, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Bombay—two festivals—Chennai, plus Jaipur, plus […]
