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  Sunday Reading for Post-Partitioners

  08.12.07 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Ah, the second week in August, when every wizened old editor’s attention turns to the “Partition of 1947″. Thoughtful pieces are commissioned on the violence of Partition, the communalism that brought about the horrible violence of Partition and the horrendous culpability of the British in bringing about the terrible violence of Partition (to add some [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Smarty Pants

  07.15.07 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Watched Transformers and found it all too snickerworthy. I just don’t know how one can keep a straight face at the slo-mo shots, the flybys and the military hardware droolfest - especially after that brilliant sendup of Bay done in Hot Fuzz. I won’t say I had high hopes but I was really looking forward [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Bloomers

  06.17.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  It is really hot out there; the White Sox are in a really bad shape; there is too much test cricket; Lahore is literally melting in 110 degree heat; after an initial good batch, the Marathon mangos are letting me down; my friends are intent on rubbing it in my face; I would like to [...]

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  Chapati Review: Two Graphic Novels by Sarnath Banerjee

  06.08.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers (Penguin India, 2007), Rs. 395
  Corridor (Penguin India, 2004), $13.00
  by Sarnath Banerjee
  Many moons ago Sepoy posted about the forthcoming ‘first ever’ graphic novel from India, Corridor, by Sarnath Banerjee. I picked up Corridor in Delhi a few years ago and recently learned that Banerjee had a new ’second ever’ graphic [...]

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  Persepolis Hits the Red Carpet

  05.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just what we’ve all been waiting for: the animated version of Persepolis is being screened at Cannes this week, and that means it should get a general release later this year. There are some great trailers on Satrapi’s MySpace page that include some pretty sweet air guitar and “Eye of the Tiger” renderings by the [...]

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  Chapati Review: Four Books by Etgar Keret

  05.21.07 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories (Toby Press, 2004), $12.95.
  Jetlag (Toby Press, 2006), $12.95.
  The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), $12.00.
  Pizzeria Kamikaze (Alternative Comics, 2006), $14.95.
  It’s one of those days when you find yourself in a new part of town with an hour to kill, and you decide you [...]

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  Funda Name

  04.30.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “(Our hero’s name gets no points for subtlety either.)” - Karen Olsson reviews Mohsin Hamid’s book starring a young Pakistani man named Changez.

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  Return of the White Rabbit

  04.28.07 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  A response by William Dalrymple
  Manan just looked through the amazingly long discussion your review provoked- very flattering to see people engaging with the book. A few small points, and please feel free to post any of this that you want to:
  1. Re your comment:
  There is plenty to call Dalrymple on -
  1. The selling of 1857 [...]

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  1857 and Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal

  04.21.07 | Permalink | 47 Comments

  There is an obvious point that can be made about contestations over the meaning of 1857’s Ghadr [Rebellion] in history and memory of South Asia by simply listing the various terms attached to that event: Sepoy’s Mutiny or Rebellion, First War for Independence, The War/Rebellion of India, Jihad for Freedom, and most recently, The Uprising. [...]

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  Unfinished Symphony

  04.11.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  As part of the Year End Clearance®, below are posts that I started at some point in last year, never finished, and will never finish. I would like them to stop haunting my Write tab - so I am deleting these half-finished, half-started thoughts and giving them a public burial. Below are the dates, topic [...]