Toss Up

by sepoy on March 4, 2009 · 6 comments

in imperial watch

Question: Why is the NYT op-ed space available only to 1. Western Journalists writing a book on Islam/South Asia or 2. Pakistani novelists writing a novel on Pakistan? Color me jealous.

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Huma March 4, 2009 at 2:04 pm

3. Current President/Prime Minister of the country.

P.S.: You’re not the only one who’s jealous.

2 elizabeth March 4, 2009 at 3:23 pm

answer: publicists.

3 Frandroid Atreides March 5, 2009 at 9:14 am

Pull a Ben Kingsley on the NYT?

4 sepoy March 5, 2009 at 9:36 am

I should impersonate a white man playing a brown man?

5 tsk March 5, 2009 at 5:57 pm

exactly. write as the dude oppressing the dude disguised as another dude. foolproof!

6 Nostalgic March 7, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Huma…

Completely off-topic, but…

Where can one find that pic… the one with the kitten? The bandbaja website doesn’t work anymore…

Curious fans would like to know…

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