The Week is now my favourite magazine. There was the Indian fantasy thing, and now my bit in this week’s cover story on emerging Indians will explain why.
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Falling Forest Trees.
Posted on July 24, 2007 by Samit Basu
Cover story on Indian fantasy in The Week. National newsmagazine, people. Walls, writing on . See, now we actually exist.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: HT review
Posted on July 21, 2007 by Samit Basu
I read my first Harry Potter book in 1998 on a crowded bus in Calcutta; this was at a time when Pottermania hadn’t risen to rival Beatlemania at its most insane, in a place where you didn’t have to bother with things like adult covers because people were far too busy keeping their faces out [...]
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Free HP7s
Posted on July 18, 2007 by Samit Basu
Heading my way. Hehhehe! Lijjat Papad!
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Up, up, away, etc.
Posted on July 17, 2007 by Samit Basu
Was in Cal last weekend, where the Superhero! launch went very well; there were people behind the people who were standing because the chairs were full, one superhero-costumed kid, one baby, several Young Journalist types and later there was a dinner with many, many school principals which ended, predictable, with the authors clustered around the [...]
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In a cottage cheese cottage
Posted on July 9, 2007 by Samit Basu
You’ve probably seen them before. But in case you haven’t, and I hadn’t before the sage Aishwarya brought them into my life a few days ago…ladies and gentlemen, may I proudly present…Flight of the Conchords.
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Rocket launch
Posted on July 8, 2007 by Samit Basu
Yesterday evening, Indrajit Hazra, Anita Roy and I read from our stories at the launch of Superhero, a collection of short stories from Scholastic. Nilanjana S. Roy moderated the discussion in style, at one point even leaving the stage to conduct a ground-level investigation into the hearts and minds of costumed children, one of whom, [...]
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