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Was part of the audience for an NDTV show last night where three young MPs, Deepender Hooda, Kalikesh Singh Deo and Manicka Tagore were fielding questions from an audience of students about what it meant to be young and in Parliament. These guys are young, smart, camera-friendly and clearly capable of so much. Wonder what [...]
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Date:
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Time:
7:00pm
Location:
Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre
Do come. And bring your friends. There’ll be a short video thingie where I talk about my influences, a quick reading, a discussion with the mighty Nilanjana S. Roy, and drunksdrinks.
Will post about other events when dates and times are confirmed. Calcutta is Jan 22 at Crossword, more [...]
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Final update: Transcript. Though is it a transcript if its from a chat session?
Further update: We done. Here are a few of my favourite questions.
Dickiannn All your base are belongs to us
Anamika
Saran how long the IT industry will be there in India?
Stranger why there is always magnet be attracted in North and south pole? [...]
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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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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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Will be doing a Q+A session with Sarnath Banerjee on the 5th of March in Cal, at the launch of The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers. Do come. It’s at the British Council, and I dont know what the time is yet; usually these things are at about 7. Not sure if you need passes, [...]
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is happening tomorrow, details here.
Will try and make it, but am currently wrestling with a deadline, so not sure I can. If I finish by tomorrow evening, will be there.
This post is also a plug for shareaplan.com, an events/friends/networking site set up by the blogosphere’s very own, very glamorous Bridalbeer. More details about the blogmeet [...]
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Will be reading this at the Metrospective event tomorrow. Jeet Thayil, Samrat Chowdhury and Vivek Narayanan will also be reading. So I guess I shouldn’t have posted it today, but I had fun writing it, and coudn’t resist. See you if you’re there.
A Hymn to New Him
(by Samit Basu, with apologies to Alan Jay Lerner)
What [...]
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Hearken, lowly mortals! Specifically, writer/aspiring-writer type lowly mortals in Calcutta! Thus spake the mighty Zig
Caferati is (finally!) getting an active local chapter going in Cal.
The details for the first first read-meet are up at
http://www.ryze.com/ed.a?eventid=27759.
The basics:
Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:30 pm
The Calcutta Punjab Club
21, Ballygunge Circular Road
The two people who are doing the hard work getting [...]
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