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and his name is Jack Sparrow
Everyone seems to have a take on the Nikhat Kazmi plagiarism incident, so I thought Id add my own two paise. Why is everyone so surprised by the Nikhat Kazmi incident? Over the last few years we’ve been looking at the foreign-movie reviews that appear weekly in our major (and minor) papers and we’ve never … Continue reading
Why? Because, owing to the bunch of things I have to do (read and edit book, write kids story, find work, other stuff) over the next week, I have just had to say no to a holiday in the Andamans. for an outlook traveller article. the andamans. gone. sob. this is divine vengeance for not … Continue reading
Much fun at panel discussion on bandhs. Everyone an industrialist except Tollywood leading man Arindam Sil, Jayabroto Chatterjee and me. and the dean of icfai business schools. there was no argument of note, but still contradicted everyone and had good time. got to make closing argument etc etc. for someone who hadnt noticed the bandhs … Continue reading
what should I do now?
“What I try and do is: 1) Finish it. 2) Put it away. Drawers are good. Don’t look at it for a week or so. 3) Read the whole thing, doing my best to pretend that I’ve never read it before. 4) Fix the big things. (These tend to be things that pop out at … Continue reading
Samit Basu 