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Met William Dalrymple at Rana’s party on Friday; Rana was obviously there too, so we had a Tehelka reunion, with Ruchir Joshi as honorary member. WD laughs uproariously, dances enthusiastically and reads this blog! Rana’s party was probably one of the Events of the Season – the only one I scored an invite for, anyway … Continue reading
From The Dreaming no. 52, by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Vertigo
Hermits sometimes hear news before other people do. So here are some future books-page items related to Indian blogging: Leading online journalist signed up by leading publisher to write book about phenomenon of Indian blogging, and leading Indian blogger shortly to be signed up by leading publisher to write fiction version of leading blog. Cheers … Continue reading
Grass for his PillowBook 2 of the Tales of the Otori TrilogyLian Hearn Brilliance of the MoonBook 3 of the Tales of the Otori TrilogyLian Hearn The Tales of the Otori trilogy, beginning with the widely acclaimed Across the Nightingale Floor (2002) transported readers across the world to an imaginary medieval Japan torn apart by … Continue reading
This site shivered me timbers. mateys. Translate yer blog t’ piratespeak. More grog, wench!
This post is to let readers know that despite what they might have heard, I am not, repeat not, a duck. What, then, is the Duck of Destiny? I cannot reveal that at this time. However, it is quite possible that the Duck of Destiny is a McGuffin.
Four years after our soul-stirring performance at Seagull bookstore, Cal, Arjun finally managed to scan a few pictures and send them. Am posting one from the rehearsals – Vijay practising General Melchett while Ratnabali (Blackadder) me (George) and Arjun (Baldrick) look on proudly and one of Arjun and Arpita from the Monty Python sketch where … Continue reading
“My brain has been sludge since then.” this is from eM’s meme tag (pick out 5th sentence of 23rd post) there was also the 55 word story one, but I’m not doing that for free:)
Spanish world rights sold! to Pearson Educacion.
…this is like finding out the football world cup is on when the semis have started. Go here, and vote now.
Samit Basu 