1. Rule no#1 of literature mela-hopping -- Never sit on a moodha ahead of William Dalrymple if you are unsure of your shirt's length.
2. Mahmood Farooqui sounds disconcertingly anachronistic when he talks history in English.
3. Karan Thapar has to be the Mahmood Farooqui of modern dastangoi.
4. J M Coetzee looks like your average neighbourhood literary recluse when you almost bump into him.
5. Gandhi WAS delusional, if Alex said he was.
6. In lit fests, well-dressed Sainik-Farmers look best when they keep their glares on and mouths shut.
7. Somewhere between Devanand and Doga the Princeton historian made a Patania feel very proud.
2. Mahmood Farooqui sounds disconcertingly anachronistic when he talks history in English.
3. Karan Thapar has to be the Mahmood Farooqui of modern dastangoi.
4. J M Coetzee looks like your average neighbourhood literary recluse when you almost bump into him.
5. Gandhi WAS delusional, if Alex said he was.
6. In lit fests, well-dressed Sainik-Farmers look best when they keep their glares on and mouths shut.
7. Somewhere between Devanand and Doga the Princeton historian made a Patania feel very proud.
4 comments:
#7 is a gem!(if i got it correct, that is)
Had meant to edit the post to explain the context of each of the statement but it seems I'm rather late. The historian in question is Gyan Prakash who was talking about his (brilliant, in my opinion,) book on Bombay. He talked about Devanand's hairstyle being more than just a fashion thing to a generation of young men, and about Doga, a comicbook superhero that I love, while trying to explain his understanding and perception of the city. Listen to him was definitely on of the high points of my Jaipur Lit Fest visit.
He was talking about Bombay or Patna? (on a separate note, did u know that anurag kashyap is making a movie on doga, with kunal kapoor in the lead)
so, is it that your new blog format and headlines be construed as your latest blog entries?!
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