Kaush’s Random Notes has very nice package of everything Jhumpa in one place. I trust it is worth reading through. Just before your visit Jhumpa at her October 23 reading in Manhattan, thanks to SAJA
Here are some of here reviews and profiles by the way
NYT reviews: here, here and here
Washington Post: here
Older SawNet profile and links: here
I love this post – why because it captures the truth about Indian media scene quite succinctly.
Some mischevious reporter queried the White House whether they would now consider celebrating Diwali (coming on October 24th). Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan said he would “look into it”. For Press Trust of India, however, it’s all in a day’s work to take that politically correct statement and twist it into this: “The White House will consider celebrating Diwali on the lines of holidays of other religions commemorated by it.” This report will be happily propagated by hundreds of editors. Readers will be greeted by half-truth headlines like White House may sparkle this Diwali (see here and here). [Filter Coffee]
First things first, don’t blame the reporters – it is the editors at both the so called ethnic media and those back home who suck; can’t clean-up copy properly and have no idea
The telecoms boom and bust, and the many colourful and crooked characters who lined their pockets on the way, produced a crop of books, the most entertaining of which is “Broadbandits: Inside the $750 billion Telecom Heist” by Om Malik, formerly a writer at Red Herring, a now-defunct technology magazine. [ The Economist ]
This is a recap of some of the headlines for the week ending 10.11.2003 on NotReallyIndian.com
Meanwhile, here is short list of five most popular items on NRI….
A few weeks ago I urged art lovers to go visit Talwar Gallery in New York. It is featuring works of Nasreen Mohamedi. Holland Cotter, an influential and intelligent art critic for the New York Times has a rather moving review of the show. I again urge you to read the review, and visit the gallery. It is my bad luck that I am in San Francisco, for I would not miss it for anything in the world if I was still back in New York.
if people, especially young artists, knew about Mohamedi, they would love her the way they do Eva Hesse. But then, the whole story of modern Indian art, so rich and complex, is still barely acknowledged in New York, making galleries that specialize in it, like Talwar, invaluable additions to the city’s art culture.
As to Mohamedi herself, she broke essentialist ideas of what Indian
Continue reading...Continue reading In Praise of Mohamedi & Talwar Gallery
best
tandoor UZBEKISTAN COMMUNITY CENTER
Maybe it was the brochure. In it, the tow-headed model who
looks like Kiki, the Norwegian sister of your grade-school crush, is dressed in
gauzy pink-and-lemon pants and lying on a yellow naugahyde sofa. Or she’s
leaning against the stark silver walls of some downtown industrial
something-or-other. She’s too much, her Yogini outfits too Easter-egg sexpot
adorable to believe. YOGINI has a Night Collection too, but really it’s the
pastel, rock ‘n’ roll, midriff-baring line that makes you want to strike a pose
or wait backstage for a sure-thing pass.
Before the ban, KARMA was a
Continue reading...Continue reading Best of (NRI) New York – Village Voice
Rohinton Mistry’s new novel has been sold “again to Sonny Mehta at Knopf, for publication in 2006, by Bruce Westwood at Westwood Creative Artists (US). UK rights, again to Stephan Page at Faber & Faber, by Derek Johns at A P Watt on behalf of Westwood.” We don’t have any more details but will keep you posted. We are already waiting for this one, given that A Fine Balance was perhaps the best book by any writer of South Asian origin. And it should be a good lesson for wannabes like Pankaj Mishra to stop writing fiction. They are not good enough! Here is a rather interesting profile of the man
This just in – we have come across a band called AutoRickshaw, which is an Indo-Canadian Jazz outfit comprised of Suba Sankaran, Rich Brown, Dylan Bell, Debashis Sinha and Hanley. Here is a link to the band’s website. Any Canadian readers who want to interview these guys, get back to us as soon as possible
If you have not, then you will shortly. He is one of the authors to have been nominated for Canada’s Giller Prize, for his book, The In-Between WOrld of Vikram Lall. Hey the last un-NRI to win the prize, Rohinton Mistry (for A Fine Balance) is publishing world’s big cheese. The awards are going to announced live on Bravo in Canada.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the 2003 Giller Prize promises to be better than ever with a fresh new look that puts the nominated authors centre stage in a ceremony hosted by one of Canadian television’s premier comedians, Mary Walsh, and several celebrity presenters.
