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Monthly Archives: December 2006

The Hope of Obama

Friday, December 22, 2006

Dissertator Sepoy writes on The Audacity of Hope in his spare time. This is the second posting in the series on Shri Barack Obama. Do read it.

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Rashtrakavi

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Nothing makes me feel back at home in Mysore like a bit of absurdity.
Such as the news item I read this morning in the Andolana, Mysore leading morning newspaper.
The Karnataka State Government in its infinite wisdom decided to honor poet and critic Dr. G. S. Shivarurdappa as Rashtrakavi, the National poet laureate. Indeed a very [...]

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Obama

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Lapata has a fabulous post at Chapatimystery on the man of the hour, Barack Obama. Enjoy.

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Pamuk’s Nobel Lecture

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Here is the link to Orhan Pamuk’s intensely personal Nobel Lecture.
I don’t want to butcher it by picking out a few paragraphs.
Please do read it.

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R K Narayan

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

The New Yorker has a long essay on R K Narayan by Wyatt Mason, who tells the stories (of Greene helping Narayan and so on) and reviews the novels. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the essay.
Sainthood is a kind of legacy, but fiction writers tend to prefer devoted readers to ardent worshippers. To [...]

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A new book on (western) Civilization

Saturday, December 9, 2006

From the many reviews that I looked at, Roger Osborne’s new book Civilization: A New History of the Western World
seems to be a necessary reading.
Here are the links to reviews in New York Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph.
Some relevant paragraphs from these reviews.
Tim Gardam writes in The Guardian:
Osborne argues that we inherit [...]

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