Old Montreal
Amitav Ghosh
Le Morne Brabant, Mauritius
Le Morne Brabant marks the south-western corner of Mauritius. It is a World Heritage Site, for reasons that are explained at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morne_Brabant
Encounters: Gore Vidal in Montreal
Encounters: Gore Vidal at Montreal Gore Vidal’s Julian is one of the finest epistolary novels I’ve ever read. Listening to him in Montreal, I reverted to the…
Letters
I am not very good with the Internet, and have only recently figured out how to put up my own posts (and that too with a great deal…
Current Reading: Gabriella De Ferrari’s ‘Gringa Latina’
As a schoolboy I was fascinated by the Atacama desert, partly because of the music of the name, and partly because my geography textbook declared it to be the driest…
In A Writer’s Garden
With Pramoedya Ananta Toer Gardening was one of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's passions. I visited the great Indonesian writer at his home in Jakarta in 1997, nine years before his death.…
Posada de Coloane
A small posada (inn) on the beach, a world away from the casinos and skyscrapers of Macau. It serves some of the best Macahnese food in the city and the…
‘Em and The Big Hoom’ by Jerry Pinto
Em and the Big Hoom (unpublished ms) by Jerry Pinto Having followed Jerry Pinto’s work for many years I’ve long believed that he would one day produce a great book.…