‘Day-Scholar’ by Siddharth Chowdhury
Amitav GhoshDay-Scholar by Siddharth Chowdhury (Picador, 2010) An enjoyable tale of life in Delhi University in the 1990s. I was struck by how much the university, and indeed, the…
August 16th
There are days that exhaust one’s capacity for outrage: this is one such. The arrest of Anna Hazare to begin with: one does not need to be a follower…
‘Brazilian Adventure’ by Peter Fleming
Published in 1933, Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure is an immensely entertaining account of a hare-brained expedition into the interior of Brazil. The expedition was mounted, ostensibly, to search for traces…
BB King and Bihar
For several months now I've been looking forward to the publication of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: A Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age by Naresh Fernandes. The extracts I read…
Sundarbans journal, January 19, 2000
January 19, 2000 On board the Megha Sundarbans Stopped for the night at ‘Gerafitola’, after leaving Netidhopani and passing through Chamta Island. On the way,…