Agha Shahid Ali journals: 2
Amitav GhoshApril 26, 2001 ‘The morning after one of her concerts there were many reviews in the paper. She said to Shahid: ‘parh ke sunao (read them out)’. Shahid read some…
June 8, 2011
Met the BBC's arts correspondent, Razia Iqbal at the new Docklands Museum near London's Canary Wharf. …
On to Bath
from London to Bath Topping and Company, Booksellers
Out of this Earth
While in London I had hoped to attend an event at the London School of Economics, organized around the recently-published: Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the…
The view in
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY on June 4, 2011
Sir Arthur C. Clarke: parts 1, 2 & 3
July 30, 2001 Colombo Went to see Arthur C. Clarke . He lives in a large compound in Colombo 7. The house has a nice garden on the…
Ratnagiri Journals
Ratnagiri, March 7, 1998 King Thebaw is incarnate in this town: his name is everywhere and everyone knows him. I ask people about him and they answer: ‘Yes, Thiba-raja, he…