My Foreword to ‘If I Die Here Who Will Remember Me?’
ChrestomatherBelow is my Foreword to Vedica Kant's fine new book: 'If I Die Here Who Will Remember Me?': India and the First World War published September 15, 2014,…
Eating Arakan-style
Unnoticed by the world at large India has, over the last few years, made massive financial commitments to its eastern neighbour, Myanmar: Mingun Pagoda, Sagaing region …
The Dark House of the Neighbourhood
In an article written in 1996 I wrote of Burma that for several decades the country had been ‘the dark house of the neighbourhood, huddled behind an…
Petrofiction and Petroculture
In April this year I visited the University of Oregon, Eugene, which is a global pioneer in cross-disciplinary eco-critical studies. While I was there I had an interesting meeting…
Links to my Bogaziçi Chronicles event with novelist Ayfer Tunç, Istanbul, June 6, 2014
Links to my Bogaziçi Chronicles event with novelist Ayfer Tunç at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, June 6, 2014: Aydinlik; Cumhuriyet; Taraf; Haysev; Radikal; Vatan; Haber Turk; kitapzen; …
Neel Mukherjee’s THE LIVES OF OTHERS: a review
Neel Mukherjee’s 2008 novel, Past Continuous is a many-stranded story, set partly in Calcutta (now Kolkata ) and partly in Oxford and London (I should add that…
Correspondence with an Indian-American Student
4th April, 2014 Dear Mr. Amitav Ghosh, My name is Saloni Gupta and I was at a discussion held at the Asian American Cultural Center .…
Correspondence with Padma Viswanathan, author of THE EVER AFTER OF ASHWIN RAO
Padma Viswanathan's novel The Ever After of Ashwin Rao has just been published by Random House Canada. The jacket copy describes the book as: '... a stunning…
Laurel Braitman’s ANIMAL MADNESS – a review
Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves Laurel Braitman Simon & Schuster Rare…
More on the Siege of Kut al-Amara
I recently posted an exchange of letters between myself and Chris Howell, who wrote to me after reading my posts on the Mesopotamia campaign of 1915-16 in the…