For sometime I’ve felt that some of the best novelists writing in English are Indians. Just as the Irish dominated English literature in the early part of the 20th century, with Yeats, Joyce and Shaw, I feel the Indians are using the English language to advance literature, to make the novel their own. Writers like [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The White Tiger
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why I read the New Yorker
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I remember the first time I picked up a copy of The New Yorker from where it was lying on a friend’s Mother’s kitchen table. This was sometime in the eighties. I read one snippet from the “Talk of the Town” and was immediately intrigued. Another time I found an issue at their house and [...]
