Comments on: Hindustan Times Interview http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/ Reading Writing Teaching Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: elizabeth http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-175 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:23:49 +0100 http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-175 I think the question is, which Rushdie? I haven't been that impressed by any of the fiction he's written since 'Moor's Last Sigh,' but I think some of his essays in the two nonfic collections are quite good, and I'll always love Midnight's Children. His output is so variable. My most overrated: Updike. Amit Chaudhuri managed to capture so perfectly some of the anthropological peculiarities of Oxford-grad-student life that it's unnerving to read. As if the novel is peeking over your shoulder, and into your head. I think the question is, which Rushdie? I haven’t been that impressed by any of the fiction he’s written since ‘Moor’s Last Sigh,’ but I think some of his essays in the two nonfic collections are quite good, and I’ll always love Midnight’s Children. His output is so variable. My most overrated: Updike.

Amit Chaudhuri managed to capture so perfectly some of the anthropological peculiarities of Oxford-grad-student life that it’s unnerving to read. As if the novel is peeking over your shoulder, and into your head.

]]> by: sonia http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-173 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:34:20 +0100 http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-173 Mistry-yes...but rushdie??? although reading his latest book right now, and I can begin to see why he's somebody's answer to that question. Mistry-yes…but rushdie??? although reading his latest book right now, and I can begin to see why he’s somebody’s answer to that question.

]]> by: RL http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-169 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:21:16 +0100 http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-169 Very entertaining. Somehow I was not surprised by the "paper" answer. I love that essay of yours "Once in love with paper"; it made it into my "about" on my blog! Also find perverse pleasure in the salman rushdie citation. Ok, this has probably taken more than a minute... Very entertaining. Somehow I was not surprised by the “paper” answer. I love that essay of yours “Once in love with paper”; it made it into my “about” on my blog! Also find perverse pleasure in the salman rushdie citation. Ok, this has probably taken more than a minute…

]]> by: Vikash Singh http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-168 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:32:32 +0100 http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-168 Absolutely brilliant Top 5 list. My favorite is the tie between Mistry & Rushdie. Although I wouldn't hesitate to throw Vikram Seth onto that pedestal as well. Absolutely brilliant Top 5 list. My favorite is the tie between Mistry & Rushdie. Although I wouldn’t hesitate to throw Vikram Seth onto that pedestal as well.

]]> by: Jabberwock http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-167 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 07:11:31 +0100 http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2006/04/14/hindustan-times-interview/#comment-167 Hell. Have you ever been interviewed for that hideous "Bibliofile" column in the Sunday Asian Age? Was discussing just this sort of thing at a panel discussion during the Kitab festival recently - about these easy-consumption author bytes that are served up by most newspapers. Having said that, it's fun to see the expression on Lord Naipaul's face when a gawping 21-year-old rookie reporter asks him at the Magic Seeds launch, "Sir, have you written any other books?" Hell. Have you ever been interviewed for that hideous “Bibliofile” column in the Sunday Asian Age? Was discussing just this sort of thing at a panel discussion during the Kitab festival recently - about these easy-consumption author bytes that are served up by most newspapers.

Having said that, it’s fun to see the expression on Lord Naipaul’s face when a gawping 21-year-old rookie reporter asks him at the Magic Seeds launch, “Sir, have you written any other books?”

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