Posts Tagged With: Amitav Ghosh
The Country Without a Post Office
About ten days after floods hit Pakistan, a friend of mine sent me an IM saying, “Have been asked to go to Kargil.” If there had been a thought bubble over my head, it would have been filled with a series of expletives, all of which were meant to convey one two-lettered word: “No.” The [...]
Starring Amitav Ghosh
In March 2008, author Amitav Ghosh spoke at the Arab Writers’ League Conference in Cairo. The essay Confessions of a Xenophile is adapted from that address. Voila, some of my favourite bits from the essay: “It is now over 28 years since I first landed in Cairo, on April 19, 1980: I was then 24 [...]
Poppydom
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I gatecrashed an event. I’ve known people who have gatecrashed in the past. The motivation has generally been the free alcohol or narcotics. Occasionally a gatecrashed party has held the promise of some “action”, especially if one could last till the end when the soundtrack goes from [...]
World Domination
