A writer I admire, and am proud to call a friend, has a post about my Roadrunner. That's Amitava Kumar, writing here. (He's mistaken. That photo really is me).
While you're over at his place, check the news of his new book.
Roadrunner on Amazon!
Buy Roadrunner, Indian sites
Travel: Our Judgement Free
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. (Listen)
It was January the thirtieth/And everybody was feelin' fine.
Yo!
Good times!
TwitTwotTwet
Some of my writing
Asirgarh, Narbona, towelsTsunami reports
Girls of his (my) dreams
Winner, Outlook/Picador 2004/5
'74 Bra Flinging Story
Not just about tennis
My books
Branded by Law | The Narmada Dammed | RoadrunnerSome of my photographs
Worth your time
Ramani's fieldnotesTom Pietrasik | Abi
Annie | Shivam V
Bombay Addict
Uma MD | Amitava Kumar | John Naughton
Amin for your travel needs
1 comment:
Amitava Kumar may be a good writer, but, on the subject of India-Pakistan, he is also a shameless advocate of the pernicious "both sides are equally guilty" garbage. You can just hear him now saying something like "The people on both sides want peace, but the governments...etc". Without even so much as a bother as to what either government represents in terms of ideology, behaviour and structure. In India, the government does represent, and certainly tries to stand for, the people, the poor, all classes of people, people from all walks of life. There is an accent on empowerment, however slowly that is taking place. The government, not excluding the maligned BJP, strongly emphasizes democracy, freedom( of movement, association, expression), secularism and pluralism. Even the BJP will not abjure secularism( and positively not freedom and pluralism), only what it calls 'pseudo-secularism'. Development, economic, social and technological are issues in India in politics,in media and academia. In Pakistan, everything is about the military, landlords, fundamentalists, the super-elite(starting with Jinnah and Moslem League cronies) and of course India and the Kashmir issue, a major Pakistani preoccupation from day one. There is, needless to say, an obsession with Pakistan being the homeland of subcontinental Moslems, of emphasizing to the exclusion of everything else, Pakistan's Islamic founding ideology and character. And in order to buttress this ideology, there are repeated references to the 'plight' of Moslems on the subcontinent today, thus justifying Pakistan's own insecurity and belligerence. Pakistan as a country, consequently, has no vision of being an economic or technological force in the world, nor any alternative, constructive vision of how secularism and pluralism should play out. It's all negativism and negation of India.
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