Comments on: Readings http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/03/09/readings/ "That was the beginning of the century; this is its end. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once, but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night— I don't know where it came from— in a predawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." - Czeslaw Milosz, Borderlines. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:26:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Uma http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/03/09/readings/#comment-817 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:16:24 +0000 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/03/09/readings/#comment-817 Thanks. I think Kiran Nagarkar is a serious and writer, and Chandrahas Choudhary is a serious reviewer, so this is quite interesting. Thanks. I think Kiran Nagarkar is a serious and writer, and Chandrahas Choudhary is a serious reviewer, so this is quite interesting.

]]> by: Amit http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/03/09/readings/#comment-812 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:27:38 +0000 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/03/09/readings/#comment-812 And here's Nagarkar on the greatest reviewer and critic who has ever lived on the face of this planet, Chandrahas Choudhury: "The first review appeared in a one-time-great-but-now-fading Sunday paper. It was written by a young man who was an apostle of a new school of criticism that is becoming popular today: say anything you want, accuse anybody of anything without substantiating any of the claims or statements. He must have had a desperate need to attract attention and was willing to go to any lengths to get it. The good man called God’s Little Soldier an act of literary terrorism and many other wonderful things. I pretended I was not upset. I tried to behave abnormally normal while all I wanted to do was to bury my head in the toilet bowl and flush the tank. Or maybe migrate to darkest Africa. What was I going to do? I knew Dubya and Rummy and Dick along with the FBI, the CIA and the boss of Homeland Security would already be scouring the whole country looking for me, and that there was a solitary cell in the torture section in Guantanamo Bay jail reserved for me." And here’s Nagarkar on the greatest reviewer and critic who has ever lived on the face of this planet, Chandrahas Choudhury:

“The first review appeared in a one-time-great-but-now-fading Sunday paper. It was written by a young man who was an apostle of a new school of criticism that is becoming popular today: say anything you want, accuse anybody of anything without substantiating any of the claims or statements. He must have had a desperate need to attract attention and was willing to go to any lengths to get it. The good man called God’s Little Soldier an act of literary terrorism and many other wonderful things.

I pretended I was not upset. I tried to behave abnormally normal while all I wanted to do was to bury my head in the toilet bowl and flush the tank.

Or maybe migrate to darkest Africa. What was I going to do? I knew Dubya and Rummy and Dick along with the FBI, the CIA and the boss of Homeland Security would already be scouring the whole country looking for me, and that there was a solitary cell in the torture section in Guantanamo Bay jail reserved for me.”

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