Comments on: What’s this about? http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/ "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. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Shama http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1296 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:32:19 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1296 I thought it was quite funny. And MK is presumably part of the lot since he doesn't specifically set himself apart. Some of the reaction surely has to be because every English speaking Indian is also apt to be disconcerted when they are dissected with amused knowingness. I think MK forgot to add that a number of male bloggers also write in a tone that seems to suggest they never outgrew the posturings of their teens (though I believe the same criticism is directed to film critics, white male bloggers et al). Indian women presumably don't write about the same thing and are more varied in their interests? Certainly in a random sampling Indian women write as grown women. I thought it was quite funny. And MK is presumably part of the lot since he doesn’t specifically set himself apart. Some of the reaction surely has to be because every English speaking Indian is also apt to be disconcerted when they are dissected with amused knowingness. I think MK forgot to add that a number of male bloggers also write in a tone that seems to suggest they never outgrew the posturings of their teens (though I believe the same criticism is directed to film critics, white male bloggers et al).

Indian women presumably don’t write about the same thing and are more varied in their interests? Certainly in a random sampling Indian women write as grown women.

]]> by: Uma http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1288 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:25:06 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1288 Swarup, Space Bar - I don't get it either! Very obscure irony... anyway, blogbashing is becoming a standard column-filler topic these days. Funnily, though he rants against blogs for the samemess of their preoccupations, Kesavan has himself written a novel in English - and writes on communalism, as Amardeep points out <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004707.html">here.</a> Like Amardeep, I don't understand why Kesavan doesn't name some of the blogs he's talking about. And I don't get why he doesn't attack women's blogs. Maybe he doesn't know that they exist? Swarup, Space Bar - I don’t get it either! Very obscure irony… anyway, blogbashing is becoming a standard column-filler topic these days. Funnily, though he rants against blogs for the samemess of their preoccupations, Kesavan has himself written a novel in English - and writes on communalism, as Amardeep points out here. Like Amardeep, I don’t understand why Kesavan doesn’t name some of the blogs he’s talking about. And I don’t get why he doesn’t attack women’s blogs. Maybe he doesn’t know that they exist?

]]> by: Space Bar http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1284 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:23:21 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1284 I've never read a more abrupt ending to an article. And apart from claiming that Indian writers writing in Elnglish, including on blogs, tend to write about either Hindi cinema, travel or communalism, I'm not sure what his point was. Also - I m I'm sorry to sound so snide - he seems to have used Microsoft Word's spell-check to give him similar sounding words tomake up the rest of the paragraph you've quoted. I’ve never read a more abrupt ending to an article. And apart from claiming that Indian writers writing in Elnglish, including on blogs, tend to write about either Hindi cinema, travel or communalism, I’m not sure what his point was. Also - I
m I’m sorry to sound so snide - he seems to have used Microsoft Word’s spell-check to give him similar sounding words tomake up the rest of the paragraph you’ve quoted.

]]> by: gaddeswarup http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1281 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:31:20 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/09/06/whats-this-about/#comment-1281 I read a couple of other articles by Mukul Kesavan and liked them. But I did not understand this article at all. Any hints? I read a couple of other articles by Mukul Kesavan and liked them. But I did not understand this article at all. Any hints?

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