Shiv on the shore
When the great flood or fire finishes the world, Guyana’s Shivnarine Chanderpaul may still be batting
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GUYANA Moray House Trust 239 Camp & Quamina Sts, Georgetown Readings with Gaiutra Bahadur, author of Coolie Woman Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 5.30 pm In conversation with Brendan de Caires Friday, 23 May 2014, time tbc JAMAICA Calabash Festival Jakes, Treasure Beach ‘Globality’, with Robert Antoni and Andrea Stuart Saturday, 31 May 2014, 10pm
“To Lahli we went like pilgrims to a mela.” Farewell, for India Today.
Forsaking aching breaking years
“Except possibly Springsteen I’m not sure I’d heard formulations like that in rock before. They were vague and specific, correct and powerful.” Australian rock songs in an Indian teenagehood, for Christian Ryan’s magnificent new production, Rock Country
Humaira Bachal founded a school in a squatter colony in Karachi when she was 13.
Her story, for Intelligent Life.
Of two Indian cricketers who found love on tour, romance by post, and left to make a home in countries far away. The Nightwatchman.
A review of James Astill’s book on Indian cricket, for the New York Times.
“The great sitar player Ustad Vilayat Khan once said the idea of a jugalbandi was to both showcase and subdue oneself. As he hands over to his partner, the artiste must judge how much to dissolve the tune. Dravid and Laxman dissolved into one another more harmoniously, more significantly, than any other Indian duo.”
A tribute to the great batsmen in Wisden Almanack no. 150.