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Events 2013
Capital M Literary Festival, China, March 2013 (http://www.m-restaurantgroup.com/capitalm/literary-festival.html) Wanderlust writing: Creating a narrative loyal to the traveller’s experience with Rahul Jacob, Beijing, 9 March, 3 pm 3/F, No. 2 Qianmen Pedestrian Street with Mishi Saran, Shanghai, 10 March, 1 pm 6 & 7/F, No. 5 The Bund
A short conversation with Duncan McKenzie about his beautiful photographs from Ladakh. Intelligent Life magazine.
‘They were old and young, cussed and carefree, short and tall, bald and hirsute, consumers of orange juice or buffalo milk or vodka, and could greet or abuse you in about eight languages.’
On a memorable bunch of cricketers, for Wisden India, the new blue almanack.
The DSC and Impac Dublin longlists
The Sly Company of People Who Care on two longlists, one much longer than the other.
The Economist Crossword Book Award 2011
And the nominees are . . .
Writers pick one each on Cricinfo. I go with the clean bowled.
On Damon Galgut’s beautiful novel. A very short piece for Outlook Traveller‘s Classics section.
Why Pakistanis are warmer than Indians
Ajaz Ashraf in Daily Times
‘It was happenstance I completed reading Pundits from Pakistan, Rahul Bhattacharya’s magisterial account of the Indian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan in the spring of 2004, two days before the recent announcement of resumption of cricketing ties between the two neighbours . . .’
Going back home in your mind
Dave Martins, Stabroek News Getting inside a culture and unravelling it for someone is tough enough if you’re from that culture. For someone outside the culture, the unravelling is virtually impossible, but a writer from India, Rahul Bhattacharya, has done it. He has written the definitive delineation of Guyanese culture in an enthralling book – “The […]