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arnab
post Mar 2 2006, 11:09 PM
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another subcontinent presents our latest feature: "i see the majority of us as extras", a conversation with kiran nagarkar. this feature is now live on our home site. we invite your thoughts and feedback on it here. kiran nagarkar will join in the discussion.


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post Mar 6 2006, 04:15 PM
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It's really exciting for us that you're here Mr.Nagarkar. I'm looking forward to having you back here when you're at leisure. I've just begun on Cuckold and am charmed at the contemporariness of the narrative while still giving the reader a feel of the historical past.

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Here's the feature"The Artful Storyteller" from this month's The Literary Review (The Hindu).

On God's Little Soldier, the author says
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The premise of the book, he says, is to challenge the public perception that terrorists are "madrassa boys", who are depicted sitting, swaying back and forth learning the Koran or the Hadith. "My premise is that some of them don't come from that background as I discovered much later after I'd done a lot of writing. Some of them are not just highly educated but absolutely brilliant guys. We find it so much easier to stereotype them and to see them monochromatically. You might disagree violently with extremism and the appalling carnage that comes in its wake. But that doesn't mean that we can't try and understand them", he says.


Kureishi attempted the same from a different angle in The Black Album and it will be truly interesting to observe how GLS treats the issue.

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arnab   "i see the majority of us as extras"   Mar 2 2006, 11:09 PM
Anjali   I said a loud "hallelujah" when I saw th...   Mar 3 2006, 12:28 AM
arnab   anjali, that thought is actually completed just ...   Mar 3 2006, 12:33 AM
Anjali   Oh, I see. I didn't realise that that was the ...   Mar 3 2006, 12:35 AM
indiego   Thanks for this dilkhulaas interview! I have a...   Mar 3 2006, 07:31 AM
ajit   In person as well as in his writings (the ones I h...   Mar 3 2006, 11:20 AM
arnab   i think you can rue the state of language relation...   Mar 3 2006, 12:14 PM
arnab   i should add that i have only just set up an accou...   Mar 3 2006, 12:30 PM
ajit   It'll be very nice to have Kiran here in perso...   Mar 3 2006, 01:02 PM
Jai Malhar   ajit, are you trying to tell us that you have met ...   Mar 3 2006, 06:50 PM
hibiscus   Arnab, and Mr Nagarkar, that is a great conversati...   Mar 3 2006, 07:12 PM
frangipani   Arnab and Mr. Nagarkar, thank you so much for a wo...   Mar 3 2006, 08:54 PM
arnab   his compassion may disappear when he sees you...   Mar 3 2006, 10:37 PM
ajit   As compared to the one here ? :huh:   Mar 3 2006, 11:31 PM
arnab   As compared to the one here ? :huh: [/quote] th...   Mar 3 2006, 11:34 PM
Sue Darlow   I agree, it is rather nice!   Mar 3 2006, 11:48 PM
ajit   that one was posed.[/quote] I must confess the di...   Mar 4 2006, 12:01 AM
arnab   all i meant was that that was a picture being ta...   Mar 4 2006, 12:07 AM
Kiran Nagarkar   hello, if i have not written in resonse to the ma...   Mar 4 2006, 11:31 AM
seajay   Thanks so much for taking time to stop by in the m...   Mar 4 2006, 12:13 PM
ajit   I shall be standing in line April 7 with my two te...   Mar 5 2006, 12:48 AM
Pratibha   Kiran, thanks for taking time out of you busy sc...   Mar 5 2006, 01:24 AM
Pratibha   where?   Mar 5 2006, 01:24 AM
arnab   folks, as kiran said in his post, the novel is not...   Mar 5 2006, 01:48 AM
moazzam   kiran, welcome to AS. look forward to the moment ...   Mar 6 2006, 03:12 AM
shyama   It's really exciting for us that you're he...   Mar 6 2006, 04:15 PM
lekha   such an interesting conversation, arnab and mr nag...   Mar 8 2006, 09:21 PM
hibiscus   I'm feeling increasingly exhilarated on re-rea...   Mar 12 2006, 04:23 PM
Kiran Nagarkar   Anjali: You said you had one thousand and one que...   Mar 24 2006, 08:31 AM
Kiran Nagarkar   Frangipani: You asked me about historical verac...   Mar 24 2006, 08:36 AM
Anjali   Mr Nagarkar, I do have many questions but feel al...   Mar 24 2006, 09:38 PM
frangipani   Mr. Nagarkar, that is absolutely right! Coin...   Apr 3 2006, 06:55 PM
Jai Malhar   any reviews yet? :D i hope to pick up a copy tonig...   Apr 7 2006, 06:15 PM
arnab   today is the day, right? i envy you jai malhar, fo...   Apr 7 2006, 08:37 PM

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