Podcasts about Vikram Seth

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Maiden's new female cricket kit, and encounters with the game in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy “I will absolutely be selling my daughters on the idea that cricket is the finest way to waste a large chunk of one's life, but it's far better when that message is being communicated by their peers ." FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'10): The final day of the 2010 County Championship “Notts were presented with an imitation trophy - which apparently was lost later that night in a nightclub" THE REVIEW (19'30): The Documentary: Sir Frank Worrell (BBC World Service) “Initially I thought we needed a bit more on Worrell - but eventually I realised that this lands him as a historical figure." Recorded 19 Jan 2025

His earlier episodes on this show have been huge hits, and as he completes a trilogy of books, he returns to complete a trilogy of episodes. Amitava Kumar joins Amit Varma in episode 408 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about writing, noticing, painting, travelling, trees, and unfulfilled train journeys. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Amitava Kumar on Instagram, Substack, Twitter, Amazon, Vassar, Granta and his own website. 2. The Green Book: An Observer's Notebook -- Amitava Kumar. 3. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 4. Amitava Kumar Finds His Kashmiri Rain -- Episode 364 of The Seen and the Unseen. 5. The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal — Amitava Kumar. 6. The Yellow Book: A Traveller's Diary — Amitava Kumar. 7. My Beloved Life: A Novel -- Amitava Kumar. 8. A Million Mutinies Now -- VS Naipaul. 9. The Trees — Philip Larkin. 10. Before the Storm -- Amitava Kumar. 11. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan. 12. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 13. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth. 14. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 15. ‘Indian languages carry the legacy of caste' — Chandra Bhan Prasad interviewed by Sheela Bhatt. 16. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Stage.in. 18. Laapataa Ladies -- Kiran Rao. 19. Kanthapura -- Raja Rao. 20. All About H Hatterr -- GV Desani. 21. From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada -- Sudha Bharadwaj. 22. India is Broken -- Ashoka Mody. 23. Being Mortal -- Atul Gawande. 24. Earwitness to Place -- Bernie Krause interviewed by Erin Robinsong. 25. All That Breathes -- Shaunak Sen. 26. Frog: 1 Poetry: 0 -- Amitava Kumar. 27. The Heat Will Kill You First -- Jeff Goodell. 28. Danish Husain and the Multiverse of Culture — Episode 359 of The Seen and the Unseen. 29. The Artist's Way -- Julia Cameron. 30. An excerpt from Wittgenstein's diary — Parul Sehgal on Twitter. 31. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein. 32. Burdock -- Janet Malcolm. 33. Hermit in Paris — Italo Calvino. 34. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything. 35. The Wisden Book of Test Cricket (1877-1977) — Compiled & edited by Bill Frindall. 36. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 37. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 38. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila). 39. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran. 40. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen. 41. Bhavni Bhavai -- Ketan Mehta. 42. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia. 43. Secondhand Time -- Svetlana Alexievich. 44. Amitava Kumar's post with Danish Husain's postcard. 45. Fire Weather -- John Vaillant. 46. Ill Nature -- Joy Williams. 47. Hawk -- Joy Williams. This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Gulmohar' by Simahina.

Pakistan's cities are choking on smog, with the cities in Punjab including Lahore being the worst impacted. In this episode, Uzair talks to Abid Omar about what is causing this air pollution crisis in the country and what can be done about it. Abid Omar is the founder of the Pakistan Air Quality Initiative, which provides community-driven air quality data and resources to increase social awareness. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:30 What is going on? 12:10 Transportation's impact 26:20 Things that can be done to solve the crisis 42:50 Do we need more data? Reading recommendations: - Factfulness by Hans Rosling - The Economics of Air Pollution in China by Ma Jun - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Disclosure: We are part of the Amazon Affiliate/LTK Creator programs. We will receive a small commission at no cost if you purchase a book. This post may contain links to purchase books.In this episode, I sit down with Nayantara Roy to discuss her debut novel, The Magnificent Ruins (https://amzn.to/4fmLcFS). We dive into her journey as a writer and how she balances her career as a TV executive with her passion for storytelling. We also explore the themes of family, generational trauma, and the immigrant experience that are woven into her book.Episode Highlights:Nayantara's Background: Born in India and raised across multiple countries, Nayantara's multicultural upbringing greatly influences her writing. She talks about her early interest in storytelling, her time studying classics and her transition into film and TV.The Journey to The Magnificent Ruins (https://amzn.to/4fmLcFS): Nayantara shares the seven-year journey of writing her debut novel while working as a TV executive. She explains how she managed to find time for writing amidst her demanding career and how her time in graduate school at Columbia shaped the book's development.About The Magnificent Ruins (https://amzn.to/4fmLcFS): The novel follows Lila, a millennial books editor in Brooklyn, who inherits her grandfather's mansion in India. Lila must navigate the complex relationships within her estranged family while uncovering buried secrets and redefining her sense of home. Nayantara discusses how the story reflects the immigrant experience and explores the meaning of home from multiple perspectives.Balancing Cultures: Nayantara and I chat about the challenges of balancing multiple identities—how one's cultural background and immigrant status impact personal growth and family relationships.Millennial Perspective: We discuss how the book reflects millennial struggles, particularly the generational contrasts in expectations around career, family, and identity.Nayantara's Book Recommendations:The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (https://amzn.to/3Acr3Dx) Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (https://amzn.to/3O2XmrX) An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (https://amzn.to/4fi8752)Connect with Nayantara Roy:Website: nayantararoy.comInstagram: @tararoyTwitter & Threads: @tararoyDon't miss The Magnificent Ruins, available now in print, e-book, and audiobook formats wherever books are sold.Get More Book Recommendations with Bonus Podcast Episodes!Do you love discovering your next favorite read? You can get even more book recommendations with bonus podcast episodes exclusively on my Substack! I'm...

Nabeel Qureshi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Nabeel S. Qureshi is an entrepreneur and researcher specializing in artificial intelligence and healthcare. He is the CEO of a new startup company and a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Nabeel is based in New York and grew up in Manchester, England. The filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/the-metaphysical-world-of-apichatpong-weerasethakuls-movies Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/01/23/incomparable-empson/ Wittgenstein's late notebooks, Culture and Value https://prismatically.blog/2020/08/30/wittgenstein-culture-and-value-whereof-one-cannot-speak-thereof-one-must-be-silent/ The pianist Grigory Sokolov, especially his recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations https://open.spotify.com/track/0iD6SmRyOj23fCKyG4x8zj?si=decbea5bd38f4515&nd=1&dlsi=ce22c9bdf87a4ba4 The essay Art as Technique by Viktor Shklovsky https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/first/en122/lecturelist-2015-16-2/shklovsky.pdf A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v15/n08/john-lanchester/indian-summa This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Roberto Ranieri"Fantasia in rosso con variazioni"Ronzani Editorewww.ronzanieditore.it“Gli psichiatri che han chiuso i manicomi vengono dal ‘68; chi ha pensato a muoversi e organizzare il territorio, come ‘pesci nel mare', appartiene alla mia generazione e al movimento del ‘77”.Fabrizio RamacciottiUn viaggio nel tempo che vede come compagni di avventura il dottor R., un uomo rivoluzionario, storico promotore della riforma della psichiatria veneziana alla fine del '900 ed Erminio Paternostro, suo ex-paziente, misteriosamente chiamato a prendersi cura di un'improvvisa perdita della parola da parte del protagonista. Il viaggio ripercorre alcuni frammenti documentati della vita di R., al secolo Fabrizio Ramacciotti, impegnato nel movimento del '77 e in una successiva militanza politica di estrema sinistra fino all'approdo nella sanità lagunare, sullo sfondo di una serie di eventi surreali partoriti dalla mente di Erminio, fra tempeste di psicofarmaci e piogge di grafemi e inchiostro. Un'avventura che prosegue poi nel futuro, in una società veneziana distopica, avvolta in un ecosistema urbano semisommerso. Sarà la sede storica del Centro di Salute mentale, Palazzo Boldù, a divenire un luogo di opposizione politica e di resistenza civile. In un attacco alla sede del nuovo potere psichiatrico, Erminio e R., aiutati da un manipolo di Resistenti, cercheranno nuove vie per cavarsela, interrogandosi su un possibile ritorno alla cosiddetta “normalità”, con un colpo di scena finale.Roberto Ranieri, è nato e vive a Venezia. Laureato in Lettere Moderne, giornalista pubblicista, lavora nel Settore Cultura del Comune di Venezia. Ha collaborato alla pagina culturale del quotidiano “Terra“ e alla rivista “Nonsolocinema”, con recensioni letterarie e musicali. È autore della raccolta Sdrucciole per lanterne, vincitrice della prima edizione del concorso nazionale “Alberoandronico” (PerroneLab, 2009). Nel 2011 ha vinto il concorso nazionale per narrativa inedita Ulteriora Mirari, con la pubblicazione della raccolta di racconti Terapie a rischio (Smasher, 2011), di cui nel 2015 è uscita una seconda edizione riveduta. Traduttore di Vikram Seth alla Milanesiana 2011, è presente in varie antologie e raccolte; un'ampia selezione monografica di componimenti è apparsa in Materia Prima (Perrone, 2012).  La raccolta poetica Soffio vocale con vista (Luoghinteriori Editore, 2014) ha vinto il “Premio Città di Castello”; la raccolta Pronome impersonale (Le Voci della Luna, 2019) si è aggiudicata a Sasso Marconi il “Premio Renato Giorgi”. Il poemetto Passacaglia e fuga. Personat è uscito nel dicembre 2020 per i tipi di RP Libri.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Vikram Seth i samtal med Monica Lauritzen. Musik av Sveakvartetten. Internationell författarscen 1 november 1999.

In this podcast, we cover - 1. The parallels between publishing and venture capital 2. The economics of publishing 3. How to get your book published Founder and publisher of Juggernaut Books, Chiki was the founding editor in chief of Random House India and publisher of Penguin India from 2011-15, she is a passionate publisher and all about books. Authors she has worked with include Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Twinkle Khanna and Rujuta Diwekar.

Bongani Kona interviews Gabeba Baderoon and Roger Reeves about their books The History of Intimacy and Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. They remember early transformative encounters with literature and their beginnings as writers. They also confer about essays, poetry, interior lives, family and their current projects. Roger reads from his essay “Reading Fire, Reading the Stars” in addition to his poems “Grendel” and “After the Funeral”. Gabeba reads her poems “Give” and “The Flats”. Bongani Kona is a writer, editor and lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He is a board member of PEN South Africa. Gabeba Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid  as well as the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A Hundred Silences and The History of Intimacy. She's the co-editor, with Desiree Lewis, of the essay collection, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Gabeba is an Associate Professor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. Roger Reeves is the author of two poetry collections, King Me and Best Barbarian. Dark Days: Fugitive Essays was published by Graywolf Press in 2023. His essays have appeared in Granta, The Virginia Quarterly, The Yale Review and elsewhere. Roger is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. In this episode we are in solidarity with the collective case of 12 Eritrean writers and journalists imprisoned in 2001. They are: Dawit Isaak, Fessehaye ‘Joshua' Yohannes, Seyoum Tsehaye, Said Abdelkadir, Methanie Haile, Temesegen Ghebreyesuy, Yousif Mohammed Ali, Amanuel Asrat, Dawit Habtemichael, Matheos Habteab, Sahle ‘Wedi-ltay' Tsefezab and Said Idris ‘Abu Are'. We join PEN International, PEN Eritrea in Exile and PEN centres around the world in calling on the authorities in Eritrea to free them. You can read more about their case here: https://www.pen-international.org/our-campaigns/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-2021 As tributes to them, Gabeba reads “All You Who Sleep Tonight” by Vikram Seth and Roger reads “Preliminary Question” by Aimé Césaire (translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman). This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

Originally a poet, Vikram Seth attracted international attention in 1993 with the publication of his mammoth novel, A Suitable Boy. Set against the backdrop of post-colonial India, the novel made Seth into a literary celebrity – dubbed "India's Tolstoy" and "the Golden Boy." In 2005 he spoke to Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Toronto International Festival of Authors about his book Two Lives. Part memoir, part family history, Two Lives chronicles the remarkable story of Seth's great aunt Henny – a German Jew who lost her family in the Holocaust – and his great uncle Shanti – an Indian-born, Berlin-trained dentist, who lost an arm fighting in World War Two. *This episode originally aired November 20, 2005.

3pm IAN UNPLUGGED On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 , from 3 - 4 pm on “IAN UNPLUGGED” on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), Jay & Jyoti play the current affairs quiz “I Think I Know This” with Hasan Seth, Vikram Seth & Shaun Lal --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/indo-american-news-radio/support

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Klarer Olaug og Marie å skrive hvordan det føles å høre på Håkan Hellstrøm? Olaug er med på linje fra Bergen og tema for episoden er musikk i litteraturen. Er det mulig å skrive godt om musikk?I podkasten Olaug og Aubert på Litteraturhuset møtes forfatterne Olaug Nilssen og Marie Aubert for å snakke om bøker de liker. I subjektiv bokklubb-stil snakker de om romankarakterer, vestlandslitteratur og vennskap i litteraturen. Podkasten er produsert for Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset i 2022Vignett ved Hans Kristen HyrveCoverfoto Kristin Svanæs-SootDisse bøkene nevnes i episoden:Syngja av Lars Amund Vaage, Oktober (2012)Rubato Lars Amund Vaage, Oktober (2001)Udødeligheten av Milan Kundera, Aventura (1990)Havaristen Thomas Bernard, Gyldendal (1994)En egen musikk av Vikram Seth, Gyldendal (1999)Beatles av Lars Saabye Christensen, J.W. Cappelens Forlag (1984)Mannen som elsket Yngve av Tore Renberg, Oktober (2003)Etterklang av Helga Flatland, Aschehoug (2022)Systerspel, om spelet som var, og spelet som vart borte av Benedicte Maurseth, Fagbokforlaget (2022) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vikram Seth's sweeping 1993 novel A Suitable Boy was inspired by a conversation he overheard on a city bus, between a mother and daughter who were debating arranged marriages. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ang189/support

What and when was the first English language novel?There are some contenders for this honour, but the most plausible for me would be Pamela by Samuel Richardson—first published in 1740 and several times since. Widely accepted as the first English novel, it is a racy, saucy, sexually-orientated story—and , of course, for that reason it was the world's first bestseller.In 1832, the first book covers started to happen. In America and Britain, these books, with designed covers, sold for a penny. They were largely the retelling of gothic horror stories. For that reason these books came to called Penny Dreadful.A significant moment in the history of publishing was the advent of the American brothers Albert and Charles Boni, who started a mail-order publishing company. The pioneering efforts of Albert Boni resulted in the creation of the major publishing company , Random House—so called because they decided that their choice of published literature would be random by nature.Their success was followed in 1935 by Penguin—a hugely successful British publisher that printed clearly branded books that appealed to everyone. And mention of Penguin brings me to my guest today, David Davidar—the best known name in Indian publishingDavid was hired by Penguin in 1985. First as an editor and then very quickly as Publisher, David took Penguin places—from publishing six books in 1987 to 150 titles annually.By the time he moved to Penguin Canada in 2004, David had published a stable of thoroughbreds—here's a sample—Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth, Ruskin Bond, Romila Thapar, Salman Rushdie and William Dalrymple.One of my earlier guests on this show, author Pavan Varma made singular mention of having been first published by David.David Davidar is, at once, a publisher, an editor, a novelist of three wonderful books. He runs Aleph Book Company—a top-shelf publishing house, in partnership with Rupa Publications, and continues to battle alongside the gods of academe with weapons of mass typography.Those in the business will not need me to say anything. For those who are readers of books, who might not be familiar with the publishing industry, you can easily attribute a large part of your proud book collection to one man. And I feel privileged to be able to introduce him to you today.ABOUT DAVID DAVIDARDavid Davidar is an Indian novelist and publisher. He is the author of three published novels, The House of Blue Mangoes, The Solitude of Emperors, and Ithaca. In parallel to his writing career, Davidar has been a publisher for over a quarter-century. David Davidar has been around books all his life.Buy A Case Of Indian Marvels: https://amzn.to/3VhkEMOListen to Constantine Cavafy's poem, "ITHACA", the inspiration for David's book by the same name, recited by Sean Connery : https://youtu.be/i8is5ZE4_CUWHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in "What's That Word?!",  where they discuss "#"—which is the "hash" or "pound" symbol.WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW?Reach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.com.Or here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycityOr here:  https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/Cover photo: Rachna Singh

A version of this essay was published by firstpost at https://www.firstpost.com/india/75-years-have-midnights-children-come-of-age-11093221.htmlIt is a bit of a coincidence that, just around the 75th anniversary of India gaining political independence from the British, Salman Rushdie should be in the news again, because he was stabbed in Chautauqua, a literary watering-hole in upstate New York. His book Midnight’s Children was, as is well known, a sensation when it first came out some forty years ago, in 1981.The central conceit in the book is that 100,000 children born all over India on or around midnight on August 15th, 1947, are endowed with magical powers. Their lives are an allegory for India’s progress. It is a picaresque romp centered around the protagonist, Saleem Sinai, who can telepathically connect with and organize them. When I first read the book, I was impressed by the verbal pyrotechnics, and more so the clever interweaving of contemporary events into the magical realism of the ‘children’s’ lives. The great human tragedies and triumphs of Bharat, that is India, are a rich mother-lode to mine for fiction, and another example is the re-telling of the Mahabharata by Shashi Tharoor in The Great Indian Novel. But over time, the book’s impact faded for me. Even though I didn’t pay attention to it on first reading it, now I see it as significant that Saleem Sinai’s principal rivals among the children are ‘Shiva’ and ‘Parvati-the-witch’. Interesting choice of names, wouldn’t you say? A bit like Deepa Mehta’s choice of Radha and Sita for Fire, which I criticized as dog-whistle Hindu-hatred at the time in The problem with Fire.Thank you for reading Shadow Warrior. This post is public so feel free to share it.Nevertheless, Rushdie’s and the book’s charm obviously did not fade for the Anglosphere, because it fit into their world-view of India, as an exotic, barbaric country where bizarre things happen. They awarded it a Booker Prize, and later a Booker of Bookers, basically dubbing it the best book to have been written in English in decades. Rushdie rode his new-found stardom to riches and influence, and became a sort of seer on all things related not only to India, but also literature in general. And he physically moved to the Anglosphere, all the better to suit his new status as an oracle. In this he trod a well-trodden path which, for example, Amartya Sen and V S Naipaul also followed. More on that by and by.If I am not mistaken, Rushdie’s output after Midnight’s Children is hit-and-miss. His only other work that gained fame (notoriety?) was The Satanic Verses, but that was for other reasons, not literary merit. Since I haven’t read that book, I have no particular opinion on it, and the politics is anyway complicated because of Shia-Sunni issues and internal Muslim issues of blasphemy. But I am now beginning to wonder if Rushdie is also a one-horse wonder, like Arundhati Roy. I have not read her The God of Small Things, but her trajectory has been similar to Rushdie’s: one hit, instant elevation to global stardom and a bully pulpit from which to spout all sorts of radical ideas. A pliant Anglo media piled on and lionized both, regardless of actual merit. Furthermore, I am struck by the parallels with Amartya Sen, who also parlayed fame from early works into global demi-god status, marriage into the Rothschild empire, and a Nobel Prize (although technically it is only the Swedish bank’s prize for economics). His theories about the ‘Kerala model’ of development turn out to be pure bunkum, but then who’s counting? Which reminds me, I suspect the always au courant Scandinavians will now award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Rushdie as a knee-jerk reaction to the stabbing, as they awarded the Peace Prize to Barack Obama basically because, he was, well…. black. Well, bully for Rushdie!That, of course, is pure speculation. But the comparison with Naipaul is interesting. Both made Britain their home, and both commented on India in less-than-flattering terms. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness was fierce, disappointed, and condemnatory. But the difference is that Naipaul, over time, became convinced that India was on the rise. Rushdie, so far as I can tell, does not see any future for India, nor anything worth celebrating.Maybe that’s why I like Naipaul, because he agrees with my prejudices; but objectively speaking his writing has greater insight. Here’s an excerpt from Naipaul’s India Today article on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day. I think that within every kind of disorder now in India there is a larger positive movement. But the future will be fairly chaotic. Politics will have to be at the level of the people now. People like Nehru were colonial-style politicians. They were to a large extent created and protected by the colonial order. They did not begin with the people. Politicians now have to begin with the people. They cannot be too far above the level of the people. They are very much part of the people. The Nehrus of the world have to give way now to the men of the people...It is important, in this apparent mess, for two things not to be interfered with. One is economic growth. I would like to see that encouraged in every way. It is the most important news coming out of India, more important than the politics. I would like to see education extended and extended. If this were to happen, and I feel it might, gradually, the actual level of politics will reflect both the economic life and higher level of education.Rushdie doesn’t have that sympathy, nor the realization that there is something behind the chaos. Fair enough, he is entitled to his opinion. But the point at which I personally became annoyed with Rushdie was when he proclaimed (like Macaulay before him) that there is nothing worthwhile in modern Indian-language literature. I knew this to be false because there is proof of existence: I had read O V Vijayan, Thakazhi, S K Pottekkat, Basheer, Anand, and M Mukundan in Malayalam; Ashapurna Devi and Tarasankar Banerjee in translation from Bengali; S L Bhyrappa in Kannada and a host of other world-class writers. For Rushdie to blithely denigrate them all showed both arrogance and ignorance, typical of India’s ‘liberals’. In fact, it is India’s English-language output that is inferior and derivative. With the exception of a few tour-de-force works such as Vikram Seth’s Golden Gate and Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, there’s nothing unique or noteworthy that will stand the test of time. Even Rushdie’s magical realism, I found out, pales before Vijayan’s 1960’s The Legends of Khasak with its shape-shifting odiyans and the disembodied flying oracular head of the ancient magician Kandath Nair; not to mention Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ 1970s English publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude.Thanks for reading Shadow Warrior! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.It also turns out that Naipaul was right: 25 years later India is finally on an upward trajectory (that graphic from the FT is interesting, although it misrepresents India’s external boundaries). The colonialists are dead and buried, and ordinary men are now taking India forward. With economic growth, everything comes your way; and yes, the education system still sucks, as it’s infested with English and anti-national woke leftism (alas, also derivative and unoriginal). A Rushdie, steeped in the groupthink of Lutyens and Khan Market, has simply failed to see this, which  may mean he lacks the empathy, understanding, and feelings the greatest writers possess. The children and grandchildren of ‘midnight’s children’, however, see this.And what of the real midnight’s children? Hat tip to @NAN_DINI:  they are honoring the flag. They believe. Now personally, I am a little ambivalent about the ‘fly the flag in every house’ request by Prime Minister Modi. Of course, in my neighborhood in leftist paradise Thiruvananthapuram, hardly anybody took up his clarion call. Besides, I feel a little queasy about the American kitsch of flag-waving jingoism. In addition, flying the national flag from temples bothers me. I believe in the separation of ‘church’ and state; and I honestly think the interference of politicians in temples is an abomination. But I guess this Magnificent Generation that suffered through fifty years of kakistocratic dynasty mis-governance (see my earlier piece The Nehruvian Penalty: 50 wasted years) deserves to be applauded because they still believe. I do, too, but maybe I am an old cynic. I am not as old as them, but I remember suffering through those awful years of PL-480 and war and shortages of everything. I left, but then I returned because I, too, do believe. Giving credit where it’s due, I applaud Rushdie for coming up with the vanity of ‘midnight’s children’ and giving it a lot of airplay. But I’m afraid they, and their children and grand-children, have left Rushdie behind. They have moved on. He hasn’t, like the rest of the Anglo-Mughlai elite. Rushdie, midnight’s child himself, stayed stuck in the past while the others moved ahead. And that can become an avalanche, an irresistible force, if all goes well.1470 words, 18 Aug 2022 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

In this episode of Out of the Clouds, host Anne Muhlethaler reconnects with Archana Jain, an accomplished PR and communications professional, and the founder of PR Pundit, one of India's top integrated communications firms. Archana has been at the forefront of her industry since her early days in the field and is widely recognised as a leading personality in PR, communication and media. She has been acknowledged as India's top 100 PR communications professionals, as well as among India's 50 Most Influential Women in Indian Media, Marketing & Advertising (2019, 2020 & 2021) and featured in the “Top 100 Influential Game Changers List.”Anne and Archana collaborated a few years ago, and got to know each other, back when Anne was heading global communications for French shoe designer Christian Louboutin. Over the course of this conversation, Archana tells the story of her beginnings in PR, how she went from consulting into working towards consumer-focused communication, to building her company and creating meaningful programs for the right audiences. She talks to Anne about why public relations still matters today, how it's imperative for brands to be telling authentic stories and why PR is a long game - not a quick win, and current challenges given that it's not an age-old profession. They also discuss changes in the media landscape and the rise of purpose-driven communications and community advocacy, in the age of social media. Archana also offers her thoughts on what it's been like to be a woman at the head of her own business, how the landscape changed in the past twenty years, but also how she chose to  integrate flexibility and WFH capabilities for her team since 2004 - and how satisfying it's been for her to be able to help women balance their personal and professional commitments. You'll probably notice a loud peacock (or two) in the background, as some were roaming behind Archana's home office during the interview. A good way to set the scene for this warm and in-depth interview with this influential entrepreneur. Happy listening!  ***Selected links from the episode:You can find Archana on IG @AJPundit and on Twitter @AJPunditOn LinkedIn Archana Jain Find out more about PR Pundit on their website http://www.prpundit.com/ - or on IG https://www.instagram.com/PRPundit/The origin and meaning of the word Pundit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PunditTripundra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripundraVogue India - https://www.vogue.in/Adidas Run for the Oceans campaign - https://thecsrjournal.in/adidas-run-for-the-oceans-unites-over-87k-runners-across-india/Archana's interview on CommSpeak with Amith Prashu - https://youtu.be/1Zn2uWJARo0The German tampon PR campaign by Female Company via The GuardianThe exceptional Kate Winslet for L'Oréal campaign - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjcd6Xu4MYUParvati Valley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati_ValleyKashmir Shaivism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_ShaivismThe Hungry Tide, book by Amitav Ghosh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4950.The_Hungry_TideA suitable boy, the book by Vikram Seth https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50365.A_Suitable_BoyThe Emperor of All Maladies, a biography of cancer, the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7170627-the-emperor-of-all-maladies***f you enjoyed this episode, click subscribe for more, and consider writing a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, it helps people find us and also helps to secure future guests. Thank you  so much for listening! For all notes and transcripts, please visit Out Of The Clouds on Simplecast - https://out-of-the-clouds.simplecast.com/  Sign up for Anne's email newsletter for more from Out of the Clouds at https://annevmuhlethaler.com. Follow Anne: Twitter: @annvi  IG: @_outoftheclouds 

music industry. To jazz things up, we discuss three must-read music novels and a kiwi classic. Books mentioned in the show: The conductor/ Sarah Quigley https://bit.ly/3FvLSIm An equal music/ Vikram Seth https://bit.ly/3kUPt9j Run, Rose, Run/ Dolly Parton and James Patterson https://bit.ly/3vW0mOz Hellzapoppin'!: the art of Flying Nun / editor, David Simpson https://bit.ly/3ykRR11 Check out this NZ Music photography exhibition: From the pit www.fromthepit.co.nz Check out Auckland Libraries on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/aucklandlibraries

Author/historian Stuart Kells has been chasing rare books and other bookish treasures since childhood. In the 1980s he went for classic sci-fi paperbacks from Ace and Dell, and authors such as Philip K. Dick and Robert Heinlein.   When he moved to Melbourne in the summer of 1989 he was amazed by the city's bookshops, especially secondhand shops - notably Alice's and Sainsbury's in Carlton. When ​he wasn't looking for books​ here he was fossicking in the Co-op bookshop at Melbourne University, or hunting for ​them at markets and fetes. For the past 26 years​ he's been a regular at Camberwell Market where great books can be found, along with almost everything else. Vividly remembered finds include Iain Banks and Vikram Seth firsts; classic Australian crime pulps; rare maps; and advertising and ephemera of every kind.   I connected with Stuart recently via Zoom to talk about Penguin and the Lane Brothers, ​his revealing, myth-busting book about the intimate partnership of Allen, Richard and John Lane – and how it explains the success of Penguin Books, the twentieth century's "greatest publishing house." We talk about the spirit of daring and creative opposition that drove the brothers to publish so many quality books on such a massive scale at such affordable prices – and how together they achieved a revolution in modern book publishing. 

Eve Parker Finley - Icarus feat. Ah-mer-ah-su Sneaky Sound System - Lost in the Future Laura Marling & Johnny Flynn - The Water Barrie - Geology United Future Organization (UFO) - My Foolish Dream Red - La Moneda Cléa's book - Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King Neil's book - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and also A World Undone by G. J. Meyer and Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Jamie's book - Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua Freeman Suuns - Trilogy Susana Baca - Maria Lando The Halluci Nation ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy, and Black bear - R.E.D. Lorde - Mata Kohore (Stoned at the Nail Salon) Yusef Lateef - Love Song From Spartacus Sylvan Esso - Die Young

With a dream of turning the family home, since four generations, into a classic but unique Indian guesthouse or Haveli, Vikram Seth and family started the major undertaking of turning the old home into a maze of wonderful and very special rooms unlike all others. Without having any previous knowledge of the hospitality industry Vikram put all his savings into the project that many called madness. He could have gone for the easy money and torn down the house to build a money making office building like his neighbours, but he chose the route less travelled. And his and the family's efforts have paid off as they are now one of the most high ranking guesthouses in this country of 1.3 billion people. www.jaipurhaveli.com

A Suitable Boy ... Inaccessible!

Joyeeta Dutta comes on the podcast to discuss Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, her process, a Suitable boy, socializing and more! Joyeeta is an Indian actor who has worked in television and theatre. In July 2020, Joyeeta made her screen debut in BBC One's A Suitable Boy, a series directed by Mira Nair on a screenplay by Andrew Davies. Released on BBC One and Netflix, A Suitable Boy is an adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel of the same name. Prior to this Joyeeta was also a part of Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding Musical in 2019, a stage adaptation of her BAFTA - winning movie. Joyeeta has trained in a 2-year acting program under the tutelage of director N.K. Sharma as part Act One, a New Delhi based theatre group. She has also briefly trained with actor Adil Hussain. Before being bitten by the acting bug, Joyeeta worked at McKinsey and Co. after having graduated in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience And Please stay in touch: https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1 https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperience https://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperience The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/ Twitter.com/shehzad89 Chapters: 0:00 Turning it on for the camera 4:40 Getting into Acting: Joyeeta's Tamasha moment 12:30 Getting noticed in Bollywood 17:00 Meeting Shahrukh Khan 24:00 Dealing with Fame 26:00 The Acting Process 30:00 Commercial Cinema vs Parallel Cinema 35:30 Networking and Socializing 42:00 Shahrukh Khan obsession part 2 45:20 Rang De Basanti and Highway 51:00 Wokeness, Representation and being critical of the past 57:30 What are we watching? 1:02:30 Tabu obsession 1:09:30 What's your journey? 1:14:00 People we want to work with 1:18:00 Chilling

Too little, I feel, is talked about heartbreak which arises from friendships which come unstuck. It's almost as if it doesn't require comment or commiseration if it's not love. There's injustice there.  When the truth is that closely wrought bonds which are non sexual often give more shelter to the soul than love can ever do. Friendship is a live-in relationship for the soul. Where everything precious holds true, but no bond paper is signed. Friendship often frees you more preciously than how love binds you. Vikram Seth wrote in his poem, A Style of Loving -    Light now restricts itself To the top half of trees; The angled sun Slants honey-coloured rays That lessen to the ground As we bike through The corridor of Palm Drive We two Have reached a safety the years Can claim to have created: Unconsumated, therefore Unjaded, unsated. Picnic, movie, ice-cream; Talk; to clear my head Hot buttered rum - coffee for you; And so not to bed And so we have set the question Aside, gently. Were we to become lovers Where would our best friends be? You do not wish, nor I To risk again This savoured light for noon's High joy or pain.   Love seeks adventure, friendship is already one; love is cautious as there is so much breakable which is at stake, but friendship thrives on risk - without it it withers, dies. There is reverse alchemy in friendship. What would life be without the wild indulgences with friends - the late nights, the drives, drinking binges, closing up to each other's secrets, opening up to our  black holes. There is a bond of shared blood between friends which no amount of shared intimacy between lovers can ever be able to replace.   Friendships do turn to love affairs. And if expectations don't drown its unfettered madness and outrageous  indulgences and intravenous bonding, it would be the greatest love affair possible.   If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems which talk of possibilities of friendship and love  - A Summery Love Story (in the middle of winter)  It Takes a Long Time to Arrive From Not Very Far Away Call Me By Your Name Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup. Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com Subscribe to my incandescent and poetic newsletter The Uncuts here - https://theuncuts.substack.com.   The details of the music used in this episode are as follows - The Zone by Sascha Ende® Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/270-the-zone License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

Life is beautiful, but we are too busy to notice. Writing is one way to capture the world, and to make our journey memorable. Amitava Kumar joins Amit Varma in episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his journey as an author, journalist, artist, Instagrammer -- and to explain the joys of slow-jamming the news. Also check out:1. Amitava Kumar on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon, Vassar and his own website. 2. The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal -- Amitava Kumar. 3. Husband Of A Fanatic -- Amitava Kumar. 4. A Matter of Rats -- Amitava Kumar. 5. Writing Badly is Easy -- Amitava Kumar. 6. Pyre -- Amitava Kumar. 7. Beautiful World, Where Are You -- Sally Rooney. 8. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 9. Susan Sontag and Joan Didion on Amazon. 10. Dom Moraes, Khushwant Singh and Suketu Mehta on Amazon. 11. Despatches 15: A World of Stopped Watches -- Amit Varma. 12. A Picture of Hell, and No Kerosene -- Amit Varma. 13. Why I Write -- George Orwell. 14. John Berger and William Maxwell on Amazon. 15. Austerlitz -- WG Sebald. 16. The Art of Translation -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha). 17. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar. 18. Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures — Episode 17 of Conversations With Tyler. 19. The Notebook Trilogy — Agota Kristof. 20. Ved Mehta and VS Naipaul on Amazon. 21. India: A Million Mutinies Now -- VS Naipaul. 22. JM Coetzee, Janet Malcolm, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Pankaj Mishra and Amit Chaudhuri on Amazon. 23. Chandrahas Choudhury at The Middle Stage and Instagram.. 24. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma. 25. Why Are My Episodes so Long? -- Amit Varma. 26. Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 27. Letters from a Father to his Daughter -- Jawaharlal Nehru. 28. The Mahatma and the Poet — The letters between Gandhi and Tagore, compiled by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. 29. Zadie Smith and Teju Cole on Amazon. 30. Symphony No.3, Op.36 -- Henryk Gorecki. 31. Nehru's Debates -- Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.) 32. Nehru: The Debates that Defined India — Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain. 33. Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy. 34. Martin Amis on Amazon. 35. The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro. 36. Court -- Chaitanya Tamhane. 37. The Disciple -- Chaitanya Tamhane. 38. Ted Hughes and Colm Toibin on Amazon. 39. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen. 40. How Social Media Threatens Society — Episode 8 of Brave New World (Jonathan Haidt speaking to host Vasant Dhar). 41. Memories and Things -- Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra). 42. Rahul Roy (documentary filmmaker) on IMDb. 43. Most of Amit Varma's writing on Demonetisation, collected in one Twitter thread. 44. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman -- Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 45. The Odd Woman and the City — Vivian Gornick. 46. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran. 47. Amit Varma's tweet thread about AI writing fiction. 48. I Vitelloni and Amarcord by Federico Fellini. 49. Eho -- Dren Zherka. 50. Charulata and Aranyer Din Ratri by Satyajit Ray. 51. Ashis Nandy on Amazon. 52. The Prem Panicker Files -- Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen. 53. Prem Panicker in The Windowpane Sessions. 54. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal and Nishant Jain. 55. Hermit in Paris -- Italo Calvino. 56. Sophie Calle on Wikipedia. 57. Sophie Calle and the Art of Leaving a Trace -- Lili Owen Rowlands. 58. Sankarshan Thakur on Amazon and Twitter. 59. Penelope Fitzgerald on Amazon. 60. So Long, See You Tomorrow -- William Maxwell. 61. Citizen: An American Lyric -- Claudia Rankine. 62. Waiting for the Barbarians -- JM Coetzee. 63. Disgrace -- JM Coetzee. 64. Voices From Chernobyl -- Svetlana Alexievich. 65. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth. 66. English, August: An Indian Story -- Upamanyu Chatterjee. 67. Raag Darbari -- Shrilal Shukla. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free!

In this episode we discuss:How do you survive during an unpaid sabbatical?The psychological stress of not having a salaryWhat Vikram learned about psychology from Elon Musk at UniversityThe 2,000 year old ritual that Tim Ferriss still practices to prepare for adversity If you want to start something new, should you burn your bridges or leave yourself an escape?Overcoming the limiting belief that you are your jobThe massive lie hidden in our education and employment systemsThe creative approach to work that unites the greatest thinkers from Richard Feynman to Ernest Hemingway, David Ogilvy, and Richard BransonTactics for tapping into your subconscious mind to overcome creative blocksDealing with the mental struggle of asking your first clients for moneyWhy Vikram (an economist) and his brother Mrinal (a designer and developer) started teaching traditional Indian dance classesThe common denominator that determines your success in any business or jobShould you "scratch your own itch" when starting a business?How to deal with starting a business and having zero customers show upThe Magic of the Internet, Micro-niches, and following your own passionHow the internet is "undoing the industrial revolution" for creatorsGoing in to "Fear Mode"Balancing "scale of impact" vs "direct impact"What if you could keep your job and pursue your passion? Links to Resources and Books Mentioned:Vikram on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vsethco)Bounce Bhangra Website (https://bouncebhangra.com/)Bounce Bhangra on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bouncebhangra/)Tim  Ferriss on Practicing Poverty (https://tim.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/137-tim-ferriss-how-to-practice-poverty-and-reduce-fear.pdf)Kevin Kelly's essay "1,000 True Fans" (https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/)

In this episode we talk about:“The Great Resignation” happening now. Why are workers quitting jobs?What is a sabbatical?What forced Vikram to re-evaluate his life and confront his own mortalityHow do you arrange a sabbatical with your boss?The two things you need to do before you can ask for extended time off“Hunting like a lion” at workManaging your schedule and your energy to do your best creative workHow to play to your strengths and gain leverage in negotiations at workSo you've arranged a year off… now what? How should you use that time?A fateful first stop in Dubai, leaning in to serendipity and where it leadsWhat a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation retreat teaches youHow to get out of your head and back into your bodyEastern vs Western views of time. “Transcend and include”Zooming out to see the “upward Spiral Graph”What is Hindu philosophy, once you strip away all the mythology?Mysticism and the power of direct experienceConsensus mechanisms and why crypto gives Vikram hope for humanityLinks to Resources and Other Books Mentioned:Vikram on TwitterBounce Bhangra WebsiteBounce Bhangra on Instagram Confessions of an Economic HitmanVipassanaIdo PortalWim HofMammalian Dive Reflex 

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/india/the-indian-american-paradox-indians-expect-them-to-be-indians-but-they-are-not-10185071.html so please read it there. The podcast can be heard above by clicking the ‘Play’ button. The promotion of Parag Agarwal to the position of CEO of Twitter created a bit of a commotion online. Many celebrated the fact that several Indian-origin people now head large technology companies such as Alphabet, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and now Twitter. Elon Musk said something to the effect that he appreciated talented people from India.Others bemoaned the fact that many Indians apparently had to leave the country to do well. The usual reasons were trotted out: reservations prevent the meritorious from rising; the bureaucrats and the system mess everything up; there is no room for independent thought, and you must kowtow to the Big Men on Campus; and so on. There is a little truth in all of them.In this narrative, the US is the place where they reward merit; there is opportunity for all; and if you keep your nose clean and work hard and produce results, why, they will let you rise to the top. There is a little truth in all these claims as well. But that’s not the whole story, either.The fact is that there is a brutal selection process. Among a billion people, surely there are some who are exceptional, and some more who are outstanding. So the fact that a few Indian-Americans do well may also be attributed to the fact that they are not 1%ers, but 0.001%ers. They might truly stand out in any crowd. But that doesn’t mean the average Indian-American is doing amazingly well.Having been one of said average Indian-Americans before returning to India, I have seen the beast from the inside. We saw an opportunity and took full advantage of it. Those fortunate enough to get through the IIT JEE got a world-class engineering education for peanuts, subsidized heavily by the taxpayer.Then we managed to get into good US universities because of good test-taking skills, GRE scores, and grades. They gave us financial aid for graduate school; we got jobs, and at least in my day, got the coveted Green Card in a year or two. Then we raised families, and lived middle-class lives (or better, if we managed to join the right startups). We began enjoying a kind of American Dream.We made annual trips to India, though the kids rebelled against the heat and dust. We forced the kids to attend Indian classical music or dance classes, and the Tiger Mothers amongst us groomed them to win Spelling Bees and get perfect 4.0s and perfect 800s in the SATs, and get into Ivy League schools and onwards to med and law school.Thanks for reading Shadow Warrior! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Somewhere along the line, especially after our parents died, we realized that we had almost nothing that connected us back to the old country, especially now that we, finally, caved in and acquired our US citizenship. It’s just easier to travel with, we’d console ourselves, and in any case, just like Jews did about Jerusalem, we could always toast each other: “Next year in Mumbai” when we got together for a Christmas party.Imperceptibly, as Vikram Seth, who knew a thing or two about the California of the 1980s, wrote in ‘Diwali’, America rose, and India sank in their hearts:… Kalidas, Shankaracharya,Panini, Bhaskar, Kabir,Surdas sank, and we welcomedThe reign of Shakespeare….This is not to blame anybody’s life choices. It is a dilemma: should you immerse yourself in the culture of where you live, or should you hang on to an identity that you once had? Bharati Mukherjee, who best chronicled immigrant angst (Jhumpa Lahiri is second-generation), felt that one had to abandon, in fact cremate, the old identity; and immerse oneself in the melting pot.Let me note in passing that this is the life of upwardly mobile Indians, some of whom have become fabulously wealthy, and the rest are solidly middle-class or upper-middle class. They are at ease in American society, contribute to National Public Radio, read the New York Times, go to the Opera, the Symphony, and Lake Tahoe, to be simpatico with their native peers, even if they don’t enjoy it very much. They may also have married Americans.There is another whole class of bluish-collar Indians, and they tend to carry a cocoon of Indian-ness with them. They mostly socialize with the local Malayali Association, the Tamil Manram, the Bengali group, etc. They live in America, but they are not of America. That, too, is a reasonable choice, and some of them end up wintering in India as they get older. There is a small connection left.What is the point in all this? It is to emphasize that it is futile to expect Indian-American CEOs to suddenly swing their companies in directions that help India, or Hindus. They have other compulsions, and they don’t find it advantageous to wear their Indian origin on their sleeves. They have assimilated, and probably acquired native prejudices about India.The narrative about India, assiduously cultivated by the Deep State and its organs, is that it is a benighted place, should be balkanized, is full of “beastly natives with their beastly religion”, as infamously said by war criminal Winston Churchill. The ‘caste, curry and cows’ narrative, in Rajiv Malhotra’s words. Indian Americans over time begin to believe that narrative.The other thing that I find odd is the cult-like obsession many Indian Americans have with the Democratic Party. I used to identify myself as a Democrat, but over time I began to believe that their world view and narrative are fundamentally in conflict with both India’s interests and the US’s own long-term survival. So I became a Republican, although that I am aware of their (many) faults. But I believe they are better for the US and for India in the medium term.I am in a WhatsApp group of former IIT classmates, and I am astonished at their groupthink about Biden, Fauci, far-left Democratic politicians, and so on. They swallow as the truth and the whole truth anything that is pushed by their favorite media. An Indian leftist piles on to this love-fest despite knowing virtually nothing about the US. Similarly, most of my old acquaintances in Silicon Valley are staunch Democrats, anti-Modi and pro-Congress. It seems to be a package deal.Let us be very clear. Indian-Americans may do well in America. Good for them! That has nothing to do with India, except that they may urge their companies to invest in India, if it makes financial sense for the company. I did this: with a colleague named Deepak B, I got my former Silicon Valley employer to invest in India. I chose to stay on in India; Deepak, bless him, must still be in California.1130 words, 2 December 2021 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

If you're a creative person, there is no better time to be alive. Roshan Abbas joins Amit Varma in episode 239 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his remarkable journey as a creator -- and to explain why the best is yet to come. Also check out: 1. Roshan Abbas on Twitter, Instagram and his own homepage. 2. Kommune on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 3. Speechless: What would you say if your life depended on it? A Pocket-Guide to Public Speaking -- Roshan Abbas and Siddharth Banerjee. 4. Always Kabhi Kabhi, directed by Roshan Abbas, on ErosNow, JioCinema, Amazon (DVD) and Amazon Prime (outside India).  5. A Road Less Travelled -- Roshan Abbas's TedX talk. 6. Roshan Abbas interviewed by Vishal Gondal, Varun Duggirala and Cyrus Broacha. 7. Tom Peters on Amazon -- and VUCA in Wikipedia. 8. A Creator of the Floating World -- Episode 218 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Varun Duggirala). 9. Dreamy Dutch Coffee -- Prahniika Borkar | The Storytellers 10. Storytelling and Conversation -- Episode 197 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Neelesh Misra). 11. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly. 12. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin. 13. How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers -- Ali Abdaal. 14. My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers -- Ali Abdaal. 15. Amit Varma's session on podcasting for Chalchitra Talks with Varun Duggirala & others. 16. Select episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on Indian agriculture: 1, 2, 3, 4. 17. Osho Jain on Instagram, and Prateek Kuhad and Ankur Tiwari on YouTube. 18. A Scientist in the Kitchen -- Episode 204 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Krish Ashok). 19. Twitter and Tear Gas — Zeynep Tufekci. 20. Radically Networked Societies -- Episode 158 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane). 21. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen. 22. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma. 23. Biology - A Functional Approach -- MBV Roberts. 24. Confluence of Cultures -- Saiyed Anwer Abbas. 25. Amit Varma on the Getting Meta podcast, hosted by Deepak Gopalakrishnan. 26. An Adman Reflects on Society & the Self -- Episode 199 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ambi Parameswaran). 27. Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything -- Elizabeth Gilbert. 28. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity -- Julia Cameron. 29. All You Who Sleep Tonight -- Vikram Seth. 30. Everybody Hurts -- REM. 31. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted -- Episode 200 of The Seen and the Unseen, in which Amit Varma talks about his own creator journey. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! And check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

You read that right. Your favourite indie music podcast and your favourite literature podcast have joined forces for the crossover of all crossovers! Mae Mariyam Thomas is joined by your favourite Lit Pickers Supriya Nair and Deepanjana Pal, as they leap off the page straight into the cassette tape, exchanging reccos of their favourite books and podcasts all about music. All this, leading upto the much-awaited release of season 2 of The Lit Pickers on Friday, August 6th! Reccos in this episode: 02:45 - The Painter: A Life of Ravi Varma by Deepanjana Pal (2009) 07:01 - Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay's Jazz Age by Naresh Fernandes (2012) 08:13 - Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010) 08:39 - India Psychedelic: The Story of Rocking Generation by Sidharth Bhatia (2014) 10:24 - Life by James Fox and Keith Richards (2010) 13:31 - Sebastian and Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers by T. M. Krishna (2020) 16:47 - The works of Theodor W. Adorno 17:58 - An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (1999) 18:11 - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (2014) 19:13 - Song Exploder by Hrishikesh Hirway 20:47 - Switched On Pop hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding and produced by Vulture 25:07 - Earworm by Vox 26:22 - Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (2007) 29:30 - Season 2 of The Lit Pickers! Come be our friend: Facebook @maedinindia Instagram @maedinindia Twitter @maedinindia CREDITS: Host: Mae Twitter: @maebemaebe Instagram: @maemariyam Audio Editor Post: Kartik Kulkarni Producer: Shaun Fanthome and Husein Haveliwala

In this episode, Karthik speaks with veteran publisher Sridhar Balan about his book 'Off the shelf - on the book, book people and places' (Speaking Tiger, 2019). They discuss some of the most interesting stories from Sridhar's journey of publishing - which takes them to great books, authors, and interesting incidents. In the process, they discuss some of the idiosyncrasies of the business in the 80s and how publishing itself has evolved in India over the last many decades. Their discussion takes them through many anecdotes involving authors like Vikram Seth, Ruskin Bond, Salim Ali, and Jim Corbett.Tweet to Karthik Nagarajan (@The_Karthik): https://twitter.com/The_Karthik and follow his WordPress handle here (filterkoffee.com).You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com

What exactly is going on between India and China? When cooperation would lead to a win-win game, why is there conflict? Kanti Bajpai joins Amit Varma in episode 234 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his Four Ps framework for understanding this conflict. Also discussed: academia, public intellectuals, how one learns, and why writing and teaching make you a better thinker Also check out: 1. India Versus China : Why They Are Not Friends -- Kanti Bajpai. 2. Roots of Terrorism -- Kanti Bajpai. 3. Kanti Bajpai on Amazon. 4. The China Dude Is in the House -- Episode 231 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manoj Kewalramani). 5. The Dragon and the Elephant — Episode 181 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Hamsini Hariharan & Shibani Mehta). 6. What Does China Want? — Episode 143 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manoj Kewalramani). 7. Understanding Terrorism -- Amit Varma's 2007 review of Alan Krueger's What Makes a Terorrist.8. Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics -- Joseph Nye. 9. The Future of Power -- Joseph Nye. 10. Roam Research. 11. Why India and China Are Not Friends -- Kanti Bajpai on The Grand Tamasha podcast, hosted by Milan Vaishnav. 12. A Cricket Tragic Celebrates the Game -- Episode 201 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ramachandra Guha). 13. The Hedgehog And The Fox -- Isaiah Berlin. 14. Kishore Mahbubani on Amazon. 15. Imagined Communities -- Benedict Anderson. 16. Memories and Things -- Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra). 17. The Mahatma and the Poet — The Tagore-Gandhi debates. 18. From Heaven Lake -- Vikram Seth. 19. Finding India in China -- Anurag Viswanath. 20. Strangers across the Border -- Reshma Patil. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! And check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

This poem is by the Indian novelist and poet, Vikram Seth, most well known (I think) for his whopping doorstop of a novel “A Suitable Boy”. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hickey-mt/message

Carol Ann and I discuss the reading adventures she discovered during quarantine, and we both bring books to talk about that we've read and liked lately, from music to paradise to lesser known presidents.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 219: These Chickens Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan MeissnerBrood by Jackie PolzinWinter in Paradise by Elin HilderbrandThe Ensemble by Aja GabelThe Unexpected President by Scott S. GreenbergerOther mentions:Hidden Brain podcastAdventures by the BookNovel NetworkBeneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark SullivanAmerican Hookup by Lisa WadeNew York Times review of BroodThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyWhat Happens in Paradise by Elin HilderbrandTroubles in Paradise by Elin HilderbrandAn Equal Music by Vikram SethThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsDestiny of the Republic by Candice Millard The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanAn Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie SmithAtlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky, translated by Christine LoRelated episodes:Episode 103 - Duchess Potatoes with Carol Ann EllisonEpisode 164 - Character Driven with Carol AnnEpisode 187 - Sentient Snails and Spaceships with PaulaStalk us online: Carol Ann at GoodreadsCarol Ann is @thebookandbeyond on Instagram  Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

In Episode 6 of the EWBR podcast, Anisha and Dhruv discuss books that were successfully adapted for cinema and television, including Sally Rooney's Normal People and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Then there's Alfonso Cuarón's version of the enduring Dickens classic, Great Expectations and Vishal Bhardwaj's epic Hindi Shakespearean trilogy. Also, accidental Veganism, dry January and miscellaneous food trends (activated charcoal muffins, anyone?!) EPISODE 6 SHOW NOTES  (Please note show notes may include affiliate links)  WATCH AND BINGE READ  Normal People by Sally Rooney  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571334650 (book)  TV Show: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571367863 (script)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089g8rs/episodes/guide (TV show)  Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099765219 (book)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club (movie)  Choke by Chuck Palanuik https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/22/fiction.chuckpalahniuk  Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571333134  Atonement by Ian Mcewan   https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099507383 (book)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_%28film%29 (movie)  The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099532927 (book)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_%28film%29 (movie)  Forrest Gump  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781405876759 (book)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump (movie)  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571335770 (book)  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571275489 (script)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_%282010_film%29 (movie)  The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571325689  Jhumpa Lahiri discussed in episode 1  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571322732  The Goldfinch by Donna Tart  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780349139630 (book)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goldfinch_%28film%29 (movie)  A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Suitable_Boy_%28TV_series%29 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781989631928 (book)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119223/ (movie)  Two other movies by Alfonso Cuarón:  Y Tu Mamá También https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_11  Roma https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_3  Fitoor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitoor  King Uncle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Uncle  Hamlet by Shakespeare https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780199535811  Haider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haider_%28film%29  Othello by Shakespeare https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781678146269  Omkara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omkara_%282006_film%29  Jane Austen's complete works https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781474938143  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780593118092 (book)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3281548/ (movie)  EAT  Veganuary  Dry January Food and cultural appropriation discussed in Episode 4  Activated charcoal infused food Mushroom Coffee --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eatwatchbingeread/message

In Episode 5 of the EWBR Podcast, Anisha and Dhruv talk about their favourite books and authors, including Ernest Hemingway, David Szalay, Judy Blume, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Seth. Then there are some great recommendations for children's books by Russian authors. Also, the machiavellian politics of The Morning Show, verbose Aaron Sorkin vehicle The Newsroom, Defending Jacob and the fluffy Anna Kendrick starrer, Love Life. (Please note show notes may include affiliate links) WATCH The Morning Show - Apple TV https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-morning-show/umc.cmc.25tn3v8ku4b39tr6ccgb8nl6m The Dark Knight (movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film) The Newsroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newsroom_(American_TV_series) The West Wing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing Almost Famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Famous Watchmen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_%28TV_series%29 Defending Jacob - Apple TV https://tv.apple.com/us/show/defending-jacob/umc.cmc.5h5mr0shyyqqahqdv55ywyilr Primal Fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Fear_%28film%29 Love Life - BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08nbxcw/love-life BINGE READ A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781447294832 (also discussed in episode 1) Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099285038 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781781396803 The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780007141784 Summer Sisters by Judy Blume https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780751542738 All That Man Is by David Szalay https://uk.bookshop.org/books/all-that-man-is-shortlisted-for-the-man-booker-prize-2016/9780099593690 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781474618793 An Equal Music by Vikram Seth https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780753807736 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780006550686 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241980767 When Daddy Was a Little Boy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672414-when-daddy-was-a-little-boy Eleven Stories for Boys and Girls https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646895.Eleven_Stories_for_Boys_and_Girls The Adventures of Dunno and Friends by Nikolay Nosov https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1137064.The_Adventures_of_Dunno_and_his_Friends?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=d2PpTgej1H&rank=1 AND NOTHING TO EAT THIS WEEK! You can find the Eat, Watch and Binge Read Podcast @eatwatchbingeread https://instagram.com/eatwatchbingeread You can find Anisha on her blog Fashion and Frappes http://www.fashionandfrappes.com and on Instagram as https://instagram.com/fashionandfrappes Dhruv is shy and likes to pretend he's mysterious (also he can't "work the internet") so he's probably reachable at @eatwatchbingeread https://instagram.com/eatwatchbingeread --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eatwatchbingeread/message

A poem a day keeps the sadness at bay.

The youth wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in India has registered a police complaint against Netflix, alleging that the BBC adaptation of A Suitable Boy has hurt religious sentiments.

Today we are joined by Diksha Basu, the author of our November Book Club pick, Destination Wedding. We are so excited to get the inside scoop on this book! Diksha is an author, former actress, and academic from New Delhi, India, and she now divides her time between New York City and Bombay.    We explore what ‘home’ means to her, and how that influenced this book. She shares her unique writing process, starting with character development before plot. We also talk about our favorite character (Tina, who we want to be our BFF) and our least favorite (Marianne) and the inspiration behind them.    More Diksha: @dikshabasu  on twitter @Diksha_basu on insta Bookshop.org to buy her books  Please send her a message if you liked the book! Favorite Indian Authors: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Favorite Pakistani Authors: Moth Smoke by Moshin Hamid Moni Mohsin Rohinton Mistry Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth   Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

In India is ophef ontstaan over een scène in de serie A Suitable Boy, naar de beroemde roman van Vikram Seth, die nu te zien is op Netflix. Daarin kust een moslimjongen met een hindoemeisje en dat zou ‘love jihad’ promoten. Volgens deze Indiase complottheorie proberen moslimmannen op slinkse wijze hindoevrouwen te bekeren onder het mom van liefde. De commotie komt op het moment dat verschillende Indiase deelstaten juist bezig zijn wetgeving door te voeren tegen moslimmannen die hindoebruiden onder dwang zouden bekeren tot de islam. De BJP-partij van premier Narendra Modi wil nu via wetten gemengde huwelijken tussen moslims en hindoes ontmoedigen. India-correspondent Eva Oude Elferink hierover vanuit Mumbai.

This week, Lindelani and Nontsi chat with Sunaina Kumar, about her wonderful piece (featured in the titled Kingdom from which we learn about the "aristocrats, enigmatic wives, and spymasters in the drama of Sikkim’s merger with India."   Sunaina's writings: 1. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/uighur-exiles-kashmir-heaven-161117133848689.html (A story of a hidden community of Uighurs living in Kashmir from the time of Silk Route trade) 2. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/peoples-linguistic-survey-of-india-ganesh-devy (A story on a man who set out to count every language in India, he found 780) 3. https://narratively.com/the-diver-who-brings-up-the-bodies/ (A story on a man whose job it is to dive in the water to bring out bodies of farmers who commit suicide in north India) Sunaina's recommendations for the holiday season: 1. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford  2. Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and the new adaptation of the book by Mira Nair on Netflix, an enduring story from India 3. The Jungle Prince of Delhi by Ellen Barry, widely shared but always worth talking about as long-form inspiration

Belinda talks to Sophia about her love of travel, being funny in Peru, and why Morocco is definitely worth visiting. Floaters is beyond excited to share this episode with you all and can't wait to read your comments!Belinda recommends: Modeste Hugues Randriamahitasoa's new album, Songs From Madagascar, Utopia by David Mitchell, Girl, Woman,Other by Bernadine Evaristo, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and TV series Engrenages (Spiral) Thanks to Adaora for graphics @adaorasoludo and Aral for sound help. You can check out Aral's website here www.aralbar.comKeep up to date with us on Instagram @floaters_podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roadkill: a British four-part television political thriller starring Hugh Laurie as a self-made, forceful and charismatic politician positioned in the cabinet as Minister for Transport whose public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is being picked apart by his enemies (TVNZ OnDemand, from 9 November).A Suitable Boy: based on the novel by Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy is a vast, panoramic tale charting the fortunes of four large families, exploring India and its rich and varied culture at a crucial point in its history (Netflix).The South Westerlies: A lighthearted drama about a town in the south west of Ireland that is earmarked for a Norwegian-owned offshore wind farm, and the woman who is tasked by her company NorskVentus to go undercover and quash local objections (Acorn TV).LISTEN ABOVE TO TARA WARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

Monisha Rajesh on Getting Published, Travelling with Kids, and Why Diversity Matters. Is being a travel writer all it's cracked up to be? In this interview episode, award-winning author Monisha Rajesh shares tales of her train journeys across the world and the details of how she made (and funds) her career. She also highlights some of the pitfalls along the way. This episode is packed with tips on everything from "travelling with kids", to "how to break into journalism". Monisha also explains just why we need more diverse voices in travel writing. In this episode, discover: How Monisha became a travel journalist and wrote a book, despite having never considered it as a career. How to make ends meet with writing and how Monisha travelled for 4 months on less than £1,500. Why you should strategise in order to succeed. The future of travel writing in the age of social media. Why we need greater diversity in travel writing and how we create change. How to travel with kids. Links/people mentioned in this episode: Monisha website http://www.80trains.com  Monisha Instagram https://www.instagram.com/monisha_rajesh/  Monisha Twitter https://twitter.com/monisha_rajesh  David Godwin http://www.davidgodwinassociates.com/blog/2015/2/27/around-the-world-in-80-trains-monisha-rajesh-to-be-published-by-bloomsbury  Civilian Global http://civilianglobal.com/author/monisha-rajesh/  William Dalrymple http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com  Noo Saro-Wiwa: “Looking for Transwonderland” https://www.amazon.co.uk/Looking-Transwonderland-Travels-Noo-Saro-Wiwa/dp/1847083315  Vikram Seth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Seth  Paul Theroux: “The Great Railway Bazaar” https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Through-Classics/dp/0141189142   Dervla Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervla_Murphy  Sara Wheeler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Wheeler  Kiran Desai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Desai  JOIN US ON SOCIAL: We'd love to hear what you think of this week's The First Mile and if you've got any suggestions of topics or people you'd like to hear interviewed. Drop us a line on Instagram @ashbhardwaj and @pipstewart or Twitter @AshBhardwaj and @Stewart_Pip.   *Please consider leaving a review if you enjoyed this episode. Thank you! 

Is Mira Nair's A Suitable Boy a faithful adaptation of Vikram Seth's lengthy novel, or does it get tangled up in its own excesses and restrictions? We also talk about its ensemble cast, the show's relevance to today's India, and whether making it largely in English was a good idea. Later, we discuss the reopening of Indian cinemas during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and whether or not we'd go to the movies if work demanded it. — Hosted by Akhil Arora and Rohan Naahar, The Long Take is fully bootstrapped. Please consider donating if you enjoy our work. The Long Take is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, JioSaavn, and wherever you get your podcasts. Follow The Long Take on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Write to us at thelongtakepod@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-long-take/support

"A Suitable Boy to me is long-form cinema" - Mira Nair, Ishaan Khatter & Tanya Maniktala chat with Anupama Chopra about their Netflix series that releases on October 23rd. They speak about re-creating Vikram Seth's novel set in the 1950s, finding their characters and their backstories and why they refer to it as 'The Crown in brown'!

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The Indian filmmaker spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's bestselling novel. The series was the closing night presentation at TIFF 2020.

Acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair discusses her newest work, "A Suitable Boy," a captivating BBC miniseries, premiering at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. The series is based on Vikram Seth's epic novel of the same name. Nair's revious work include "Salaam Bombay," "Mississippi Masala," "Monsoon Wedding," and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mihir Bose, author of over 30 books and the BBC's first sports news editor has analysed and reported global sport incisively for nearly 50 years.  He has written with special authority about Indian cricket, tracing its journey from colonial dependency to superpower in his book Nine Waves. He is the guest of Peter Oborne and  Richard Heller  in their  latest cricket-themed podcast. He explains how the Board of Control for India (BCCI) acquired its dominance over world cricket through its commercial revenues and as gatekeeper for tours by India (which for England are now more profitable than Ashes tours by Australia). In consequence, cricket has effectively become the first world sport controlled by non-white people. However, he sees the BCCI as more focused on local rivalries and Indian political agendas than on its new responsibilities to global cricket. After scandals which provoked judicial intervention, the BCCI has a high-profile new chairman, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly: Mihir Bose assesses his chances of achieving reform.He sees no hope of overcoming the political obstacles set by the Modi government against restoring bilateral series between India and Pakistan, despite the warm relations between players and past officials on both sides.He explains how the IPL has transformed the finances of Indian cricket and the location of power within it.There was nothing inevitable about the rise of cricket as India's major sport: soccer could easily have become more popular. Mihir Bose tells the fascinating story of how Nehru saved Indian cricket from international extinction – at just the time when India's footballers ruled themselves out of the 1950 World Cup by insisting on playing in bare feet. Looking further back, he traces the support Indian cricket received from its religious communities (who played tournaments in great harmony in times of great political tensions) and from generally minor princes who used cricket to bolster their claims  to their thrones. The prime example was Ranjitsinhji. The first Indian global celebrity cricketer, he saw himself as totally English and did nothing for Indian cricket: Mihir Bose speculates that this was partly due to his secret love life.Initially a victim of Indian cultural snobbery about sport in general (shared by Gandhi), cricket is now a rich subject for modern Indian novelists such as Vikram Seth and has had a long relationship with its film makers. Mihir Bose tells how a great Indian movie star actually forced an Indian captain to declare so that he could watch a few overs of Australia batting.Mihir Bose met a young Sunil Gavaskar at school – but denies that he taught him his perfect defensive technique. However, he has mentored many other players especially as a touring captain in India. He relates the Incident outside the Chepauk Stadium in what was then still called Madras which was even more horrific  than the run-out of Jeffrey Archer.Apart from Indian cricket, Mihir Bose has  done groundbreaking work on issues of race and discrimination in world  sport. He describes how he will be returning to this theme in a new book Impossible Dream. Although many non-white sportspeople have lately opened  up on their past experience of racism, Mihir Bose sees real encouragement in the sporting lives and status of present stars such as Raheem Stirleng and Moeen Ali (whom he assisted with his recent autobiography.) 

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The conversation is on serious intellectual territory when it suddenly takes an unexpected handbrake turn into shark pickling. (2.00) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (4.00) A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu (5.00) Cover art by Akiko Chan (8.00) Monkey Grip by Helen Garner (8.10) Head On Film based on the book Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas (8.50) The Trout, Music Film of 1969 with Du Pré, Perlman, Barenboim, Mehta & Zukerman on YouTube (9.10) An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (13.00) The Unbelievable Disappearance of Mars Patel (13.50) 99% Invisible Podcast - Ep 318 The Infantorium (16.30) Strong Songs Podcast - "Tightrope" by Janelle Monáe | "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age (18.00) Twins Reacts YouTube Channel | “Joelene” by Dolly Parton | “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins (19.20) CrossBread Podcast (21.00) Hamish Blake Instragram (23.50) Exciting Times By Naoise Dolan (26.00) The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 by Damien Hurst (27.50) The shark hunter, the artist and a nice little earner by Annabel Crabb (28.00) 10yo in stable condition after shark 'grabbed him from boat' on abc.net.au/news (32.00) Fanging It - Man fights off brown snake while speeding in central Queensland by Jessica Johnston Sponsor Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Produced by Diamantina Media

Adapting “A Suitable Boy”, Vikram Seth’s epic novel about marriage, politics and social upheaval in newly independent India, for the small screen was a labour of love for its director. Mira Nair talks to Anne McElvoy about why she worked with a white writer on this Indian classic, the eternal fascination of the matchmaker and the yoga pose that gets her in the right frame of mind.Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions: www.economist.com/podcastoffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adapting “A Suitable Boy”, Vikram Seth’s epic novel about marriage, politics and social upheaval in newly independent India, for the small screen was a labour of love for its director. Mira Nair talks to Anne McElvoy about why she worked with a white writer on this Indian classic, the eternal fascination of the matchmaker and the yoga pose that gets her in the right frame of mind.Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions: www.economist.com/podcastoffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mira Nair is one of the world’s great film directors. Born in India, but now a self-called ‘global citizen’, she has spent over 30 years making her mark, from Hollywood to Bollywood, and from the fun and laughter of Monsoon Wedding to the sharp politics of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. In the Studio joins Mira on location in the ancient city of Maheshwar, for her biggest and most ambitious project to date - a six-part television series for the BBC, based on Vikram Seth’s epic novel, A Suitable Boy. The novel encompasses many of the filmmaker’s favoured topics - family conflict, the portrayal of India, love, humour, beauty and politics. So when she heard it was being made into a TV series she says, “I threw my sari into the ring…It was something I had to do with every fibre of my creative journey.“ Mira Nair talks exclusively to Ravinder Bawa about her own creative journey - from small town girl, to world famous director – and shows how some of the most evocative and dynamic scenes are put together, with the film crew she uses in almost every film she makes.

An ebullient Jeffrey Archer shares his lifelong passion for cricket as the latest guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller on their regular cricket-themed podcast.He describes his earliest memories of watching his beloved English county Somerset at the Clarence Park ground in Weston-super-Mare (sadly no longer used for first-class matches). As a boy, he demonstrated entrepreneurial flair selling scorecards and especially teas: this inspired resistance from trade unions and helped to shape his political outlook as an opponent of the British Labour party.He gives vivid portraits of a host of cricketers he has befriended on and off the field, including:-Derek Underwood (he took revenge on him through a charity auction for two consecutive dismissals in a match)-Viv Richards (he sacrificed his wicket for him in a match at Taunton)-Clive Lloyd (brilliantly catching his other friend Sunil Gavaskar in delayed amends for dropping him during the latter's first great series in the West Indies). He also praises Clive Lloyd's dedication to the cause of young people in Britain and the West IndiesHe assesses Ian Botham, “a friend for over 50 years… the bravest swashbuckler I've ever encountered. Had he been born 20 years earlier, he would have won the VC in the war”. Having earned the CBE on retirement as a cricketer and a knighthood for his dedicated charity work, Botham now has a peerage for political reasons, but he will have a chance now to follow another friend and cricketing peer, Colin Cowdrey, as a frequent contributor to the House of Lords on sport and young people. (It leads him to a splendid story about Colin Cowdrey and Len Hutton.)Jeffrey Archer highlights his strong relationship with India (23 visits) and his friendships with cricketers including Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman (“their long partnership at Kolkata was the greatest day in Test history”) – friendships which began when they became readers of his during their long stays overseas. He would be glad to make a first visit to Pakistan and to do what he can to promote the restoration of bilateral cricket links between it and India. He explains why he has never put cricket into his novels (“200 million of my 300 million readers do not understand it”) but looks forward eagerly to the cricket match in the televised version of his friend Vikram Seth's great novel A Suitable Boy, which has just opened on BBC. Turning to art, he reveals his expert knowledge of how to pack a Caravaggio. Sadly, it is not one of his own, but he reveals his latest acquisition for his lavatory and how to get to it (“turn right at the Picasso.”)Cricket plays an important part in his three diaries of prison life. He describes encounters with murderers and serious villains who behaved very ethically on the cricket field.At last he gives his account of the terrible events following his run-out for the House of Lords against the House of Commons – when he had to placate a crowd  of 60,000 at the Oval, baying their disappointment at being deprived of the chance to see him score a fifty.Finally, he reveals his programme if offered the post of Prime Minister in a government of national salvation (he is still available for this, and as captain of England's cricket team). No one would be allowed to build anything on land used for cricket or any other sport. Above all, “every child will get a chance to have a chance” to fulfil their dreams and become the best they can be. 

Film director Mira Nair on A Suitable Boy - her six part BBC One adaptation of Vikram Seth's huge novel. Set in 1951 in newly independent, post-partition India, its cast of more than a hundred is entirely of Indian origin - the BBC’s first historical drama with no white characters. The book inspired Nair's film Monsoon Wedding, and she has long nursed an ambition to film it. How to Build a Girl is the film of Caitlin Moran’s autobiographical novel. We review it alongside Taylor Swift’s surprise album Folklore, released late last night. Film critic Hannah McGill and poet Be Manzini discuss both, and look at the week's arts news: the delay of big summer film releases and the introduction of an specialist afrobeats chart. McGill reports too on what’s happening in her home city, Edinburgh, which should now be busy preparing for the International, Fringe and the film festivals. In our series of interviews with the 10 artists who’ve each been awarded a £10,000 Tate bursary in place of this year’s Turner Prize, we hear from Glasgow-based Alberta Whittle. She has a Caribbean background and is in Barbados, from where she describes how her film, performance and collage work focuses on post-colonial power, battling anti-blackness, and the effects of climate devastation, something she witnesses first-hand in the hurricane season. Yesterday Andrew Lloyd Webber ran an experimental socially distanced performance in the London Palladium and made a speech saying, "Give us a date, mate." Matt Hemley of The Stage was there. He explains the experience, considers when that date for theatres to open - without social distancing - might be, and the precarious state of things...do Chinese developers have their eyes on the West End? Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Julian May

We're all about the witches this week as we unearth our belated review of Netflix's Arthurian epic, Cursed, and then sign up for Wiccan boot camp and the arrival of BBC3's army witch series, Fort Salem. Plus we're heading off to post-partition India for the adaptation of Vikram Seth's mammoth tome, A Suitable Boy. All the and a lot more discussion of fingering than you'll generally find on an average episode of the Pilot podcast, but you can all blame Terri for that.

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Three book reviews about musicianship: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor, and the movie A Late Quartet. You know you are hearing seasoned musicians from the very first notes. #bookreview #podcast #amwriting #musicianship Our show host Gerald Everett Jones is author of Bonfire of the Vanderbilts and the new mystery-thriller Preacher Finds a Corpse. There's advice for self-publishing authors at getpublishedradio.com. 

A sweeping and evocative portrait of an Egyptian family at a time of great social change, from Nobel Prizewinning author Naguib Mahfouz. 'Writing worthy of a Tolstoy, a Flaubert or a Proust' said The Independent newspaper but what did Laura's book club make of it? Listen in to find out, plus lots of great recommendations to help you find your next book club read. • Recommendations were Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh, The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and Sally recommended The Map of Love by Ahdef Soueif and The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning. • If you'd like to see what we're up to between episodes follow us on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email thebookclubreview@gmail.com. And if you like what we do please do take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to us on iTunes, it helps other listeners find us and means you'll never miss an episode.

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6 Jul, 10:00 In the finale of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French talks to the acclaimed director Mira Nair about why she shifted from documentary film-making to fiction, her adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece 'a Suitable Boy' and whether film-making is a political act.

In the finale of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French talks to the acclaimed director Mira Nair. They start by discussing Mira's beginnings and how her love for theatre eventually led to filmmaking. Mira discusses her connection to Odisha and to Delhi (4:08), why her films have an element of social realism (5:15), why she shifted from documentary making to feature films (6:50) and why no career move should be about stepping stones to a bigger target (12:10). Mira then talks about why filmmaking is a political act (14:40), her work in Kampala, Uganda (17:22) the abundance of female role models in her youth (20:50). Finally she dives in to the shooting of her current film, A Suitable Boy, an adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece (24:00) and how it looks at 1950s post-Independence India (27:20).

Three book reviews about musicianship: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor, and the movie A Late Quartet. You know you are hearing seasoned musicians from the very first notes. This featurette runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show with host Gerald Everett Jones, author of Bonfire of the Vanderbilts. There's more advice for self-publishing authors at getpublishedradio.com. #bookreview #podcast #amwriting

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Sometimes the line between memoir and novel is thinner than others. Keith Gessen came on the show this week to discuss his latest novel, A Terrible Country. Drawing on his own experience caring for his grandmother in Russia after graduating from college, Keith originally set out to write a much bigger book than the one he ended up with. He had fantasies of covering aspects of Russian culture in between the narrative sections, and coming up with – essentially – the Russian equivalent of A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. He won a fellowship to work out of the New York Public Library and had access to every book in the system and wrote with this vision of a large book in mind for the year he was in residence there. And then he sat down and read the result and was horrified to find that it bored him. In our conversation, we discuss how he pared it down into the final manuscript and the things that scared him along the way to a final novel. Keith is very open about his experience in a way that will make everyone listening remember that, even though you write a novel by yourself, you aren't alone in how scary it can feel to do it. This will be a great comfort if you feel any doubt about reaching the end. Let Keith be the voice from the light at the end of the tunnel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Na edição nº 3 (T1) da rúbrica FAZ-TE AO LIVRO, o professor Anibal Ruão da Escola Secundária de Vizela, propõe o livro UM BOM PARTIDO de Vikram Seth. 14-02-2018

Today's Guest: Adi Tantimedh, novelist, Her Nightly Embrace: Book 1 of the Ravi PI Series Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Adi Tantimedh by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of conspiratorial whisperers who know there are cameras and microphones recording their every move… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Her Nightly Embrace by Adi Tantimedh. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above! (EDITOR'S NOTE -- This is a very special interview. It is the 1,300th overall  post on Mr. Media and, coincidentally, it marks the site's 10th anniversary, February, 2017. Neither my guest nor I realized when this conversation was recorded that it would fall on such a significant occasion. Thank you to novelist Adi Tantimedh and thank you to the more than 4.5 million people who have visited, read, listened and watched Mr. Media over the past decade! -- Bob Andelman) I have to admit I was a bit skeptical of the detective novel Her Nightly Embrace when I read that the lead character, Ravi Singh, sees visions of Hindu gods wherever he goes. What? Oh, and I subtracted points for the back cover quote and endorsement from Deepak Chopra, of all people. ADI TANTIMEDH podcast excerpt: "Ravi used to be a religious scholar, which means he would be extremely well-read. And he's Hindu. If he's worried about karma, his life, the more deeply he gets into this world, how corrupt and evil it can get, I thought, 'What if he sees gods?' He would start to assume that he's going insane!" Fine man, that Deepak Chopra, but not exactly the guy I look for to offer recommendations of books about the adventures of a private detective. Michael Connolly, yes. Vikram Seth, yes. Deepak Chopra? Eh, not so much. But dammit, Deepak was right when he wrote that “Ravi is a character unlike any that readers have quite encountered before.” Her Nightly Embrace is a series of wack-a-doodle adventures introducing Ravi and the crew of screwups at the Golden Sentinels agency in London. Ravi, like the best PIs in 20th century detective literature, gets plenty of tail, by the way, but always at a steep price. And his family is a hoot and a half. La Muse by by Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above! Still not sure about the Hindu Gods, however, unless they are supposed to be the book’s version of a Greek chorus, offering commentary from the margins. I think the stories would soar just as high without them. ADI TANTIMEDH podcast excerpt: "I wondered if we could get a quote from Alan Moore since he was my writing teacher and I still talk with him weekly. But Deepak Chopra? I did some work on a video game that had Deepak Chopra's name on it, but I never met him. I'm surprised and perplexed (by his endorsement of 'Her Nightly Embrace')." Key interview moments: • 3:15 Novelist Adi Tantimedh can't explain why Deepak Chopra endorsed his first 'Ravi PI' novel, 'Her Nightly Embrace,' but he didn't turn him away, either; • 17:30 Tantimedh's anti-hero, Ravi, has issues every where in his life, including dealing with the local Asian housewife gangster who is shaking down his mother; • 31:15 An explanation--that makes sense--for why Ravi PH sees Hindu gods wherever he goes. Adi Tantimedh Twitter • Bleeding Cool • Goodreads • LA Muse     Order Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (2nd Edition) by Bob Andelman, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Indian writer Vikram Seth about his latest collection of poetry, Summer Requiem, which traces the dying days of summer and is haunted by loss and decay. The cuckoo's song may celebrate the arrival of spring, but as Nick Davies explains the cuckoo is also a signal of doom, as he explores how cheating evolves and thrives in the natural world. The writer Olivia Laing finds inspiration in a murmuration of birds to ask questions about the beauty of patterns and freedom of movement, and Nick Groom celebrates and regrets the passing of the English seasons and folklore. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Gerald reviews three stories that have musicianship as their theme: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, A Late Quartet (movie), and The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:40 pm PT.

This episode includes a little more conversation about the idea of dressing for other people and self-esteem (following on from last week), as well as a brief discussion on using Miss, Ms or Mrs. We then realised we were running out of time and squeezed in reviews of Citizenfour, Still Alice (the book and the movie), and A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth.

In 1935 a new school opened in India. The Doon School went on to produce some of the country's leading figures including former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and author Vikram Seth. We hear from one of the first pupils, award-winning journalist George Verghese.

A multi-media presentation of Vikram's Seth's The Golden Gate as Novel in Verse and Opera that includes readings of Seth's verse, a video of a 2010 staged workshop of the opera at Lincoln Center, and a discussion with composer Conrad Cummings. The homecoming is long overdue: The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth's 1986 novel-in-verse, was born among Stanford's sandstone buildings and palm trees. Now the Bay Area has a chance to hear highlights of composer Conrad Cummings' opera of the novel. John Henry Davis, who directed the Lincoln Center workshop production, also directs the Stanford program. Seth provides a video welcome. Sponsored by the English Department, American Studies Program, and the Arts Institute at Stanford University.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Vikram Seth. His novel A Suitable Boy was nearly a decade in the writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational period." Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Vikram Seth. His novel A Suitable Boy was nearly a decade in the writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational period." Producer: Leanne Buckle.

With Mark Lawson. David Fincher's directing credits include The Social Network, Fight Club, Se7en and Alien3, and his latest film is an adaptation of Stieg Larsson's book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, starring Daniel Craig. Fincher discusses his approach to filming a book that has already sold 65 million copies worldwide and been made into a successful trilogy of movies in Swedish. Mark Lawson and Jeff Park make their selection of crime books for Christmas including works by P D James, Umberto Eco and Anthony Horowitz. Vikram Seth is best known for his novel A Suitable Boy, but he's also written a series of opera libretti, as part of a collaboration with composer Alec Roth, and now published as The Rivered Earth. Vikram Seth discusses the working process and how a former owner of his house made a mark on the project. Producer Nicki Paxman.

With Mark Lawson. Singer and songwriter Carole King enjoyed her first hit fifty years ago, and released her landmark album Tapestry four decades ago. She discusses her career so far and her first-ever seasonal album, A Christmas Carole, including a Chanukah Prayer recorded with her daughter and grandson. Eddie Redmayne takes the title role in a new staging of Shakespeare's Richard II, directed by Michael Grandage. Adam Mars-Jones gives his verdict. Don DeLillo, whose novels include the epic Underworld, talks about his new collection of short stories, The Angel Esmeralda, and reflects on his approach to writing and the depictions of time and history shown in his work. Two films out this week make visual references to other films from the same production team. Mark Eccleston discusses the art of inter-film referencing, undertaken by directors including Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick. Producer Georgia Mann.

A music-packed episode of some of our favourite music from and about fiction! From concept albums to point-and-click adventures, and Vikram Seth to Rez and Stalwart. Musica comprimida - Compressed Music by Ferrari + caballos + fuerza = cerebro Humano  Send feedback and comments to show@scienceoffiction.co.uk.

SAJA presents a webcast on Wednesday about contemporary South Asian poetry, from the Diaspora and around the world. Join acclaimed poets and editors Ravi Shankar, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Patrick Rosal, Carolyne Wright, Kazim Ali and literary agent Sarah Jane Freymann to discuss the conception and shaping of the extraordinary anthology, "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East and Beyond." Hailed by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer as "a beautiful achievement for world literature," two of the co-editors will discuss the project with their agent and a contributor. The collection includes poets from 61 different countries writing in over 40 different languages and include poets such as Vikram Seth, Taslima Nasrin, Michael Ondaatje, Meena Alexander, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Jeet Thayil. Please join us with your questions and comments.

Vikram Seth joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel A Suitable Boy. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. Recorded May 2005. (Photo: BBC)