welcome kashish
oh noo.. what book was it? i missed out tooooo
How about discussing it every couple of chapters or so?
SOoooo,
Kya hua?
Are we reading God of small things?
I still need to pick it up from the library!!!
PS Muni, thanks for the link :k: :k: :k:
OOh yeah, I came across another title
*Desirable Daughters
by Bharati Mukherjee *
Desirable Daughters, by the prolific writer Bharati Mukherjee, whose short story collection The Middleman won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a masterful meditation on marriage and family ties. It begins on a fantastic note: on a winter night in an east Bengali village in 1879, the narrator's ancestor, 5-year-old Tara Lata, is married to a tree after her 13-year-old husband-to-be dies of a snakebite on their wedding day. The novel ends some 120 years later, when Tara, the 36-year-old narrator, returns to this same village in winter with her teenaged son. Like her ancestor, Tara Bhattacharjee is the youngest of three sisters of a Brahmin family. Although they grew up in Calcutta, Tara and the oldest sister now live in America while the middle sister lives in Bombay. Tara was married (in an arranged marriage) at age 19 to Bish Chatterjee, a genius who makes a fortune from a cutting-edge computer process. He and Tara are estranged when the novel opens, but when a stranger claiming kinship shows up at the house that Tara shares in San Francisco with her son and her boyfriend, she reconsiders her assumptions about her entire family. In the course of the novel, a sister's secret and a murder are uncovered, and a near-fatal bombing occurs. Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters is yet another of her magically written, compelling novels
Sure sounds interesting, I think we can a this one to the 'list' ?!
This maybe a bit of a different read but I found it a great source of information, to grasp important concepts and ideas of the past and particularly the present century(s).
Its called, "A World of Ideas: A dictionary of important theories, concepts, beliefs, and thinkers"
By: Chris Rohmann
Its easy-flow reading, and very interesting. A friend of mine (philosophy major) gave it to me as a gift and I recommend it to everyone. smile
I read mostly non-fiction.
Shinooo im readin the god of small things..
When are we gonna discuss? I need to discuss it.
Shinoo-
Desirable Daughters sounds like a good book. I wanna read it! i'd like to read it next but we have so many good books listed.
bibi that link is South Hindia rather than South Asia
Any Hanif Kurashi fans?
Black Album .. Hanif k .. highly recomended
Moth Smoke .. Mohsin hameed
Indus Saga ... Atziz Ahsan
Muni, that post about the White Moghuls is excellent. Thank you very much for sharing it here.
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bibi that link is South Hindia rather than South Asia
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Baba-
Netsap stands for Network of South Asian Professionals, and Hindia (as you so kindly put it) is part of the South Asia. I myself a muslim indian was part of this organization 3 years ago, although i was a minority being a muslim. I do know that there are a few more muslims and pakistanis nowadays than back in 2000.
Sambrialian-
I thought the article was excellent as well! I'm glad you enjoyed reading it. I can't wait till the book is available.