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I loved Naipaul's analogy of Benares with Washington DC - India's cosmic (and not just political) capital. what a way to look at the past!
the more I read Aatish Taseer - the more respect I come to feel for the guy. I have read his Islamic travelogue and it's probably the best observation on Islam since Naipaul himself. Of ocurse - because he does not do gutter inspection of the Slumdog kind - he will never win any Booker's like Suzie
Anyone here read Taseer's latest book about Delhi?
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Off topic:
"What took you guys so long to get?" spy Madhuri Gupta asked officials on getting nabbed and showed no repentance for what she had done.
Though she has not passed on much sensitive material, she has disclosed identities of intelligence officers posted as diplomats in Pakistan and in a few other Indian embassies, especially in south Asia and Middle East.
Dear Rajiv,
Somewhat unrelated, but your reader might find the attached link demonstrating the fallibility of India's EVM very interesting.
http://indiaevm.org/
Maybe Aatish is trying to get justice for his poor abandoned mom (the journalist Tavleen Singh) by highlighting the negative aspects of his dad's religion. I'd be pissed too, if my dad was the governor of (Pakistani) Punjab, and he wouldn't accept me as his son.
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