Archive for June, 2007

Of Southies and Mossies

Posted by gargi on 20 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: India, Print

the ToI - the world’s largest selling English paper - puts out a supplement where a South Indian - to be precise superstar Rajnikant - is referred to as a Southie. What next? a Muslim referred to as a Mossie, a North Indian as a bhaaiya, a Gujarati as a Gujju, [...]

Review - The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Posted by gargi on 15 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Books

I approached the book with some trepidation. I am not particularly fond of authors from the sub continent who write in English. I often find their narrative overtly lyrical, pretentiously mystical, and deliberately desi. But, so many people had told me so many good things about the novel that I succumbed. After purchasing the [...]

Out

Posted by gargi on 06 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Diary

There is a nasty bug going around and I have caught it.
symptoms - dry cough that racks your body and hurts your ribs, shivers, fever that leaves you drenched in sweat when it breaks, extreme weariness
All in all very uncomfortable. The doctor speculates that it is viral and is treating me for that .
aside : [...]