[silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Absolutely classic, thanks to Atanu Dey for pointing me (and the rest of india-gii) to it. http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6487IBLOCK_ID=35 Great Literary Frauds of Our Time By John Dolan Too bad it compares the dog of small minded mallus to to kill a mockingbird - which was

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net Subject: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 6:44 Absolutely classic, thanks to Atanu Dey for pointing

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Indrajit Gupta [23/03/10 09:43 +0530]: End of quote, end of breathless rush to immortalise essay. Suresh, you really like this? Honestly? I need to hear you say that once again. i would say that a lot of it - such as the copy of to kill a mockingbird - is true enough yes it is more vicious

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
Is anyone else seeing the giveaway in bold at the very top of the page: Brought to you by Enron? -- Pavithra Sankaran

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.inwrote: Absolutely classic? Suresh, you git, what's wrong with you? A series of vicious remarks, no before and after, no backing for the statements made, and that's absolutely classic? Suresh, you really like this?

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 9:52 Indrajit Gupta [23/03/10 09:43 +0530]: End of

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Pavithra Sankaran forpavit...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Pavithra Sankaran forpavit...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 9:59 Is anyone else seeing the giveaway in bold at the

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Arundhati Roy is an over-hyped writer and an unbalanced demagogue (my opinion) *To Kill a Mockingbird* is a book I like very much. The article Suresh sent is a coarse version of A Roy's polemics. Suresh is free to like it. We are free to think it is poisonous trash that has little credibility.

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: From: Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 10:07 On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Indrajit Gupta

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2010-03-22 Thread Radhika, Y.
having seen To kill a mockingbird 32 times (kept the netflix dvd for 3 months) i have to agree: atticus finch was an amazing character played with great conviction by gregory peck. I really disliked the reviewer's style. also if she Fucked her way she did fuck men didn't she-how do we know they

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [23/03/10 10:07 +0530]: To Kill A Mockingbird is permeated throughout by two rare characteristics: good writing, and goodness. Apparently Gregory Peck was, in real life, a person like Atticus Finch; it's the goodness of his character, and the innocence of the narrator, and the

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Radhika, Y.
Netflix complained that i wasn't letting anybody else see it:-) definitely will read it. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: having seen To kill a mockingbird 32 times (kept the

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [23/03/10 10:47 +0530]: It's also wonderful to see children depicted as children and not as mini-adults. R K Narayan and Bill Watterson have this gift, too. my favorite in that genre is not even to kill a mockingbird its betty smith's a tree grows in brooklyn if any of you can

[silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Shoba Narayan
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[silk] Mockingbird, Brooklyn etc.

2010-03-22 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Changed the title line because I think we've exhausted our vitriol on the Enron stooge (A. Roy merits a sad sigh, not vitriol) I have a copy of *To Kill a Mockingbird* (alas, a new one) but I would love to find copies of - *A Tree grows in Brooklyn*, Betty Smith - *84 Charing Cross Road, *Helen

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com Subject: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 11:04 I LOVED God of Small Things.  It was magically written

Re: [silk] Mockingbird, Brooklyn etc.

2010-03-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Tue, 23/3/10, J. Alfred Prufrock another.prufr...@gmail.com wrote: From: J. Alfred Prufrock another.prufr...@gmail.com Subject: [silk] Mockingbird, Brooklyn etc. To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 11:06 Changed the title line because I think we've exhausted our

Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there

2010-03-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: So, all you Arundhati Roy haters can go stuff yourselves How's that for a spirited response? :) I personally disagree, but De Gustibus and so forth. Meanwhile, I would greatly appreciate it if you would trim