Hi Rana - it was with pleasure that I read your post - FINALLY, the
list is getting exciting again.
I was just in New Zealand with Suketu, and am happy to report his
book Maximum City won the Kiriyama Prize, which is a kind of
Pacific Rim/South Asia equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the U.S.
There is hardly a better prescription for dreaming of suicide, by cities,
persons or ideoligies, than comfortable success and lack of a need
to struggle to survive.
The invention of the Third World brand came from the mental laziness
non-western intellectuals and political ideolgues grown soft
