Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-17 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:49 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: Ram Guha's gushing acceptance of shared Pakistani culture and cuisine is a result of his having schooled in Dehra Dun and having lived in Delhi. Not too many South Indians would have accepted a shared culture and cuisine with Pakistanis

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-17 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 17 Aug 2007 6:30 pm, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: but the same south indians then cannot also claim a shared culture and cuisine with north indians in delhi or dehra dun... indeed, perhaps this was ram guha's point, that there is in many ways more shared culture and cuisine (whether

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-14 Thread shiv sastry
Found this in the archives Ingrid Srinath asked: On 8/12/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting this. There are some minor factual inaccuracies, but I write to express my delight at seeing the author echo something that I have felt and stated in various places -

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-13 Thread Ingrid
On 8/12/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting this. There are some minor factual inaccuracies, but I write to express my delight at seeing the author echo something that I have felt and stated in various places - i.e that the birth of Pakistan was the first blow in

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-12 Thread shiv sastry
On Saturday 11 Aug 2007 9:56 pm, Dave Kumar wrote: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/08/13/070813crbo_books_mis hra Thanks for posting this. There are some minor factual inaccuracies, but I write to express my delight at seeing the author echo something that I have felt and

[silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-11 Thread Dave Kumar
I hesitate to start this discussion with some of the opinionated folks out there (oh, who am I kidding?), but I found this to be very interesting. It is a book review in the New Yorker, although it is really just a column that doesn't really review the book. The original article is quite long,

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-11 Thread Amit Varma
Forget the piece, isn't that photograph, by Margaret Bourke-White, just stunning? On 8/11/07, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hesitate to start this discussion with some of the opinionated folks out there (oh, who am I kidding?), but I found this to be very interesting. It is a book

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-11 Thread Thaths
On 8/11/07, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hesitate to start this discussion with some of the opinionated folks out there (oh, who am I kidding?), but I found this to be very interesting. It is a book review in the New Yorker, although it is really just a column that doesn't really