Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Thaths
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 6:01 pm Aadisht Khanna wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Thaths wrote: > > > On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian < > sur...@hserus.net> > > wrote: > > > > > Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts?

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Aadisht Khanna
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Thaths wrote: > On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: > > > Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? > > > What is chewed. And is not hallucinogenic. More of a mild upper. > >

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Thaths
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? What is chewed. And is not hallucinogenic. More of a mild upper. Thaths > Whatever > it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fun

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-13 Thread Thaths
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:53 pm Aadisht Khanna wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman wrote: > > > This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: > > > > "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the > Arab-World-not-including-Israel?

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Landon Hurley
On 13 September 2017 00:56:07 GMT-04:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? Whatever >it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fun to hold >conversations with a cat or dog. > If I remember correctly, I

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > [1] A quote from an earlier work, > > When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, > without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that > all is a dream? When, in my

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 13/09/17, 10:50 AM, "silklist on behalf of Srini RamaKrishnan" wrote: ➢ His Rabbi clearly isn't smoking anything. The heaven hereafter can wait, he says, give me the dirt I can touch. Beautiful,

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? Whatever it is > the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fun to hold conversations > with a cat or dog. Perhaps you'd like the Rabbi of

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Landon Hurley
On 13 September 2017 00:52:57 GMT-04:00, Aadisht Khanna wrote: >The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I >think, >but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech >and >then engages the rabbi in theological debate. It was

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? Whatever it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fun to hold conversations with a cat or dog. On 13/09/17, 10:23 AM, "silklist on behalf of Aadisht Khanna"

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Aadisht Khanna
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman wrote: > This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: > > "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? > Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “ > > The Rabbi's

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread John Sundman
Thaths: Thank you very much for this. I recently read Ghosh’s “The Hungry Tide”, which I loved until the last 20 pages — I plan to write a review for posting on Goodreads describing what I love about the book and why the ending so disappointed me. EVERYBODY ELSE: Thank you so much for

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Jahnavi Phalkey
BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY By Anita Desai. New York: Alfred A. Knopf  (1988) THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BELONG | | | | | | | | | | | THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BELONG BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY By Anita Desai. 230 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $18.95. | | | On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 2:26:52

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Lahar Appaiah
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie. On 12 Sep 2017 4:37 p.m., "John Sundman" wrote: > This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: > > "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? > Also interested in hearing about novels

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Cindy Gallop
Re Jews in India: Esther David's trilogy 'The Walled City', 'The Book Of Esther', 'The Book Of Rachel' https://www.amazon.com/Book-Rachel-Esther-David/dp/0670058661 Gay Courter, 'Flowers In The Blood' https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Blood-Gay-Courter/dp/0595242499 Short stories: Sophie Judah,

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26530362-farthest-field > > This is not a novel in the strictest form of the world as it is > non-fiction reminiscence by Raghu

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman wrote: > This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: > > "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? > Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “ > Novels by

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Vinayak Hegde
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26530362-farthest-field This is not a novel in the strictest form of the world as it is non-fiction reminiscence by Raghu Karnad (the author) about his Parsi family caught in the throes of world war II in

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread Harnidh Kaur
The Last Jews of Kerala: The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community, Ruby of Cochin, Dropped from Heaven are all great! There's a great piece on CD that might be of help: https://cafedissensus.com/2014/12/31/the-indian-jewish-fiction/ On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM,

[silk] Novels about Jews in India?

2017-09-12 Thread John Sundman
This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “ Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name; she’s the co-author