Thaths [29/05/07 15:07 -0700]:
Frankly, I found most fiction writers in English in the pre-1980s boring. This includes the likes of Manohar Malgonkar. And I have not
malgonkar was insipid. One VERY good guy you need to read is Sasthi Brata, if you can get any of his books at all. Fast paced prose (theres one called "My God Died Young" I think.. a young bong who drops out of college, and becomes a successful author via the delhi slums, a delhi newspaper circa pre-emergency indira gandhi, working class london and europe, where he goes before suddenly finding himself without any money at all, there's plenty of sex too, written as good sex should be written about) About your translated indian lit - DO read ponniyin selvan, and AK mahadevan's translations of sangam era tamil poetry.
