On 5/29/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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)
I will check him out.
About your translated indian lit - DO read ponniyin selvan, and AK mahadevan's
translations of sangam era tamil poetry.
I did read some translated short stories of Kalki and they seemed
overly emotional. I do have a couple of volumes of Ponniyin Selvan in
translation lying around. Inertia has been too strong to overcome with
getting them started.
Thaths
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