On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jul/20/classics.pgwodehouse\ >> > > We will have to accept that there is a whole world of readers out there > who do not know their Plums from their peaches. > Isn't it wonderful to live in a world where one can watch with pleasure someone reading Plum for the first time? > I feel that Plum's world is like another writer in Tamizh that I know > of...his pen name is "Marina", and his plays deal with the leisurely world > of the Brahmin community in Chennai, a community, like the members of the > Drones Club, that no longer exists. Has anyone read "Marina"'s work? > I haven't read Marina's work. But I always thought Thuppariyum Sambu was the closest equivalent in Tamil. Perhaps because it was set in the same inter-war years as most of Plum's fictional universe. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo! Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
