Swapan-da????? Sent from my iPad
On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:08 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Dragging this back to the original thread- how widely read is PGW today? Does > he still attract fresh batches of public school readers, or is his appeal > limited to those who started reading him in the 90s or before and have fond > memories of Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world? > > This article, remember, was written in 2002. I remember Swapan-da once > slicing apart Tharoor, saying that he was prouder of being President of the > Wodehouse Society than of being Deputy Secretary General of the United > Nations. > > On a personal note- PGW was a personal favorite through much of school, but > the only book of his on my current reading list is Wodehouse at the Wicket. > That said, I still think I got all my Shakespeare quotes from PGW. > > > Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone > From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 03:23:28 +0530 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [silk] How the Woosters captured Delhi > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > Shashi Tharoor on The Master. > > 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. > > 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? > > Deepa.
