Posted in Blog on Aug 31st, 2005
KCRW’s BOOKWORM
Umberto Eco
Nicole Krauss
Bret Easton Ellis
Identity (Series of 10)
This is where the big guns of literature come out to bat. Or to talk.
KCRW’S Bookworm is a major literary podcast show. It features serious, detailed discussions on literary matters, featuring big-name authors.
One of their longest, most fascinating series was the recent 10-part series on […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 31st, 2005
Posted in Blog on Aug 31st, 2005
A podcast, in case you didn’t know it already, is an audio recording intended to be broadcast over the internet, usually through an Apple store (check your iTunes program) and then downloaded onto your iPod, hence the name.
You don’t need to DL to an iPod only. You can simply DL to your comp, and listen […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 31st, 2005
The World at War series
The WorldWar series
The WarWorld series
The Colonization series
The American Flag series
The Videssos Legion series
etc
all by Harry Turtledove
He’s called the ‘master’ of Alternate History and rightfully so.
Harry Turtledove is an amazingly prolific, amazingly dependable author. He belies the notion that some readers have that once an author achieves great success, he stops delivering […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 30th, 2005
One of my all-time favourite Alt-hist series is The Nantucket Trilogy by S.M. Stirling.
The Nantucket books are titled
Island in The Sea of Time
Against the Tide of Years
and
On the Oceans of Eternity
(As with all my blogposts, I’m not going to tell you every detail of the plot and describe every character. You can find all […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 29th, 2005
One of my favourite genres is ‘alt-hist’. Or, to spell it out, Alternate History.
It’s often considered a sub-genre of Science Fiction, or, as some people prefer to call it, Speculative Fiction.
That’s because, most of the early alternate history stories were first published under the SF genre, the theory being, I guess, that SF readers […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 29th, 2005
One of my quirks is an unconscionable tendency to deliberately mispronounce words, especially titles of movies and books, names of celebs, and even song lyrics.
I do this so routinely that at home they’re used to deciphering my weird mispronunciations.
So, for instance, to give you some recent examples, Parineeta becomes Perinatal, My Wife’s Murder becomes My […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 28th, 2005
This review appeared in HT.
Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?
By Rudranghsu Mukherjee
Penguin India; 110 pgs; Rs 150
Mangal Pandey: The true story of an Indian Revolutionary
by Amaresh Mishra
Rupa & Co.; 106 pgs; Rs 95
First of all, let’s breathe a sigh of relief. Neither of these two books belong to that accursed genre called ‘novelizations’. That […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 27th, 2005
This is a short story that I wrote some years ago.
It’s a hybrid between the science fiction, western, horror, fantasy, and mystery/private eye genres.
As you’ll find out when you start reading it, it’s set in an alternate world ravaged by nuclear holocaust generations earlier, where the US has regressed to the days of […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 26th, 2005
A number of you have written in asking about my proposed film Beautiful Ugly as well as other film projects I’ve said I wish to pursue.
A common question most have, or misunderstand, is regarding the kind of film/s I’m interesting in making.
Let’s be clear about this: I’m not at all interested in commercial Bollywood-type song-and-dance […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 26th, 2005
Ashok Banker interviewed by Richard Marcus on blogcritics.org: Part 2
This is the second part of a two part interview I conducted via email with Indian author Ashok Banker. Ashok is best known currently for his adaptation of the classic Indian epic The Ramayana. In this part of the interview he discusses some of what motivates […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 25th, 2005
Whew. It’s great to be back in the blogosphere.
I’ve got tons of catching up to do, loads of reviews on new movies, DVDs, music, books, etc I want to post.
Also lots of new reviews of my Ramayana books in general, and Armies of Hanuman in particular, both from readers and critics around the world.
But […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 25th, 2005
Well, it happened.
Thanks to the intrepid team at Blogger Support, led by one Eric, who were hugely supportive and helpful, the problem with my blog is finally fixed.
Apparently, I was exceeding the space limit on archived posts on a given page.
The limit is 1 MB. If the posts archived on that page exceed 1 MB, […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 24th, 2005
Still trying to lick the blog-tech thingie.
Meanwhile, am listening to Bare Naked Ladies, Sloan, Keene, The Yeah Yeahs, The Ramones, Rod Stewart (huh?), Kate Bush, Cranberries, Def Leppard, and Fiona Apple. More about the best of those later.
Watching The L Word on DVD. Amazing! More about this later too, along with a whole bunch of […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 23rd, 2005
Excuse me if you’re reading this same (or similar) post again.
This one’s from my usual browser (Safari) and with the same ISP (Sify) and same comp (Mac OS X).
I’m trying to see if it goes up as well, since the post from Netscape went up without no problemo.
This is at the suggestion of Blogger […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 23rd, 2005
Here goes another attempt.
This one’s from another browser (Netscape instead of my usual Safari) but with the same ISP (Sify) and same comp (Mac OS X).
This is at the suggestion of Blogger Support - yes, they got back to me yesterday (US time, India time differences) and were very helpful.
More importantly, they reassured […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 22nd, 2005
This is further to the post I blogged (below) yesterday - though it actually only came up today…
Am still not able to blog as before, and can’t for the life of me figure out why. Have read every page of Blogger Help twice or thrice, as thoroughly as proofing a novel, and found nothing related […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 22nd, 2005
Hi all.
Am having some kind of problem with blogging lately. I think it’s a tech problem, so hopefully it’ll be solved soon.
This is my tenth, or twelfth, attempt to blog in the past several days. Somehow, one post got through - the one about the first part of my interview with Richard Marcus (the second […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 19th, 2005
Yesterday, a fan, a friend really now, conducted a longish interview
with me.
The first part is already up today. The second part will be up
tomorrow. (It’s a longish interview.)
Now, I’ve done a lot of interviews.
In fact, for the nonce, I’m actually not supposed to be doing any more.
But in this case, his questions were so ‘important’ […]
Posted in Blog on Aug 18th, 2005
Talk about different versions of the Ramayana - it’s about time we had a version that was also fun to view!
On the same Sepia Mutiny discussion page I blogged about (below), I discovered a link to a series of short animated films made by an American artist named Nina Paley.
The original title of the […]
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