Everyone's A Critic
"It's so big. It's so big!"
That's a comment one overheard last evening at Crossword, Kemp's Corner, by a dismayed teenager examining the new Harry Potter.
No, one did not buy the book, though one visited the bookstore with that express purpose. The reason? They were asking for the full price. One will go to Strand instead. Or even Danai. (It's not the money, it's the principle. But of course.)
Instead, one took home the new Penguin India version of proto-feminist Rokeya Hossain's provocative, satirical Sultana's Dream and Padmarag. And no, Crossword still thinks it isn't worth their while to stock Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian.
Bookshops in Mumbai. Sigh.
That's a comment one overheard last evening at Crossword, Kemp's Corner, by a dismayed teenager examining the new Harry Potter.
No, one did not buy the book, though one visited the bookstore with that express purpose. The reason? They were asking for the full price. One will go to Strand instead. Or even Danai. (It's not the money, it's the principle. But of course.)
Instead, one took home the new Penguin India version of proto-feminist Rokeya Hossain's provocative, satirical Sultana's Dream and Padmarag. And no, Crossword still thinks it isn't worth their while to stock Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian.
Bookshops in Mumbai. Sigh.
posted by PrufrockTwo at
17.7.05
1 Comments:
'Sultana's Dream' is a great satirical sketch: as audacious now as when first published. Have just started 'Padmarag', and I suspect the translation is going to let it down...
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PrufrockTwo, at 7:23 PM
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