What I'm Reading
This week, I'm reading Indian. History: David Gilmour's The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. It's extraordinarily well-written and full of answers to questions that you didn't know you had. I had never heard of Haileybury, for example. That was the training school that the East India Company set up in 1806; it ran for about fifty years, before the merit system was introduced. Fiction: Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. This lively novel, centtered on a policeman in Mumbai, Sartaj Singh, is studded with local dialect; happily, there is a glossary. I haven't got very far. Backround: Dorling-Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guide, India. It's very fat, but then the usual DK guide covers a single city, not a massive subcontinent. I've also got a map of Mumbai, largely to help me navigate what I can see at Google Maps.
As for this week's Book Review:
Comments
Nancy's reading Passage to India and finding fascinating the British manner compared to the East Indian; also finding herself terribly English.
Posted by: Nom de plume | August 22, 2007 04:32 PM
WE SAW DEATH AT A FUNERAL AFTER YOUR VIBRANT COMMENTS, ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT, PAULINE LAUGHED, SCREAMED AND SLAPPED MY THIGH, CANNOT RECALL WHEN SHE WAS SO TOTALLY AMUSED, I THOUGHT THE SUBSTITUTION OF VALIUM IDEA WAS PURE GENIUS, LEAVE IT TO THE BRITS, CHUCK
Posted by: CHUCK KOLSTAD | August 23, 2007 08:12 AM
WE SAW DEATH AT A FUNERAL AFTER YOUR VIBRANT COMMENTS, ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT, PAULINE LAUGHED, SCREAMED AND SLAPPED MY THIGH, CANNOT RECALL WHEN SHE WAS SO TOTALLY AMUSED, I THOUGHT THE SUBSTITUTION OF VALIUM IDEA WAS PURE GENIUS, LEAVE IT TO THE BRITS, CHUCK
Posted by: CHUCK KOLSTAD | August 23, 2007 08:13 AM