Comments on: Movies and sausages

By: Kirin B

Kirin B — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:48:54 +0000

I found out Vikram just finished his third novel – hopefully it will be out this year?

By: Punjabi Boy

Punjabi Boy — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:03:00 +0000

Does a zebra really get eaten?

By: Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:13:09 +0000

A software consultant, and a writer ? Forget Pavitr Prabhakar I found my new indian superhero.

By: ads

ads — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:55:19 +0000

Vikram Chandra gave a talk a couple months ago at Berkeley. Apparently the English department is looking to hire someone for a fiction writer position. They screened Mission Kashmir and then had an interesting Q & A session, mostly discussing the screenwriting/moviemaking process. I don’t remember all that well, but I think he said that at the moment he was working on his personal writing, and had no immediate plans to do another movie. (I could be making that up, though.) Don’t know what happened with the job search, though.

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:15:39 +0000

does anyone know what the hell happened to vikram chandra?

You know, you could just ask him. I met Vikram Chandra on his first book tour, in Seattle 10 years ago. Both the book of short stories and Red Earth and Pouring Rain were fantasic. Chandra was a software consultant by day, yet he writes in a way which even Rushdie says he envies.

This bio says,

He co-wrote an Indian Feature Film, Mission Kashmir, released in 2000, and currently teaches Creative Writing at George Washington University.

He worked on Mission Kashmir with Suketu Mehta. SAJA says he's working on a new novel. I doubt we've heard the last of him, he just doesn't seem to enjoy PR. He's neither pulpy nor prolific, but he's worth the wait.

By: siddhartha m

siddhartha m — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:59:16 +0000

does anyone know what the hell happened to vikram chandra? imo, his second book “love and longing in bombay” still sets the standard in english language contemporary desi lit. but the brother seems to have gone into deep hibernation. wassup?

By: A N N A

A N N A — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:50:59 +0000

agreeing with Anna is just stupid, i concur.

namesake may be boring to you (i personally think that adjective should be reserved for her collection of short stories) but Dave Barry makes me want to stab my eyes out with hot forks of displeasure. to each their own, then?

By: Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:09:37 +0000

Amazingly I think this is the first time I can find myself agreeing with Anna. I thought God of small things was fantastic. The language, imagery, and structure was phenomenal. I can only assume the people that said GOST was wack, and Life of Pi was awesome was trying unsuccesfully to be funny.

"'the god of small things' is the worst book i made myself read! 'life of pi', on the other hand, was genius!"

! whose been hittin the crack pipe ?

But thankfully all is well in the world when I realized that Anna dreamed of Namesake characters. I couldnt imagine reading a more boring book, except maybe Red Pony. This book was the embodiment of banal to me.

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:22:41 +0000

if it’s the email address you posted on the other thread, yeah

By: Punjabi Boy

Punjabi Boy — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:42:26 +0000

Alright! You got my number?