Comments on: Kudos a Todos

By: Manoj

Manoj — Sun, 07 May 2006 00:12:09 +0000

The similarities in passages with Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (HATSOS) were brought out on the weblog Sepiamutiny.com where it was pointed out how the passage in Rushdie's book where his hero, Haroun, enters a bus depot and passes by several admonitions written on the walls surrounding the depotÂ’s courtyard found its echoes in ViswanathanÂ’s book where her protagonist, Opal Mehta, helps another student place posters on a wall that discourage drug and alcohol use.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:39:38 +0000

No worries I took care of firing off the complaint letter ... the NYT must have a thick file from me by now --- well if they kept records. They don't call me Grumpy Old Indian man for nothing. Here it is for your amusement.

To the New York Times Editors:

The article Â“In Internet Age, Writers Face Frontier JusticeÂ” By TOM ZELLER Jr Published: May 1, 2006 begins:

Â“WRITING last Monday at SepiaMutiny.com, a Web log dedicated to the Southeast Asian diaspora, a user called RC declared that Â“there is no scientific way to compare works of literature.Â”

South Asian is what you meant Â— this is far from the first time Time the NY Times has made this mistake Â… and sadly far from the first time I have written in to correct it. It is no longer a simple, if unacceptably sloppy geographic mistake, but is of increasing importance as over the last decade South Asian has become an increasingly popular and popularly used term for people from the Subcontinent and its diaspora.

Its not where we lost a land war its where we outsource. Ask Thomas Friedman Â—

Yours Flatly,

G.O. I. M.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:32:50 +0000

Congratulations to RC for making the NY Times! It looks like we commenters too have the power to represent. There can be no sustained hierarchy here. The old structures are toppled; the monkeys have been let loose. Now this is what a Mutiny is all about

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:05:59 +0000

In addition to the disputed passages, a commenter on South Asian culture blog Sepia Mutiny has noted a mathematical error in the book's first sentence, Mehta's inclusion of the number one in a recitation of prime numbers (it calms her down). [Pop Matters]

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:12:35 +0000

Ashwin (13#)

BTW, I have been known to take quotes from the comment section of SM to write a few of my papers here in grad school as well. What can I say, SM has quotable people on it!
taz — you plagiarizer !!

That is internalization !

Regards

By: Bong Breaker

Bong Breaker — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:07:23 +0000

I think I can safely say none of my SM comments will ever, ever get quoted in any respectable publication. Shit, not even ToI. From this point hence, I shall imbue all my comments with quote-worthy pathos. The immature BB is no more. I give you professor BB, available for comment.

By: ashvin

ashvin — Tue, 02 May 2006 04:21:34 +0000

BTW, I have been known to take quotes from the comment section of SM to write a few of my papers here in grad school as well. What can I say, SM has quotable people on it!

taz — you plagiarizer !!

By: taz

taz — Tue, 02 May 2006 03:53:19 +0000

YAY! I'm impressed by the sitemeter on SM and just how the numbers have practically doubled this past month- and now, getting quoted in the NYT- that be Hhhhhhhot!

BTW, I have been known to take quotes from the comment section of SM to write a few of my papers here in grad school as well. What can I say, SM has quotable people on it!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 02 May 2006 03:52:03 +0000

Imagine the frisson I felt to read words I had already readin the NYTimes this afternoon—keep it up, keep it up.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:58:31 +0000

Doh! I always make it late to every party

Amardeep is a great blogger (haven’t read Sid) so it should give SM that current affairs edge.. but I am disappointed at the number of sausages in this place