Comments on: Salaam Brooklyn

By: ek larki

ek larki — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:43:46 +0000

I love the painting! And I enjoyed reading the post. Yeah, we’re trained to expect a certain background in the NY Times wedding announcements. I heard a Desi-style parody of a wedding announcement at a spoken-word event in Chicago years ago. I had a tummy ache I was laughing so hard.

By: a

Thu, 20 May 2010 18:47:39 +0000

It's very surprising to see you here, to be honest.

What the heck do you mean by that Neha?!

By: Neha

Neha — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:06:59 +0000

Prof. Amitava,

I have been a fan of your work for a while, and especially your very nuanced and truly intelligent understanding of human rights, fiction, writing, language. Thank you for all that you do. It's very surprising to see you here, to be honest.

Cheers.

By: Not Veer

Not Veer — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:25:58 +0000

No, it is not just a NY exclusive.

Veer, Zaara And Visa

By: Malathi

Malathi — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:06:30 +0000

I lived in NYC for 3 months and will forever cherish that lovely experience. However, the place that I associate with the sentiment ‘the kind of felicitous meeting, and new crossings, is easier here’ is a small agricultural town called Krasnodar in southern Russia. In Krasnodar, at 19 years of age, I saw Tamil Hindu-Sinhalese Buddhist cohabitations (in the troubled 80s); Brahmin Hindu-Pakistani Muslim marriages; fair and lovely Punjabi women bearing the children of Angolan rebels, and many other unimagined permutations and combinations of potential gene interactions. Ditto was the scene in Kiev, Moscow, Odessa, Lvov, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Havana, and from what I heard, Mauritius, Madagascar, Moldavia and even Maples, Winnipeg, Canada. So why does New York get singled out more often than others as the city of new beginnings? Is it because writers (and film-makers, news-makers and other movers and shakers) come to New York early, in large numbers, and get to talk about it more effectively than others?

By: arimohi

arimohi — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:52:56 +0000

Wonderful, refreshing, and enlightening perspective. This was a joy to read…I look forward to your upcoming posts! The Sepia Mutiny I once loved is back!!

By: de-lurker

de-lurker — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:58:25 +0000

â€œThe air is thick with spices.â€

My favorite line from the film. What I remember most vividly other than Emma Thompson's amazing moment of acting towards the end.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:29:33 +0000

OK the mural..wow..just…wow!

By: phillygrrl

phillygrrl — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:35:42 +0000

You had me at Austen.

By: anony

anony — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:17:50 +0000

Everything you say about Priya and Farooq can actually be set in India as well