Remy-Ireland

Hi TDK,

I feel guilty about not posting the link so here it is,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/B...ow/2244337.cms

hopefully it works.......i hate typing these links.

Regards,
Remy

Remy-Ireland

Hi All,

Further info on the India Pakistan 07 season can be found here........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/indiapakistan/about.shtml

Some good stuff coming up,

Regards,
Remy

TDK

Thanks for the link Remy, i appreciate that and i just read the article which says that (in addition to Santana) 7 of the orriginal NY Woodstock bands are also likely to participate so should be very interesting!

Cheers - TDK

noni

Hi TDK
We can have another party at Woodstock.

Two books for you to read with Indian background.
The God of small Things - Arundhati Roy
City of Djinns (A year in Delhi) William Dalrymple

Regards Noni

Remy-Ireland

Hi All,

Just when your on the subject of books,
im reading In Spite of the Gods - The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce.

It is essential reading, very thought provoking and as one critic put it ' Without question the best book yet written on the New India'

Regards,
Remy

noni

Hi Remy,

Just thought to lighten things up a bit!
Noni

Remy-Ireland

Hi Noni,

Yes we really need to lighten things up now and again........... afterall, theres only so much Noff one can drink in a week.

Kind Regards,
Remy

noni

Hi Remy,
Turned into a wino now. Have you finished your IR books yet?
Kind regards,
NONI

Remy-Ireland

Oh Noni,
I have them almost finished and i am leaving them with accountant on Monday night.......late as usual........i just was not organised at all as i have had a very turbulant year for more reasons than i care to mention.


Really cant wait to get to Goa in early December...........really really need the break........as does Janis, Ryan and Rachel.
I think we will just about make it to then........probably be on our hands and knees crawling onto the plane though.

Kind Regards,
Remy

TDK

Hi Noni & Remy, thanks for the book recommendations and funnily enough they are all on my back burner of 'books to read' so when time allows i'll try and get hold of em (in India as cheaper).

Thank again and incase anyones interested in Tibet/spititual/shangrila travelogue type books, at the moment i'm reading 'Last seen in Lhasa' by Claire Scobie (the award winning journalist) which is a Real treat-highly recommended.

Regards TDK

KKK

Hi Noni

I wouldn't recommend "God of Small things" as a reading for "knowing" anything about India, its a very stylyzed version of what Arundhati Roy (extreme left views) thinks as her "reality" of Kerela

regards

KKK

noni

Hi KKK
Am reading that one now! finding it hard going. Must be in fluffy mod again!

TDK

Ok All, here's some more light hearted fluff courtesy of Sanjeev Bhaskar- aka Mr.Kumar interviewed in the last Guardian Guide:

''The best monkey story i heard though was in Delhi where loads of monkeys stormed the parliament building. They got in, pulled faces at the foreign minister and chucked his papers about. The only way the Indian government could get rid of them was to emply some other Langur monkeys to chase them away. Its true.''

I remember reading about it when i was in India -Absolutely hilarious!
(although he ommited to say how much baksheesh they had to pay the 'heavies').

Btw - tonight on BBC2 the India & Pakistan 07 season continues with a new series, 'Daughter of the mountains - The story of the river Ganges, revealing its influence on the people living on its banks, as well as India's culture, religion and wildlife.' (from the Guardian guide)

Cheers, TDK

Douglas M

Hi TDK,

When the monkeys were asked to leave did they waggle their heads in response and more importantly, how did the monkeys that were commissioned to ask the other monkeys to leave interpret that head waggle (if any)?

These are derivatives of the fundamental questions i am beginning to ask myself about the meaning of life, what does god look like if you are an indian and why were purple tiles invented in the first place?

regards
douglas

noni

Hi KKK
Give up on God and Small Things - Just found "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth in the Library. only 1473 pages in small print - is it any good?
carrying it up the hill was enough.
Regards Noni