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Free Word Festival, London - October 2009.:
4:25 AM Dec 10th
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Offence discussion at the Free Word Centre, October, 2009:
4:17 AM Dec 10th
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What if earth had rings? (Thanks, Robert Sharp):
7:56 AM Dec 2nd
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@ nor a single target.
12:43 AM Nov 26th
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@ I think we'll hv to disagree there. It is more polyglot, and maybe that's why erupts less - since there's no defining majority.
12:42 AM Nov 26th
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...full service riot menu - caste, religion, class.
12:42 AM Nov 26th
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@ Gujarat's track record, in fact, is very bad. 67, 69, 71, 73, 74, in early 80s Baroda alone erupted some 20 times or so. It is....
12:41 AM Nov 26th
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@ Yes, there is southern exceptionalism at work, I agree.
12:41 AM Nov 26th
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@ (5) And the city did not erupt then either. So the 93 eruption is the exception, when Bombay became like rest-of-India.
2:38 PM Nov 25th
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@ (4) and finally, the city "bounced" back. Think of two more similar instances in 2000s - on trains, and in a cab. at Taj.
2:38 PM Nov 25th
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@ (3) The VT Booking hall was filled with scared Muslims; and many of us were there, some to protect them, some asking them to stay
2:36 PM Nov 25th
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@ (2) The key diff there too lay in Bombayites turning up at VT station pleading with Muslims not to leave the city. (more)
2:35 PM Nov 25th
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@ I think 1993 is the great exception that proves the rule I talked abt it briefly in my Oz TV interview. (more)
2:34 PM Nov 25th
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@ And people still equate Bollywood with Lollywood. (They do, at festival circuits).
9:48 AM Nov 25th
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My column about Bombay, one year after:
9:46 AM Nov 25th
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- Bambai, meri jaan!
9:32 AM Nov 25th
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@ They call it Nollywood.
9:30 AM Nov 25th
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Bambai Meri Jaan:
9:30 AM Nov 25th
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Bing bows/kowtows to the Ming/Qing dynasty:
4:59 AM Nov 23rd
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@ Right. Mea culpa. And my more nuanced response: given Chinese claims on Indian territory, its role prima facie suspect.
11:41 PM Nov 22nd
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- Name Salil Tripathi
- Location London
- Bio Writer, coffee drinker. Can type fast.
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