The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
the Bengali bilingual intellectual knows that he will remain a prophet without honour in his own ‘desh’ if he is seen as not equally grounded in both Bengali and English . . .
Ramachandra Guha • The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
The trouble with the narrow-minded, blinkered, bureaucratized, malicious and petty semi-intelligentsia of this fucked-up country is that the moment someone writes well in an informal, freewheeling manner on unacademic subjects, as you do, his virtuoso writerly virtues are used to cast doubt on his equal and separable credibility as a first-class ac
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Indian Food: A Historical Companion’. Some years later Dr Achaya produced a sequel, also published by the OUP: A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food.
Ramachandra Guha • The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
I’m sure I have a rather romanticized recollection of Lloyd, but then what else is cricket-watching except emotions recollected as hype?