Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Amitav Ghosh on terrorist attacks in Mumbai --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/opinion/03ghosh.html?th&emc=th

Ghosh started writing about Burma in an article in The New Yorker in 1996.

He is the author of The Glass Palace, set in Mandalay in 1886.

One of my favorite books--Grendel by John Gardner, famous writer and writing teacher, who died after a motor cycle accident.

Unfortunately he died the year I arrived in America, and I had not yet caught the writing bug. One of my favorite books--Grendel by John G...