siddhartha deb

@debhartha

Writer. The Beautiful and the Damned. An Outline of the Republic. The Point of Return.

Sometimes, New York
Joined November 2014
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  1. Aug 25

    Part of a real boom in writing about Central America. This includes 's wonderful new memoir.

    I wrote about Hector Tobar's new novel and its bold crossing of literary and political borders.
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  2. Aug 25

    I wrote about Hector Tobar's new novel and its bold crossing of literary and political borders.

    The hero of “The Last Great Road Bum” is an ingenue, perched in the full glory of his American innocence on the edge of a world shaped irrevocably by domination, writes .
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  3. Aug 25

    I'm sure the editor of this piece appreciates that statement. The writer certainly does.

    ‘Even his father declares, after reading 20 pages of The Cocaine Chronicles, “Son, I think some editing might help here.”’
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    Aug 21

    .'s claim they did not organize the launch is irrelevant. The book they've published puts them firmly on the side of the perpetrators of violence. It's a perversion of facts and an abuse of the victims.

    'Our logo used without our knowledge': says it's not organising a launch event for Delhi riots book
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  5. Aug 22

    Union Carbide, Facebook, and now Bloomsbury? on how western businesses treat India like a colony.

    What ties Warren Anderson, the CEO of Union Carbide , to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, & Nigel Newton, the CEO of Bloomsbury? It is the belief they needn't follow the same standards for their business in India that they do in Western democracies.
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  6. Aug 19

    Wonderful! A chance for my vimana piece to be read again. With a gorgeous illustration by and edited with panache by

    For , we're looking at the Hidden History of Humans in Flight. Featuring Link :
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  7. Aug 6

    "Taken as a whole, these journals show the extent to which today’s top writers live apart from, and sealed off against, the struggles of ordinary working people."

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  8. Aug 6

    No, I went to Jersey City and debated whether to get the oxtail or the curry goat. I chose the curry goat but only because I had oxtail last week.

    I hope you stood there and shouted from the bottom of your heart Jai Shree Ram 🏹.Jai Shree Ram.
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  9. Aug 6

    I stared at the billboard for a long time. I saw an ad for a resort, an ad for a skin product, and ads for Hershey's chocolate. Maybe the temple appeared only to the pure, although the ones hanging around with their little Hindutva signs seemed even more disoriented than I was.

    I went looking for the ad in the evening. Instead of the Nasdaq billboard, it was supposedly confined to one billboard on 47th street.
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  10. Aug 6

    I went looking for the ad in the evening. Instead of the Nasdaq billboard, it was supposedly confined to one billboard on 47th street.

    I wrote about the ridiculous Ayodhya display in Times Square.
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  11. Aug 6

    I wrote about the ridiculous Ayodhya display in Times Square.

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  12. Jul 29

    Maybe they shouldn't go back to school until there are gun laws.

    Because the risks are far greater? Can you be this dumb?
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  13. Jul 25

    You're too kind. I'll add this to morning coffee as fuel for the next piece.

    Rereading The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India for the nth time and fan stalking online for his recent writings. I was rewarded with this:
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  14. Jul 17

    It's a twisted axis. We don't have to do it in a straight line. It'll fit neatly in a circle.

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    I did! By popular demand. But says the list is too long to keep it to four. I’m afraid David is letting accuracy get in the way of a dark witticism.
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  15. Jul 17

    Not cancel culture then? Leftist editors, writers, pubs can actually produce thoughtful assessments. Thanks for superb, subtle editing.

    “In writing an allegory that is barely an allegory and a trilogy of novels that are often not novels, Coetzee appears to have made his own literary displacement total.” on Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy in
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  16. Jul 17

    Thanks. I had no idea people read these pieces.

    This, too, by
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  17. Jul 17

    We really need to add India to that axis.

    Covid-19 brings into formation a new Axis of Shithole: US, UK, Brazil, three countries run by reactionaries who are proud of their ignorance
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  18. Jun 23

    I absolutely loved Hawthorn and Child and think it looks very nice next to Sunandini's translation of Harbart.

    Replying to @rid9way @debhartha
    Anyone celebrating Nabarun can never be an idiot. Thanks for the shout-out for the translation!!
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  19. Jun 2

    "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards Malcolm." Electrifying, incendiary.

    Black liberal, your time is up. You have held the mic for too long. Give the mic to any random protester on the street. Any one of them will have something more insightful and analytically sound to say than you do. Brilliant intervention
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  20. May 30

    "That's the blues line of our Irish brother."

    Love to hear Anderson Cooper stammeringly repeat the lines of our Irish brother Beckett
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