“Is my pronunciation wrong?” the lady wanted to know. And I thought: What did it matter whether she had got the pronunciation right or wrong? Like many Americans who travel the world and are none the wiser for it, she had gotten the entire culture wrong, the entire people wrong, the entire world outside the…
Listening to “Let It Be”, a song with a fascinating history behind it–followed a dream in which Paul McCartney’s deceased mother, Mary, appeared and told him not to worry about the Beatles’ slow breakup. Details which enrich the song for me: I used to sing it to my son, Rohit, who was 5 years then:…
Calling all lovers of political and general humor, humor with bite, those who are reasonably well-informed and equally comfortable with THE DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart and SOUTH PARK, with its occasional f-words and subversive humor. THE EMPIRE BITES BACK, which was meant to be a book of humor without the parenting theme and f-worded…
EATEN BY THE JAPANESE is a rare book: a Prisoner of War memoir combined with a father-son story. Many readers have been moved by it. According to Dhirendra Singh, who was India’s Additional Defence Secretary in 2000, some senior Army officers were moved to tears on reading it. The story of its publication told in…
The Empire Bites Back is my new collection of humor for those with an anti-colonialist spirit and who are looking for Politically Incorrect Humor from an Indian Writer partially colonized by the American Empire, and yet without having lost some capacity to bite back. It is also for those who are NOT interested in smartass…
Wishing my readers a Happy Diwali, and here’s some news from my side: I just completed two long-planned, semi-completed projects yesterday and today: 1. Published a new paperback of EATEN THE JAPANESE: THE MEMOIR OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN PRISONER OF WAR, a World War story: a picture of events that have received little publicity. It…
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