Dear friends,
a few days back Nandini Krishnan interviewed me for FountainINK This interview took place a decade after a previous one by the same interviewer for the same magazine. I liked the idea that a magazine and reporter are following a writer’s journey.
The text here is more complete than the edited 30 minutes audio podcast. However, if you wish to listen, we get a good sense from the half-an-hour audio podcast.
Please see link here …
A few days back I heard from a PhD scholar at EFLU, Hyderabad. The scholar is studying the construction of male sexuality and is using my 2012 novel Roll of Honour as a primary text.
While chatting with the scholar I learnt this year the National Eligibility Test (NET) had questions from Roll of Honour. I am delighted.
- because this book went places in its time but is now largely forgotten. Apparently not.
- in my time I shied away from NET because I felt I would never crack it. (I did not know enough history of English literature.)
- not writing NET was the reason I could not become an academic. I bumbled along and wrote books.
During my MA, one of my teachers, Prof Narayan Chandran once said in class, ‘There might be a leather head sitting here. Who knows, in 20 years we might be reading books written by her/him.’
I am glad to be that leather head.
Dear Friends,
in November, when I was in Delhi, the Bhai Veer Singh Sadan invited me to be a chief guest at a lecture by Prof. Sucha Singh Gill. My brief intervention from hour 1.35.10 to 1.45.40.
Link here …
Dear friends,
The French magazine Marianne just published a story on Panjab and Sikh identity in crises. Come Bastin interviewed me too.
Please read …
Dear Friends,
Come Bastin travelled to Panjab and also interviewed me in his big report on Panjab.
Link here … French.
Dear friends,
a few weeks back, upon Prof Diditi Mishra’s invitation, Prof Shruti Devgun and I spoke on the 39th annoversary of the 1984 Anti-Sikh pogrom.
Link here …
Dear Friends,
a few days back CNN correspondent Rhea Mogul interviewed me from Hong Kong. She has included a quote in this report.
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Here is the same story published on ozarab.media.
Dear Friends,
Last week I was on NewsLaundry’s Hafta discussing the India-Canada diplomatic fallout and Panjab.
Please listen here … You need to subscribe.
Dear friends,
I hasd met Come Bastion during the Farmers Protest. We connected again yesterday and spoke a couple of hours. His piece is short, always a word limit. But he now plans to go to Panjab.
Please read here …
Dear Friends,
Deepa Bharath from Associated Press contacted me from the United States to enquire into the background and current status of Sikh activism. She spoke to a number of activists and media professionals.
Please see here …
here is the same story published on Seattle Times.
