The Street
SOURCE: TRANSITION 79, 1999 One breezy March night in Bucharest, I found myself on a ladder between two worlds, poised between the ground above and a five-kilometer network of tunnels underneath the city. From the darkness below, I could hear eager voices urging me down. The voices belonged to the residents of those tunnels: children […]
A Million Neuroses
Is the generous author of A Million Mutinies Now the same acerbic author of Beyond Belief ?An essay on V.S. Naipaul, Taliban Afghanistan, Hindu India, and the new South Asian politics A version of this essay originally appeared in Transition 78. This version will appear in The Humour and the Pity (ed. Amitava Kumar), an anthology […]