Stories about Literature in Mumbai
Pico PoloKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering to what extent Western - and especially American - culture had impinged on the cultures of the newly...
Destinations:
Nepal |
Bali |
Indonesia |
Tibet |
Tokyo |
Manila |
Hong Kong |
Mumbai |
India |
Lhasa |
China |
Kathmandu |
Thailand |
Japan |
Philippines |
Bangkok
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Kipling's Indian StoriesKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] A boy born in Bombay is raised by two loving parents and an ayah , an Indian live-in baby-sitter. At night the ayah tells the boy stories drawn from Indian legend. He is precocious, and India's...
Destinations:
India |
Mumbai
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Kipling's IndiaKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] V.S. Naipaul has suggested that "nobody has written as accurately about Indians" as Rudyard Kipling, the first Englishman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. That the premier chronicler of Indians...
Destinations:
India |
Mumbai
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Varanasi: "God Is Here"Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] Travelling in India cannot be called a vacation. It is closer to a species of trauma, or a potent drug, best taken in small doses to build one's tolerance for it. You go to India, as one Indian writer...
Destinations:
India |
Mumbai
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Kipling's Ode to MisanthropyKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632] * * * * * Review of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books , Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. * * * * * People of my generation - that generation contemptuously known as "X" - are liable to know Rudyard...
Destinations:
India |
Mumbai
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