Sampath in one sense I am on the same ship which is going down.

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Naval. how true.

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dear rajiv, this typically highlights the 
pathology of angrazi indian ...
great blog 
 congarats....

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To Mr. RajivMudgal

Your article is an intruding one, touching the depth of the reasons why the writers living outside India cannot understand us. The language is like the water of a river. It has its own taste that it gets from the components of the local earth.

Naval Langa

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Hey
This was rather enjoyable and full of knowledge. I didn't know so many different words existed in Marathi for laughter. I know only khadakhada and khokho.
Avinash

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Shocking pic...These vistors trying to take snaps of the  monks are really looking like jokers.........yash

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HI Anjaline. To a certain extent I agree with you, but that’s the obvious part. What I find (misleading) is the other baggage which is smuggled along with the main narrative, and which often goes unnoticed. …esp the absences and in the subtle manner in which distortions are introduced behind the ongoing drama. And all this is put there keeping in mind not the Asian audience, or for that matter an Afghan (for whom the novel means nothing) but for typical American ones.

-and Yes, you are right about Mariam.
cheers
rajiv

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Ah..well. I really would love to agree but thinking again, I guess I would not. It's not really for American audience. I did so initially..wow for such EU/American crowd, but not as much. It's well potrayed the pathetic situation of Asian/brown women excellently. Yes, at the core level women are beaten, married off, and ordered to be quiet as cow! I would say, personally I could identify and acknowledge the status of Mariam and 10/10. She' far away from urban and represents 60% of the women we so convienently hide behind our door  - unseen, unappreciated, cruel.

I loved the book and found bits of me in the characters.

Sorry to disagree.

Peace,

a

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Hi PBS
Just comedy's and some scary tales
Thanks for reading

RM

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You write!!!!!!!!!!!! It's very interesting!

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