tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post7587851868994427221..comments2024-03-28T22:51:28.222+05:30Comments on The Middle Stage: On Arundhati Roy's Walking With The ComradesChandrahashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-71364658348486400652011-12-29T23:27:05.964+05:302011-12-29T23:27:05.964+05:30I was stunned when I read "The God of Small T...I was stunned when I read "The God of Small Things". Still remember a line, "She realized that the slightly feverish glitter in her bridgeroom's eyes had not been love or even the prospect of carnal bliss but eight large pegs of whiskey. Straight. Neat". Awesome way to use the language. I just fell in love with the bookPessimist Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06057153008708242962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-89878061169967238972011-12-23T21:13:38.789+05:302011-12-23T21:13:38.789+05:30Grizzly - I don't think my position reflects t...Grizzly - I don't think my position reflects the site of publication as much as a change in my own views in the year and half since I wrote that essay on Satnam's book. Having read more of Roy's work and, also, after Satnam, much more about the debate about Naxals, the government, development, big corporations, and tribals, I find myself more willing to see past certain faults of her writing and perception to be able to reach the layers and connections of the larger argument she makes. I had of course, since I was writing about it, to read the book much more carefully than I did when it appeared as a magazine essay. I suppose that some of my own preconceptions as a reader of Roy's past work were overcome by the experience, and an older me is more sympathetic to her than a younger one was.Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-11331512915841225622011-12-21T14:46:27.000+05:302011-12-21T14:46:27.000+05:30Just wondering if you shade your reviews based on ...Just wondering if you shade your reviews based on where they are to be published? At WashPost, you applaud Roy's work, and yet in 2010 in your blog you wrote: 'Arundhati Roy's recent "Walking With The Comrades", to my mind a much more cloying and less persuasive piece of embedded journalism than Satnam's, worth studying for such curiosities as the repeated and romanticising use of the word "beautiful"'<br /><br />What changed your mind?Grizzlynoreply@blogger.com