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. Originally published in Transition, reprinted in The Humour and the Pity, edited by Amitava Kumar
The Seth Variations
Wednesday, June 23rd, 1999Interview with Vikram Seth, published in Atlantic Unbound
An Equal Music
Thursday, May 13th, 1999Review of An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth, published in Salon.com
Hotel Alf
Wednesday, May 12th, 1999A lonely night in Hotel Alf, Krakow, Poland, published in Atlantic Unbound
Onion Logic
Wednesday, March 31st, 1999The waiter refused to give me my onions; it took a while before I realized this was evidence of a national crisis. A report from Kuilapalayam, published in Atlantic Unbound
The Tiger Queen
Wednesday, February 3rd, 1999She claimed she was a princess, but she seemed more like a defanged tiger, in Rajasthan. Published in Atlantic Unbound
The Hills of Sighisoara
Thursday, October 1st, 1998Far from home and lonely, I befriend a drunken cuckold in Sighisoara, Romania. Published in Atlantic Unbound
Poor but Prosperous
Wednesday, September 16th, 1998 A report from the state of Kerala, published in The Atlantic Monthly
In Trivandrum, the mellow state capital, which spreads over seven hills, I paid a visit to C. P. Narayan, a prominent member of Kerala’s largest Communist party. His office was opposite the party headquarters, a hideous slab of concrete, like something out of Nicolae Ceausescu’s Bucharest.
A Long Way From Home
Wednesday, August 26th, 1998A bomb threat puts me in unexpectedly close–and ultimately uncomfortable–proximity to a Pakistani tourist in Istanbul. Published in Atlantic Unbound
The Courts of Pondicherry
Wednesday, February 4th, 1998I lose to a fat bald man in a tennis tournament on a miserable hot day, in Pondicherry. Published in Atlantic Unbound

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