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...Ghosh also knows that there's no easy harmony when peoples and cultures mix. While writing Sea of Poppies, he scoured old dictionaries and almanacs and filled the novel with dizzying dialogues incorporating bastardized Hindustani and lascar words that he claims entered common English parlance in the 19th century. Each character talks with his or her own particular style and peculiar vocabulary. ("Just eat the bish, you gudda," one sailor scolds another. "He was only foozlowing.") The book offers no glossary and Ghosh offers no apology for the difficulties some readers may have. "The first aspect of India's reality...
...acute sensitivity to place and historical setting - can also present something of a drawback. The occasionally overzealous nature of his politics is also disappointing in a writer of such intelligence and originality. Here, imperialists are corrupt and bad, and Ghosh's descriptions of some verge on hackneyed: the Ibis' English owner, for instance, expounds upon the divine right of free trade one moment, and then lasciviously forces a young girl to spank him - in church - the next...
...Dung's notoriety is new. For most of his 41 years, he has lived as a shadow - the English translation of the book title (and a derogatory Vietnamese term for homosexuals). "We are considered ill or deviant," he says...
...months before I went to Harvard. 5. FM: What was your concentration? CD: I was a joint concentrator in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies. 6. FM: Not your typical pre-professional route.CD: My sister was very interested in fiction film and she was already a joint English and VES major. I was more interested in documentary film, and anthropology was a way to do both because I could do a thesis project that was complementary to both fields. They let me do a documentary film based on farm work in South Africa and my written thesis for anthropology...
...hardest part about Harvard is getting in.” False. From infected shoulder wounds at the women’s fencing tryouts, to considering getting cozy with a TF in order to nail the English 168d lottery, to that awkward, on-site liver transplant at the Sigma Chi (drinking) Olympics, hardly anything at Harvard happens without a bit of blood, tears, and competition. Sadly, life for the wannabe starlets is no different. The process to be selected for Harvard’s fall dramatic productions is an intense commotion of tryouts, callbacks (or no callbacks), and more callbacks...