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...perhaps not surprising that Sujit Saraf chose Chandni Chowk as the main setting for his ambitious 750-page novel of politics, commerce and manners in modern India. The Peacock Throne does for Delhi and democracy what Vikram Chandra's recent 900-page Sacred Games does for Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and organized crime. Or what 19th century European novelists did when economic and intellectual winds howled: produce teeming, sprawling, barn-burning novels that try to describe everything in sight. The surprise is that Saraf is not, strictly speaking, a novelist. He works full-time as a space scientist...
...liability. Healy responded that his office could not account for every situation and thus could not answer the councillor’s question. However, Kelley continued to press Healy, saying the council would have possessed more useful information had Healy provided a “three-page resolution instead of a three-paragraph one.” “I’m not in favor of reports for the sake of reports,” Healy responded. Several other councillors, including Henrietta Davis and Brian Murphy, voiced their agreement with the manager and expressed their frustration...
Another revealing instance of Western apathy toward non-Western abuses is the ongoing U.S. military prison abuse scandal. If foreign prisoners are mistreated by Americans, activists immediately spark a worldwide, front-page furor—and rightfully so. But when it comes to the far more routine, and more sinister, abuse of prisoners’ rights in China, we are deaf and dumb. Since it is not the U.S. committing the acts, Americans feel no guilt, Europeans feel no vindictiveness, and therefore no one has any notable reason to object...
...that would have been too goody-goody. What is it Montherlant said? "Happiness writes white." Good characters - I think he's plenty vivid, but they don't quite live on the page the way monsters or semi-monsters...
...casino we see. At the Grand Emperor Hotel, its entrance fronted by two gilded carriages, we ride an escalator to the amplified sound of jangling coins broadcast through the sound system. I doubt he's really here, but on a floor of slot machines, I ask hotel staff to page Mr. Kim. The woman behind the desk stares at me blankly. "I'm sorry sir," she says. "I can't turn off the music...