tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post6690492043559543392..comments2024-03-28T15:07:22.673+05:30Comments on Shoot First, Mumble Later: Gandhi, Peres, Erdogan, Ignatius and my friend McKintyGirish Shahanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-45676732935183855702009-02-03T22:54:00.000+05:302009-02-03T22:54:00.000+05:30laughing out loud at this post (and the memory of ...laughing out loud at this post (and the memory of Zia-ul-Haq planning his acceptance speech when he gets the Nobel Peace Prize in A Case of Exploding Mangoes) - when I should be working.parotechnicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11533598285111795343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-89296916823769222902009-01-31T15:29:00.000+05:302009-01-31T15:29:00.000+05:30Ben Bradlee was my mentor. Danny Bloom in Taiwan.Ben Bradlee was my mentor. Danny Bloom in Taiwan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-1139059315448518012009-01-31T12:47:00.000+05:302009-01-31T12:47:00.000+05:30GirishI will mate. Heard from Can about a year or ...Girish<BR/><BR/>I will mate. Heard from Can about a year or so ago. He was living in Pittsburgh! I dont know if you remember Alicia Stallings but she's a famous poet now, perhaps not quite as famous, though, as the lady we crushed in your election triumph. <BR/><BR/>If I was gonna get 1 book of mine make it Dead I Well May Be which is a pretty faithful memoir of my six years in NYC (apart from all the killings and stuff). <BR/><BR/>Dont be a stranger, <BR/><BR/>A....adrian mckintyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349942973907386269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-33499789526831846862009-01-31T08:52:00.000+05:302009-01-31T08:52:00.000+05:30Hi Adrian, great to hear from ya, I'm going to get...Hi Adrian, great to hear from ya, I'm going to get a few of your books from Amazon soon. Can filled me in on your post-LMH moves a year or so ago. <BR/>'Course I remember that campaign, with Herr Ehrlich making scurrilous accusations at the hustings. The Americans took it as a rehearsal for their future run for Attorney General or governor.<BR/>Hope to meet up if I come to the US, and if you're ever in India, do get in touch.Girish Shahanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-62167208185793337862009-01-31T08:41:00.000+05:302009-01-31T08:41:00.000+05:30Ah, this nation is a different kettle of fish alto...Ah, this nation is a different kettle of fish altogether. For one thing, the idea of free enquiry is not accepted even at the level of principle, let alone practice. And incompetence is never a good reason for firing somebody.<BR/>I recall a seminar conducted by Art India in collaboration with Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art while I was editor. I discovered that the NGMA library did not subscribe to the magazine. When I expressed surprise that India's only periodical devoted to contemporary art found no place in the nation's modern art repository, the librarian asked me to send him an application and he would forward it to the library committee for consideration.<BR/>Needless to say, I wrote no such application.Girish Shahanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-39838004794782931852009-01-31T02:25:00.000+05:302009-01-31T02:25:00.000+05:30Girish Shahane, what a surprize!You didnt tell the...Girish Shahane, what a surprize!<BR/><BR/>You didnt tell them that I was your campaign mananger for election to MCR president though did you? We ran a masterful political operation, as I recall, defeating a powerful lady who is now a famous historian and whose recent book just got turned into a film starring Kiera Knightley. <BR/><BR/>BTW The Washington Post obviously didnt like my review of Igantius because they havent asked me to review anything for them again. I think they only wanted praise, praise, praise for one of their star columnists and the book, alas, was quite flawed.adrian mckintyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349942973907386269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-30080535638338766632009-01-30T22:04:00.000+05:302009-01-30T22:04:00.000+05:30:). What if someone flourishes in their job but yo...:). What if someone flourishes in their job but you still think they should be sacked. Like the Willingdon Club librarian, a Parsi bastion of stupid rules, who fines old men whose phones make the tiniest of beeps while she hollers on her landline in her boom box voice and told me with a straight face that the Library Committee would not entertain my request of a subscription to Sight and Sound as the library had 2 film review magazines already, Stardust and Cine Blitz.Well in this one instance the committee did entertain me and ignored her, but she's sharp as ever and still flourishing.DShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12624336095396883871noreply@blogger.com