Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Finally finished reading Reluctant Fundamentalist. Wow! No wonder Mohsin Hamid spent 7 years producing this after Moth Smoke. Its brilliant and equally frightening. He gets the hatred so well. The language is so deceptively smooth and flowing that one tends to glide over the increasing nastiness, hostility, violence….and the narrator’s voice that initially seemed so calm and reassuring and by the end has the even and rational tone seems extremely alarming…and yet… I am sorry, but my thoughts about the novel are not composed. I am writing this as soon as I put the book down. I still need to digest and analyse what I read so that I can write in a calm and structured manner, except that I dont know when that will happen. The book is truly mindblowing. The monologue style is totally brilliant!
Tags: Editing, English - Other
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
I remember reading Moth Smoke in Bombay 4 years back. Loved it. Its the only English LLanguage Novel from Pakistan that I have read so far. I’m gonna buy this one for sure.
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I’m actually reading the book. Its a very different style and quite interesting too.
Can say more when I’m done reading..
welcome, aboard jayaji.
now that you’ve spent some time away from the book, any further thoughts?
i just picked up a breezy thriller by John Updike @ Landmark in Pune. its uneven. a lot of the new books which are trying to unravel islamic terrorism co-opts india. young moplahs from kerala or recruits from hyderabad. teh ludlums and forsyths do their basic research, and detailing, well. one must grant them that.
also, how about a post on DAWN by arupa kalita pangia? that would be edifying to some of our film-makers. i think DAWN will make for a brilliant film.