Wednesday, February 20, 2008

A Post From the Future

Greetings from India, a cool 10.5 hours ahead of east coasters and god knows how many more ahead of west coasters.
Non-essential elecricity blacks out in a short amount of time, so I'll just leave you with a brief sign-of-the-times post:
The first billboard you see when you debark your plane in Mumbai is for condominium complex in Dubai - buy now and they'll throw in a Bentley or BMW. You take the Bentley, right?
The Pickle in Hindi is अचार.
Gratuitous, I know, but I wanted to see what Blogger's Hindi function looked like.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

pickle in hindi is 'achar'. Indian pickles are spicy, complex and vary between families, sub-castes, regions.

If you are in Bombay/Mumbai you might want to read about the fictional Saleem Sinai, born at midnight on August 15, 1947, one of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

At the end of the novel Saleem is at the Braganza pickle factory in Bombay, pickling "memories, dreams, ideas..." "One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, their smell maybe overpowering, tears may rise to eyes. I hope nevertheless that it will be possible to say of them that they possess the authentic taste of truth...that they are, despite everything, acts of love." p. 550

Luvh said...

Midnight's Children is in fact in the headlines, as it's once again in contention for the informal "Booker of Booker" prize. This of course is a prize the book has already won (both Booker and Booker of Booker), but now that there are a couple more entries, they're conducting the contest again.
Rushdie is competing with, among others of course, fellow Indians Arundhati Roy and Kiran Chetry. I haven't read Chetry's Booker book. Roy's The God of Small Things is pretty terrific, but I don't think it can knock Midnight's Children, one of my all time favorites, off the top of the heap.