Comments on: Never a Dahl Moment

By: teakada

teakada — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:07:43 +0000

A Collection Most Cloying

Inspirations for books can come from the most unexpected of sources – from the obvious in your face incident to tangential, barely related happenings that spark trains of thought that lead to novels. Nabokov’s Lolita apparently “was somehow prompted …

By: +: etcetera :+ » A Collection Most Cloying

+: etcetera :+ » A Collection Most Cloying — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:54:20 +0000

[...] In the case of “Sujatha” Rangarajan, one does not need to look too hard to find out where the muse lurked: His typical middle class Brahmin upbringing – a unique mix of conservative and liberal extremes, a steady diet of Dahl, O.Henry and Carver, an engineering education, and an interest in science fiction. [...]

By: varun

varun — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:38:47 +0000

I love his short stories esp “lamb to slaughter” and another one about how the husband who is a dentist dupes his wife (Was it the The Colonel’s Coat??)

Hilarious!

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:07:34 +0000

Tilo,

I don’t think he worked there – he was a customer that probably hated Jeffrey Archer…

Prash – yeah, I meant Man from the South. Wonder if KB drew inspiration from this book for the scene in Ninaithale Inikkum where Rajini tries to do his cigarrette thing 10 times in a row.

Speaking of which, I’ve read a short story collection by Sujatha and one of the stories in there is a word-by-word copy of a Dahl short story I dont remember now. There were no attributions in there to anyone, but I hope that was an oversight on the part of the people that prepared the anthology.

By: tilo

tilo — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 02:32:19 +0000

No one at landmark ever said anything to me – except yes do you need any help if I was browsing for too long……

Sumaar – superb..

By: Prashanth Narayanan

Prashanth Narayanan — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:24:49 +0000

chopped fingers – ah! i see you mean “man from the south” – i read that in readers’ digest’s excellent compendium “great short tales of mystery and terror”.
spoooooky!