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Blog Entries by Christopher Lydon from 09/2010

Tarun Tejpal's heart-ache for "the idea of India" (AUDIO)

| Posted 09.02.2010 | World
Read More: Empire, India, Tarun Tejpal, Radio Conversation, Nehru, New Delhi, Gandhi, Media, Christopher Lydon, Tehelka, Brown University, Journalism, New India, World News

NEW DELHI -- Tarun Tejpal -- muckraker, editor and novelist -- is speaking with professional zeal and a certain generational remorse about his remark...

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Namita Gokhale: the revolution will be written! (AUDIO)

| Posted 09.10.2010 | World
Read More: Literature, India, Publishing, Indian Languages, Jaipur-Literary-Festival, Radio Conversation, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Namita Gokhale, World News

Listen to the conversation here: NEW DELHI -- Namita Gokhale -- novelist, publisher, sparkplug of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival -- says the...

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Real India: Ashis Nandy's post-colonial "intimate enemies" (AUDIO)

| Posted 09.13.2010 | World
Read More: India, Ashis Nandy, Post-Colonialism, Radio Conversation, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, World News

NEW DELHI -- Ashis Nandy has a big idea about "loss and recovery" in the history of colonialism. The bumpersticker version is that the conquerors and...

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Andrew Bacevich: how war without end became the rule (VIDEO)

| Posted 09.20.2010 | Politics
Read More: Andrew Bacevich, Radio Conversation, Afghanistan, War, Militarism, Brown University, West Point, Army, Doctrine, Boston University, Colin Powell, Cold War, Vietnam, International Relations, Washington Rules, Christopher Lydon, Iraq, Politics News

Andrew Bacevich is the soldier turned writer who's still unlearning and puncturing the Washington Rules of national security. The rules have turned i...

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Daniel Kehlmann's Fame: The Self in the Cyber Century (AUDIO)

| Posted 09.23.2010 | Books
Read More: Literature, Fame, Episodic Novels, Digital Age, Fiction, German Novelist, Cellphones, Daniel Kehlmann, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Harvard Bookstore, Berlin, Books News

Daniel Kehlmann is a very funny, very philosophical young fictionist from Germany who will make you want more like him -- and more playfully engaging ...

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