Please welcome guest blogger Amardeep Singh, he of the excellent blog eponymous. On his keyboard of prolificness, Amardeep has fisked exoticism, the Brit Asian music scene, puffy hair and guru shirts, Parineeta and Sarkar, Suketu Mehta and Monica Ali, Vijay Iyer, singer Kiran Ahluwalia, immigrants in London, and Gandhi’s views on the British Raj. In his spare time, he spins records and teaches lit.
I’ve nicked more post ideas from Amardeep’s insightful writing than I care to tally. Finally, I succumbed to the inexorable logic of laziness: why not bring the mountain to the Mutiny?
fisked !!!
Nara,
Don’t worry, I’ve only ‘fisked’ the first thing. Everything else on that list is stuff I like (except maybe the British Raj).
“…blog eponymously named”? I think the good Professor would frown upon such redundancy.
Point taken, taken.
More egregious than “fisk” and “eponymous” — that’s Samina Ali, not Monica Ali.
Thanks for the fisking, the Monica Ali link is here.
But in a bid to retain my tattered guest-blogger-introduction credibility, I’m putting my foot down on ‘fisk.’ It has acquired through popular usage the broader meaning of detailed discussion and critique (e.g. of an online article), not necessarily refutation.
Also, I’m fairly certain I used the article ‘the’ correctly, multiple times 😉
and he’s not far from us! I love reading his blog!