tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post2185457332514335710..comments2024-03-18T19:46:10.130+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Preserving identity: The Reluctant FundamentalistJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-35378183118059245292012-06-02T22:48:02.186+05:302012-06-02T22:48:02.186+05:30A wonderful post Jai . This actually helps me in u...A wonderful post Jai . This actually helps me in understanding my friend's behaviour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-70450477955932767922012-01-23T12:49:42.832+05:302012-01-23T12:49:42.832+05:30This book was not exactly what I expected. As the ...This book was not exactly what I expected. As the ending began to take shape, I found myself able to identify less and less with the storyteller. Maybe because of the culture difference, but it seemed the young man telling the story was really biting the generous hand that was feeding him. I had a hard time figureing out what his romance had to do with the rest of the story. I didn't seem to have much to do with anything else. I found myself getting angry with alot of what sounded like assumptions on the narrator's part, like blaming the United States for Pakistan's trouble with India. I wanted to ask about his country's part in hiding Osama Bin Laudin and his being "pleased" at hearing about the attack on our country. I have not stopped thinking about this book since i finished it a couple of days ago. Of course, that very well might have been the author's intention. I read the book hoping to understand the mindset of someone who goes to these extremes in the name of patriotism, perhaps it is beyond my understanding. I did read this book in record time, I found it very interesting even if I didn't catch all of what the author was trying to convey. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the countries we are involved with and how the people feel about our involvment.Brasilhttp://talkingpoint2track.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-35377850274013564332008-06-10T11:19:00.000+05:302008-06-10T11:19:00.000+05:30You've put it so well.. "threat to his cultural id...You've put it so well.. "threat to his cultural identity". I think this may be so core to Changez and many others. <BR/><BR/>What I love about the book is that every one has some personal experience that they think of on reading the book. I guess that just shows how Changez could be so rational, so seemingly normal and yet may have been involved with fundamentalist activities.chicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01035890038433163611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-19439615796130914802007-05-28T11:55:00.000+05:302007-05-28T11:55:00.000+05:30I read the novel. It was good. However, I disagree...I read the novel. It was good. However, I disagree with Changez's transformation and the choices he makes. US, the country decides to leave, is far ahead of most countries in the subcontinent particularly in their treatment of women and the working class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-67711404018800006072007-04-18T12:27:00.000+05:302007-04-18T12:27:00.000+05:30Probably the best post on this blog so far ...? An...Probably the best post on this blog so far ...? And pertinent too.WillOTheWisphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17519824840694799244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-23293935214851891682007-04-18T06:49:00.000+05:302007-04-18T06:49:00.000+05:30Being abroad does unbalance you in some ways. I h...Being abroad does unbalance you in some ways. I have been in Australia for the past two years and often get the "how do you speak English so well" (answer the Brits were in India before they came to this place:-)-do these guys not know their history) and yes, it always irks me. When I lived in India, speaking English was no big deal and it co-existed happily with a number of other Indian languages that I speak (though not as fluently as English). Here, when I get asked this question, I don't feel good. I feel embarrassed that I speak it fluently and sometimes in an extreme moment, I promise myself I shall read and write only in Hindi for the rest of the years :-). Alternately, many Asians think Indians are "lucky" because they speak English - and I envy them their easy fluency in their own tongues and their fractured English. <BR/><BR/>To come back to the post, I read Moth Smoke and am quite looking forward to RF.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-14245332460714311992007-04-17T17:38:00.000+05:302007-04-17T17:38:00.000+05:30this is the only the 'Indian'..thanks for giving s...this is the only the 'Indian'..thanks for giving such information..........visit me my blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-82281162743314712612007-04-17T17:25:00.000+05:302007-04-17T17:25:00.000+05:30Been there. Know a couple of desi people who chang...Been there. Know a couple of desi people who changed that way, all of a sudden india is the promised land and I wouldn't bring my kids up here etc. <BR/>Its not uncommon in america, i've heard lots of ethnic comedians make those jokes. <BR/><BR/>Pablo Francisco did some:<BR/>"MEHICO! MEHICO!" but "shit i wouldn't go back there"<BR/><BR/>Dave Chappelle did a skit on that in the when keeping it real goes wrong. <BR/>http://www.ifilm.com/video/2795932/show/17670<BR/><BR/>"In his heart of hearts it made him feel like an uncle Tom."Ananghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13093712350047601404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-44583735790977534252007-04-17T10:52:00.000+05:302007-04-17T10:52:00.000+05:30I had someone tell me that he'd rather burn his sc...I had someone tell me that he'd rather burn his script than have it made into a Bollywood movie. Definitely made me bristle...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-50846881271641559922007-04-17T10:14:00.000+05:302007-04-17T10:14:00.000+05:30So whats wrong with 'my-country-I can-say-whatever...So whats wrong with 'my-country-I can-say-whatever-I want' attitude? Would it be any different in any other place?? So, there is no need to point out to the 'indianness'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-59889157576034824632007-04-17T01:34:00.000+05:302007-04-17T01:34:00.000+05:30Ha...how true about the "Indian" feeling. "My coun...Ha...how true about the "Indian" feeling. "My country, I can say whatever I want. If you are not from my country...you don't criticize it!" Hey I don't practice what I preach..so you can't use this against me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com