One-liners from the Kitab fest
Here are some of the best (paraphrased) one-liners from the Kitab literary festival a week ago. On the pole-dancing Gandhi clip :
Gandhi wouldn’t have minded the pole-dancing video because he felt that every labor has its dignity.
I have a problem with my state because Keralites congenitally think they know everything.
Keralites read literature as political documentaries and vice-versa. – C.P. Surendran (thanks, Amit)
On Indians being literal-minded:
Indians are quite literal and don’t know what to make of fiction. – Adil Jussawala
On bloggers and TV book clubs:
Bloggers are like religious fanatics out on the street corner with megaphones and questionable theology. Richard and Judy [Britain’s Oprah] are like televangelists laundering money with the same iffy theology. – British publisher
The Blackberry terrorism smackdown:
… Indrani Bagchi mentioned that Britain had more potential Islamic fundamentalists than any other country in Europe. Philip Hershner jumped to the defense of his country and [asked] where [had] she… read this?… an NRI type with a Blackberry… Googled … [and] read out one report that stated that… Indrani was… right. [ Link ]
On the ToI printing badly-written, bald-faced advertisements but marking them as editorial:
Q: Why don’t you mark Medianet [paid advertorials] stories separately?
A: Because the clients wouldn’t like it. [via India Uncut]
Such honesty!
on Monday, March 5th, 2007, 11:04 pm in Humor, Literature, Media, Politics, Times of India › 
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People who make such astute observations cannot be hid behind generic names. Can you expend a bit of your social capital and get us his name :)
Manish, the Mallu author responsible for the first series of quotes is CP Surendran.
Thanks Amit ! I will check his work.
Hey Manish,
Thanks muchly for the pics! The British ‘publisher’ of the theological analogy fame is actually not a publisher at all . He is Sam Leith, Literary Editor at The Telegraph.
Ciao,
S.