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REVIEW
SNIPPETS |
| From the arresting opening line of Indra Sinha's vivid second novel ("I used to be human once"), the voice of Animal, the narrator, leaps out to grab you by the throat. Bawdy, irreverent and smart … Animal's People - part coming-of-age Bildungsroman, part vicious critique of corporate terrorism - is a bold and punchy tale. New Statesman |
| Every now and then you come across a novel so honest that it leaves you gasping for breath - like a blow to the solar plexus. The emotion is raw, the story honest and the language simply that of the people. You know that once you start reading it will break your heart and yet you keep turning the pages because the story has to be told. Indian Express |
| Many
of you have read Indra's pieces on bhopal.net,
the 777 newsletters
and scores of campaign material he has produced in the last fourteen
years. imagine all of that anger, sadness, laughter, bawdiness, absurdity
and flights of power defying imagination in one book - thats Animal's
People. It is an intimately gripping story told by 'Animal' a
young survivor of the 'apokalis' [apocalypse] in the city of Khaufpur.
Everybody calls him Animal because he lopes on his feet and hands
due to his bent spine - damage caused by the gases of the apokalis.
He lies, cheats, peeps at bathing women, thinks unprintable thoughts,
dreams wet dreams, verges on betraying the cause for justice but throughout
remains starkly real and immensely lovable. The people around Animal
are fellow survivors, activists, American do gooders, musicians, government
officials, lumpens and lust objects. Together it is the story of the
have-nothings fighting the have-alls and winning. Khaufpur is as close
or far from Bhopal as you want it to be but I am sure you will enjoy
the retelling of the many campaigns that all of you have been part
of and recognise the intricacies of wickedness and resistance in a
gassed city. For sure it has the power to make a whole new set of
people curious and potentially sympathetic to the ongoing struggle
of Bhopal. the book is published in England and available on Amazon
UK . Please forward this and encourage friends to buy this brilliant
book. Sathyu Sarangi, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal |
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| Footnotes | |
| * Journal entries | |
| Alchemy | |
| * Adam McLean | |
| Architecture | |
| * CalEarth | |
| * Carlo Scarpa | |
| * Le Palais Ideal | |
| * Wholeo Dome | |
| Art | |
| * Holly Warburton | |
| * Jeffery Stride | |
| * Sally Davies-Stride | |
| * The Saatchi Gallery | |
| * The Tate Gallery | |
| * Tom Phillips | |
| * Wayne Ashton | |
| * X-8 | |
| * Xue Mo | |
| Barbers | |
| * Fanthorpe's | |
| Bookshops | |
| * AbeBooks | |
| * Books from India | |
| Comment | |
| * Daily Kos | |
| Film | |
| * Mahesh Matthai | |
| History | |
| * The Richard III Society | |
| Involvement | |
| * Bhopal Justice Campaign | |
| * Bhopal Medical Appeal | |
| * Just Response | |
| Journalists | |
| * Anil Thakraney | |
| * Domenico Pacitti | |
| * John Pilger | |
| * Jon Snow | |
| * Robert Fisk | |
| Music | |
| * Radiohead | |
| * Wes McGhee | |
| Photography | |
| * Don McCullin | |
| * Magnus Westerberg | |
| Pizza | |
| * Bar Taïna | |
| Poetry | |
| * Frieda Hughes | |
| * Roger Garfitt | |
| * The Poetry Society | |
| Social | |
| * Feral children | |
| Writers | |
| * Annie Proulx | |
| * Arundhati Roy | |
| * Chuck Palahniuk | |
| * Henry Miller | |
| * Julian Barnes | |
| * Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| * Lawrence Durrell | |
| * Margaret Atwood | |
| * Peter James | |
| * Suketu Mehta | |
| * Umberto Eco | |
| * Virginia Woolf | |
| * Vladimir Nabokov | |
| * Wayne Ashton |
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WITH HOLLY, 1999 |
| My
first novel The
Death of Mr Love is largely set in Bombay, which is my home
town and was a great place to be a kid. My father was an Indian
naval officer, my mother, who was English, was a writer. I grew
up surrounded by books and had the privilege of knowing many literary
figures, including the novelist Mulk
Raj Anand, who encouraged me to write, and to whom The Death
of Mr Love is dedicated. Animal's People, published in March 2007, is set in an Indian town called Khaufpur. Lucy Beresford, reviewing for the New Statesman, astutely wrote: "The clue is in the name. "Khauf" is an Urdu word meaning "fear". My sense is that Khaufpur is fictional, a place of terror and dread. Its real-life counterpart is Bhopal."
Bibliography Kama
Sutra (translation) Hamlyn 1980 |
