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Post haste, post Hay
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Greetings from my mum's house in Trivandrum! I love coming here but the scene usually revolves around family visits, temples, appam-shtoo and occasionally catching up with a Malayalam movie or three. This visit has so far been ... well, different, thanks to the Hay festival which had me tip-toeing into the house past midnight three nights running: something I haven't done since leaving my parents' house as a teenager. I had three stonking events at the festival with packed-out venues, lots of media attention and - rather curiously - dozens of college students chasing me for autographs. I worry, I must say, to find that some of my readers are as young as 15 as 'authorly responsibility' has not been high on my agenda so far (that could change, girls, so beware!). Highpoints of the festival were: being on stage with two such eloquent speakers as Shashi Tharoor and Satchidanandan, listen to luminaries like Simon Schama and bopping maniacally to Bob Geldof and Sting. What a night ... Tomorrow I speak to students at Mar Ivanios - a creative writing lecture of sorts so, if you're in Triv, see you there! Hasta manana x Jaishree |
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