I’m amazed at Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation in Armenia, and sad that it feels so unusual for a leader to say he is wrong and to step down in the face of popular opposition. I hope it goes well.
New fan
We have a new fan in the living room and it has made me realise how inferior (though pleasingly colonial in appearance) the previous one was. This is silent and even at medium speed gives a nice gentle breeze across the largish living room. When in England I do miss fans, having grown up with […]
Diverging paths
Perhaps I should have been a hiphop editor. I seem to have the knack.
Bumdhamaka
We have booked our return to London, on 28 May, a day that will live for me always. It is what I privately call bum dhamaka day, on which twenty years ago when the mountain turned white in Chaghai, when Pakistan tested the bomb some days after India’s test. It felt like such a betrayal. […]
A flashback to an earlier time
Three hundred Ramayanas .
Blight on the world
All Pakistanis, I among them, are in a state of near-apoplexy at the Australian cricket team’s admission of ball tampering and the way it has been presented as a heroic admission of a personal lapse, with a single – a single! – match suspension for the captain who got his most junior player to do […]
More on Childhood’s End
I finished Childhood’s End. What a great book, proper classic science fiction and better written and thought through than anything most other writers of that period ever managed. Of course, a few pages after I wrote yesterday’s blogpost, the only real character (to the extent there are any characters) turned out to be a young […]
Childhood’s end indeed
I picked up Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End for the first time since my early teens. It is interesting to read now and being sensitive to a story about aliens coming to uplift the natives of the earth, ending their warring ways and imposing new political structures and giving technology. There is a funny little […]
That that
Annoyingly, after many years of freedom, my eczema has returned. After a couple of splotches in the usual places (arms, back of the neck) it decided to settle overnight on a new and challenging spot, around my waist, where chafing is very hard to avoid. I’ve been mostly good about ignoring the itching, but I […]
Silence is best
Another busy day today and likely to be a busy few weeks too come. What I have been thinking can’t written on a blog, even one that no one reads, so this is all for now.