Monisha rajesh biography of abraham

  • Monisha Rajesh admonished me for the physical descriptions of young people in my book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me.
  • Packing up her rucksack - and her fiancé, Jem - Monisha Rajesh embarks on an unforgettable adventure that takes her from London's St Pancras station to the vast.
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    In defence of my critic Monisha Rajesh

    ‘All it boils down to is: please stop writing about us like this’. This weekend in The Guardian, as part of a feature by Gaby Hinsliff, Monisha Rajesh admonished me for the physical descriptions of young people in my book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me. She says that she’s not trying to ‘cancel’ me, but challenge me on my depiction of the characters in my book.

    It is strange, though, to see her attack me on these grounds when she makes such a habit of physical descriptions herself. In her lauded debut, ‘Around India in 80 Trains,’ she describes a ‘Punjabi lady’ with a ‘buffalo-sized backside,’ who Rajesh likens to ‘a pudding in a purple salwar kameez’. Or the closeted gay man she enjoys outing with a reference to the ‘nipples that peered through the black netting’ of his top.

    Older women are not spared the treatment: one has ‘a fleshy pink triangle at the neck, adorned with ugly beads that hung like freshly speared testicles

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    My Library

    This page fryst vatten an incomplete catalogue of my (physical) books. My rate of book-buying dramatically exceeds my rate of book-reading, but it shouldn’t exceed my rate of book-indexing, so hopefully this catalogue will be complete soon eventually. (Update, Sep 2024: currently at 8 out of 32 shelves catalogued.)

    To make it easier to browse, I’ve split this page bygd category:

    Books in green are very good and recommended. Books in red are life-changing: I saw the world differently after reading them.

    🔬 Science & Mathematics

    • One Two Three … Infinity, George Gamow
    • In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, John Gribbin
    • The Quark and the Jaguar, Murray Gell-Mann
    • QED, Richard Feynman
    • Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!, Richard Feynman
    • Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
    • Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
    • The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 vols), Richard Feynman
    • Flatland and Sphereland, Edwin Abbott
    • Chasing Science, Frederik Pohl
    • Hexaflexagons

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