A college in Kutch too was painting the town red. Not with satin hearts and red velvet cupcakes, but with blood…(click on pic for the rest of the second instalment of my column in the Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle)
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“Po-Ha to you, Mansplainers!” ~first article of a new monthly column for top Indian newspaper
“The Wise, Mad Folk of Gotham”: I explore the origins of Batman’s home city in popular newspaper Livemint last week
“Goat-ham, ma’am?”
I looked around wildly. I could have sworn I had stepped into a newsagent’s and not a butcher’s. The racks of newspapers and magazines, the high shelves of alcohol and cigarettes, and for the children wandering in, a freezer of ice-lollies, were all there. But no Mr Freeze. No Penguin. And surely the farthest thing from the Joker was the man behind the counter.
“Not GoTHam, but Goat-ham,” he grimaced, “goat town is what it means. You won’t find Batman here. Nor adventure. It’s a quiet English village.”
Quite another crime-fighting icon, Miss Marple, might have had something to say about the dark and dangerous things that happened in little English villages, I thought as I stepped out with the children into the mellow autumn sunshine. But it was the caped rather than the cardiganned crusader we hoped to spy in the foxglove-filled nooks and green-wreathed lanes of this Nottinghamshire village.”
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