Young Men’s Tales

[ Charlie's note: I loved working on this piece. It's the first serious piece of non fiction I've put up on this space. "Young Men's Tales" is an essay on some famous characters from English novels by Indian authors.

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Hope you enjoy the change from all the usual stuff I post! ]

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Written by charlie

July 6, 2010 at 7:48 am

Posted in food for thought, literature

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Nice observations! I haven’t read Train to Pakistan, but would like to, after reading this.

Somehow I have never liked Indian writers’ style as much. I didn’t know that you read this much, or with the eye of a critic

Aniket

July 8, 2010 at 3:20 pm

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Heh, yes, I grew up on as steady a diet of Bond and Narayan as I did of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl and I love their writing.

charlie

July 8, 2010 at 6:02 pm

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Nice free flowing writing!..why the role of a critic though?

Adithya

July 11, 2010 at 1:14 am

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- Thanks! I wrote this for the online magazine I write for, but they didn’t use it. Anyway, I’ve been looking to write a properly researched non-fiction piece for a while, I haven’t really done that before. This sounded like a good idea.
  
  charlie
  
  July 11, 2010 at 5:57 am
  
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