{"id":3987,"date":"2010-01-27T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:44:01","slug":"off-to-galle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/off-to-galle\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to Galle"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a few hours, I’m off to the Galle Literary Festival<\/a>. Blogging will be light till I’m back in town, and I don’t expect to be online much. But who knows, I may tweet<\/a> salacious (and made-up) literary gossip if the fancy strikes me. Watch out for that.<\/p>\n If you’re at the festival, both the events that I’m part of take place on Sunday, January 31<\/a>. At 10am, I will be in conversation with Shehan Karunatilaka, a Sri Lankan novelist who will be talking about his forthcoming novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew<\/i>. It’s a book set in the world of cricket, and we’ll talk about Sri Lankan literature, Sri Lankan cricket and Shehan’s own writing.<\/p>\n At 2.15pm, I will have a session to myself in which I will talk about My Friend Sancho<\/i>, read out bits of it, and chat with the audience. If there is time, I may also read from an Abir Ganguly short story that I finished writing a few hours ago, and that will be part of an anthology of Indian writing that you’ll see on the stands later this year.<\/p>\n And ah, I promise at least one orgasm. So if you come, you’ll see me come. Promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a few hours, I’m off to the Galle Literary Festival<\/a>. Blogging will be light till I’m back in town, and I don’t expect to be online much. But who knows, I may tweet<\/a> salacious (and made-up) literary gossip if the fancy strikes me. Watch out for that.<\/p>\n