{"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

And 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},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOff to Galle - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/off-to-galle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Off to Galle - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a few hours, I’m off to the Galle Literary Festival. 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 salacious (and made-up) literary gossip if the fancy strikes me. 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