Monday, January 15, 2007

Andy Summers Loves Calcuttans

If there can be only one rock 'n roll memoir on your reading list this year, make sure it is guitarist Andy Summers' "One Train Later". Excellent read (more about the book in a future post), and I bet this great guitarist's currency is going to go through the roof in Bengal very soon.

Here's what he has to say about "young Calcuttans", an observation that could have come from that other great rock 'n roll memoir, "An Argumentative Indian":

"In the evenings I join up with a crowd of forward-thinking young Calcuttans who argue vehemently with one another about everything. They are verbal, cerebral, and intense in a way that is characteristic of the people in this part of India".

(An earlier post on the Policeman.)

11 comments:

MockTurtle said...

"verbal, cerebral, and intense"; well yes, I suppose you could say that. I would take a bow, but we're not really men of action.

Tabula Rasa said...

hah! i *knew* you couldn't resist posting this eventually :-D

(*takes a bow anyway*)

How do we know said...

verbal, celebral, and intense.. hmm.. all three true..and yet...one wonders very much..

km said...

MT: Ah. So you Bongs are really just lazy spirits in a material world :)

TR: verbal, cerebral, intense - and soothsayers too? Unfair.

Tabula Rasa said...

:-D

scout said...

i don't know any bengali people. i suck. but i can argue the fuck out of most indians. but then again, i'm a jat from haryana.

and btw, mt is bong???

MockTurtle said...

@scout: welllll, sort of

km said...

Scout: Are you suggesting we have a Debating Deathmatch here between the Jats and the Bongs?

MT: you shameless moocher of compliments! :)

MockTurtle said...

Hey, half of me qualifies!

wildflower seed said...

Calcutta Bongs - young, old, whatever - have lots of *ISSUES*. We need our own Oprah.

km said...

WFS: that could be a great premise for a sitcom: a Bengali Oprah!