India can be a tough country for Americans, who are seen as walking dollar signs and, what as innocents abroad: legitimate targets, easy meat. Within hours of checking in at their five-star South Delhi hotel, they had been importuned, without ,leaving the grounds, by money changers offering them the best black rate in town forContinue reading “RKS Literature: Easy American Victims: Inept and Unflappable Delhi Pickpocket (Salman Rushdie)”
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RKS Literature: The United States the Real Victor in Vietnam (Salman Rushdie)
My idea was that the war in Indochina hadn’t ended at the time of the ignominious U.S. withdrawal. They’d left a wooden horse standing at the gates, and when the Indochinese accepted the gift, the real warriors of America-the big corporations, the sports culture of basketball and baseball, and of course rock’n roll-came swinging outContinue reading “RKS Literature: The United States the Real Victor in Vietnam (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: WHY CAN ANYONE BE UNHAPPY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM? (Salman Rushdie)
They say, sir, that in the U, K. if a man does not have a job, the government gives him money. If he does not have a job, the government gives him money. If he does not have a house, the government gives him a pukka residence, not a jopadpatti shack on the pavement butContinue reading “RKS Literature: WHY CAN ANYONE BE UNHAPPY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM? (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: I WANT TO BE IN AMERICA (Salman Rushdie)
I want to be in America, America where everyone’s like me, because everyone comes from somewhere else. All those histories, persecutions, massacres, piracies, slaveries; all those secret ceremonies, hanged witches, weeping wooden virgins and horned unyielding gods; all that yearning, hope, greed, excess, the whole lot adding up to a fabulous noisy historyless self-inventing citizenryContinue reading “RKS Literature: I WANT TO BE IN AMERICA (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)
Nowadays England is ersatz America, America’s delayed echo, America driving on the left. Sure, Jesse Garon Parker was white American trash who wanted to sing like a black boy, but the Beatles, for goodness sake, the Beatles are white English trash trying to sing like American girls. Crystals Ronettes Shirelles Chantels Chiffons Vandellas Marvelettes, whyContinue reading “RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)
Nowadays England is ersatz America, America’s delayed echo, America driving on the left. Sure, Jesse Garon Parker was white American trash who wanted to sing like a black boy, but the Beatles, for goodness sake, the Beatles are white English trash trying to sing like American girls. Crystals Ronettes Shirelles Chantels Chiffons Vandellas Marvelettes, whyContinue reading “RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: Washing of Brains by the World’s Head Laundry (Salman Rushdie)
Most of you won’t do it. The world’s head laundry is pretty good at washing brains. Don’t jump off that cliff don’t walk through that door don’t step into that waterfall don’t take that chance don’t step across that line don’t ruffle my sensibilities. I’m warning you now don’t make me mad you’re doing itContinue reading “RKS Literature: Washing of Brains by the World’s Head Laundry (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: Types of Rock n Roll Bands (Salman Rushdie)
There are bands that are hit machines, bands that earn the respect of the music crowds, bands that fill stadiums, bands that drip sex; transcendent bands and ephemeral boy bands and girl bands, gimmick bands and inept bands, beach and driving bands, summer and winter bands, bands to make love by and bands that makeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Types of Rock n Roll Bands (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: India Only Discovers Sex in the Mid Twentieth Century! (Salman Rushdie)
And this in the far off 1950’s! In “underdeveloped” India, where boy-girl relations were so strictly controlled! True, true: but permit me to say “underdeveloped nation” or not, one of our prime cultural artifacts was a highly developed apparatus of hypocritical disapproval, not only of any incipient change in social mores, but also of ourContinue reading “RKS Literature: India Only Discovers Sex in the Mid Twentieth Century! (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jr.)
My friends I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but as ReinholdContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jr.)”
