Back from Chennai, with a delightful collection of books in Tamil and English, found only in India. Including Padders 'The Family' 
This review is about a book, a travelogue along the coast of India, about an ardent fish eater, incidentally a tambram. awesomely written in the coolest of english. conventy flowery yet simple and smooth flowing...
'following fish' by samanth subramanian - a part travelogue, a part ode to fish, part sociology, part history and above all, a labour of love written in simple yet elegant english.
a typical example, of the author savouring, yet another regional piscerian delicacy, ...'On the invalid's tongue, the strong flavour of nisot must dance like champagne bubbles, homing in on the sinuses and restoring life to taste buds dulled by medication. It is nothing less than an elixir, the sort that seems worthy of being decanted into little round gourds, to be worn on the waists of fantasy-novel adventurers setting off for unknown lands;...
the book is full of such poetic expressions; surely wren and martin, in their grammar heaven, must be clapping, loud and cheerfully.
here is an amazon set of reviews...
Following fish
This review is about a book, a travelogue along the coast of India, about an ardent fish eater, incidentally a tambram. awesomely written in the coolest of english. conventy flowery yet simple and smooth flowing...
'following fish' by samanth subramanian - a part travelogue, a part ode to fish, part sociology, part history and above all, a labour of love written in simple yet elegant english.
a typical example, of the author savouring, yet another regional piscerian delicacy, ...'On the invalid's tongue, the strong flavour of nisot must dance like champagne bubbles, homing in on the sinuses and restoring life to taste buds dulled by medication. It is nothing less than an elixir, the sort that seems worthy of being decanted into little round gourds, to be worn on the waists of fantasy-novel adventurers setting off for unknown lands;...
the book is full of such poetic expressions; surely wren and martin, in their grammar heaven, must be clapping, loud and cheerfully.
here is an amazon set of reviews...
Following fish
