Gypsynan

http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/iyer.html

http://www.powells.com/authors/iyer.html

Is it any wonder that an aspiring gypsy like me should be a fan of travel writing? Here are links to two very interesting interviews with my favourite contemporary travel - Pico Iyer, whose work is getting increasingly introspective in its treatment of places, if that makes sense? But that is of course the goal of all travel writers - to explore the inner world in moments when it is turned upside down by the external?

One of my favorites is a little known Bengali writer called Syed Mujtaba Ali. A man of incredible erudition, whose writing weaved in his knowledge of Sanskrit, Farsi, German and Bengali (folk) literature, with incredible humour. He was a doctor who trained in germany in the early 1940s and married a German woman. He came back and was a physician in Royal court of Afghanistan. He also lectured at the medical school there and writes about his female students, in a matter of fact manner! Who would have thunk? His stories about Germany are compelling too. One of the truly unique voices in Bengali literature.

And Jan Morris, of course.... uh... I think I will post about one author at a time. Its 5 p.m on a Friday afternoon and the husband man is calling. He gets afternoons off on Fridays in the summer. Lucky suit!!!

No fair, I want to be a client too!

Enjoy!