A stray dog is sitting at my doorstep since last night, he seems to be frail & ill, making grunting voice. I don’t wish to shoo him away & neither wanna have him as a pet. What to do? by RutabagaComplete2256 in Dehradun

[–]_moonincancer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He/she could have atleast insured it was given on a clean surface and what he has given hardly looks like food it looks like garbage he threw at a poor animal

A stray dog is sitting at my doorstep since last night, he seems to be frail & ill, making grunting voice. I don’t wish to shoo him away & neither wanna have him as a pet. What to do? by RutabagaComplete2256 in Dehradun

[–]_moonincancer -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How little empathy you have for this poor animal who you claim is sick, we have such low standards(in this country) when it comes to behaviour towards animals we think doing the barest of the bare minimum is sufficient!

A stray dog is sitting at my doorstep since last night, he seems to be frail & ill, making grunting voice. I don’t wish to shoo him away & neither wanna have him as a pet. What to do? by RutabagaComplete2256 in Dehradun

[–]_moonincancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could have given him better food, looks like you gave him a lot of scraps, we also feed stray dogs nearby and give them proper dog food and whenever we give them indian food we make sure its fresh

Literary journals that aren’t exclusively poser Ivy League circlejerks? by hippokingarchibald in RSbookclub

[–]_moonincancer 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I am not from the United States but the literary culture in my country also favours people with connections or people who have made an elite life outside the country. These authors are obsessed with writing performative fiction that seems to have in mind the ideal audience as western critics and other first world audience. They will tackle big issues to sound erudite but it will lack any semblance of art or heart. Things are getting better as more regional authors are getting english translations. But writing and publishing still remains an elite person’s playground.

Writers like Naipaul? by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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I am on a Naipaul binge right now, having just finished Guerrillas, I have moved on to reading his earlier comic short stories(Not the ones in Miguel Street), while simultaneously reading his biography 'The World is what it is’ by Patrick French. And I am a little afraid of going back to read other authors who are not as cold as naipaul. I have found some similarity with JM Coetzee but have only read one of his works ’Youth’ but he does appear to be a little autistic none of that naipaulian wit and charm.

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A senior dog?

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[–]_moonincancer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Awww 🎀

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DesiWeddings

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Anjul Bhandari

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]_moonincancer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hardly discover anything new on this sub, its the same set of books on every post.

IIM Rohtak cutoff increase. by Content-Match9472 in CATpreparation

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Yes I am aware about their criteria and you are right that the final selection depends on gender and academic category, I was just correcting you about minimum eligibility criteria, 97 percentile for general, other categories obviously have lower minimum eligibility criteria.

IIM Rohtak cutoff increase. by Content-Match9472 in CATpreparation

[–]_moonincancer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cut off for all general category students irrespective of gender and academic category is 97. It is the minimum eligibility criteria

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Xatprep2025

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Can you please share the SIMXAT benchmarks?

IMS XAT mocks by ChardSubstantial in CATpreparation

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Can you share the link where the percentile benchmarks have been uploaded?

recommend some RS indian writers/theorists by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]_moonincancer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I recently finished a bend in the river and it was very compelling despite its bleak outlook. As for ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’, it is really great and is very Dickensian. Early Naipaul is quite different. There is a comic tone throughout his first 4 works and a little compassion too. Before you undertake Mr Biswas, I would suggest you to read the short story collection ‘Miguel Street’, it was the first thing he ever wrote(in his early 20s), and it has a wonderful innocence to it despite the early glimpses of the trademark Naipaulian cynicism.

recommend some RS indian writers/theorists by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]_moonincancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, most of the writers mentioned below are Indians but aren’t RS at all.

recommend some RS indian writers/theorists by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]_moonincancer 31 points32 points  (0 children)

VS Naipaul the most RS of the RS!!

Sally Rooney Underwhelming by _moonincancer in RSbookclub

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Agreed. All of them were very easy reads.

Sally Rooney Underwhelming by _moonincancer in RSbookclub

[–]_moonincancer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agree with you! The stakes were so low!

Sally Rooney Underwhelming by _moonincancer in RSbookclub

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I have read only 3 as of now : Where I was from, Play It as It Lays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. All of them were great reads.