1 Brazilian Real = 99.2511 Costa Rican Colon

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 4.6739 Seychellois Rupee

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 1.889 Croatian Kuna

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 154.8908 Costa Rican Colon

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.092 Seychellois Rupee

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.0372 Croatian Kuna

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 3.0503 Costa Rican Colon

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.1338 Seychellois Rupee

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.0541 Croatian Kuna

1 Algerian Dinar = 4.4332 Costa Rican Colon

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0012 Seychellois Rupee

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0005 Croatian Kuna

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0381 Costa Rican Colon

1 Lithuanian Lita = 5.8143 Seychellois Rupee

1 Lithuanian Lita = 2.3499 Croatian Kuna

1 Lithuanian Lita = 192.681 Costa Rican Colon

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.044 Seychellois Rupee

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0178 Croatian Kuna

1 Nigerian Naira = 1.4588 Costa Rican Colon

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.6831 Seychellois Rupee

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.2761 Croatian Kuna

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 22.6374 Costa Rican Colon

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 2.4897 Seychellois Rupee

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 1.0062 Croatian Kuna

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 82.5063 Costa Rican Colon

1 Japanese Yen = 0.1609 Seychellois Rupee

1 Japanese Yen = 0.065 Croatian Kuna

1 Japanese Yen = 5.3333 Costa Rican Colon

This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?

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Literate Indians should be familiar with Ashis Nandy’s remark: “Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.“ A Trinidadian Indian by the name of Chuck Ramkissoon, in Joseph O’Neill’s superbly inflected novel “Netherland”, is also fond of making bold pronouncements on the behalf of the game he wants to introduce to the U.S. “I’m saying that people, all people, Americans, whoever, are at their most civilized when they’re playing cricket. What’s the first thing that happens when Pakistan and India make peace? They play a cricket match…”

It’s now my turn to be bold: “Netherland” is more of an Indian novel than the recent, much feted, Indian fiction. This is not only because O’Neill’s novel feeds our national obsession with the game. Nor even its exquisite description of what transpires on the playing field: “…. where the white-clad ring of infielders, swanning figures on the vast oval, again and again converge in unison toward the batsman and again and again scatter back to their starting points, a repetition of pulmonary rhythm, as if the field breathed through its luminous visitors.” No. My pronouncement is based on the fact that the Indian characters in the book are highly individualized and yet fully global in their identity. “Netherland” is not a sociological-historical epic thesis, nor is it a shallow, cynical report on injustice in the hinterland. Rich in observation, reporting as much on the interior life as on the life outside, it is a captivating literary achievement. A masterpiece.

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I loved Nina Paley’s brilliant animated film Sita Sings the Blues. If you’re reading this, stop right now—and watch the film here.

Paley has set the story of the Ramayana to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The epic tale is interwoven with Paley’s account of her husband’s move to India from where he dumps her by e-mail. The Ramayana is presented with the tagline: “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

All of this should make us curious. But there are other reasons for admiring this film:

The film returns us to the message that is made clear by every village-performance of the Ramlila: the epics are for everyone. Also, there is no authoritative narration of an epic. This film is aided by three shadow puppets who, drawing upon memory and unabashedly incomplete knowledge, boldly go where only pundits and philosophers have gone before. The result is a rendition of the epic that is gloriously a part of the everyday.

This idea is taken even further. Paley says that the work came from a shared culture, and it is to a shared culture that it must return: she has put the film on Creative Commons—viewers are invited to distribute, copy, remix the film.

Of course, such art drives the purists and fundamentalists crazy. On the Channel 13 website, “Durgadevi” and “Shridhar” rant about the evil done to Hinduism. It is as if Paley had lit her tail (tale!) and set our houses on fire!

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