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On Father’s Day

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 19, 2011

At the dining room table, my dad and my father-in-law are having some kind of discussion about Haiti. My father in law was recently hospitalized and shared a room with a Haitian gentleman. And suddenly my father and my father in law are discussing the history of Haiti and that country’s myriad problems, and the […]

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The Short Short Short Story

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 14, 2011

There are loads of websites promoting very short stories. The internet has enabled the very short story in an interesting way and it says something about the internet itself and how we use it, how we read on it, and about the hunger for stories in general.  There is, of course, a Twitter hashtag (#vss) […]

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Soy Chicken and BBQ Pork on Rice with Attitude

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 12, 2011

I’ve just returned from Toronto where I spent a few days attending MagNet, an industry conference, doing some work, hitting up the latest Literary Death Match (I was a judge at the one in Montreal) and then hosting the National Magazine Awards (I’m President of the NMAF, the body that runs the show; what this […]

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100,000 people with nothing better to do…

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 31, 2011

That’s unfair. That’s very unfair of me and I am grateful to each and every one of them. Yesterday at some point, I passed 100,000 followers on Twitter. My follower number is not something I obsess over too much but any way you look at it, a number like 100,000 is a milestone of some […]

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This Is the World

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 24, 2011

I’m in Hong Kong on my way home from Kuala Lumpur. This is for work, for the bill paying day job I have that is a good enough kind of job so that sometimes I get to go to places like Kuala Lumpur to stay in nice hotels and eat great food and suffer from […]

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Why Oh Why?

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 19, 2011

I don’t know why I write. Not a clue. Why would anyone want to subject themselves to such an endeavor? It is hard work, it is not a pathway to riches, it can ruin you like a cold river on a blistery day. More people give up doing this every day and perhaps they are […]

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My first blog post ever

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 13, 2011

This is my first ever blog post. Anywhere. Am I doing it right? Let me just say thanks for stopping by. It means a lot to me that you would come here and tool around the site. I know you’re busy and I appreciate your time. No, really. I do. I’m not being glib or […]

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