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A timely conversation between Pakistan and the West

Hi all of Siva's friends and readers ...

I'm a writer (journalist and author of the travel book Alive and Well in Pakistan, which has been praised by Ahmed Rashid, The Daily Telegraph and the Harvard International Review) and friend of Siva's. Way back last summer, when my Seattle-based Pakistani colleague Nasir Aziz and I first launched PakCast - a timely project we publish as a podcast and online (at www.pakcast.com) and bill as "A Weekly Audio Dialogue Between Pakistan and the West" - Siva invited me to post about it on Sivacracy. Sorry it has little to do with the Buffalo Sabres, but I'm finally surfacing to do just that. (Hi, Siva!)

This week's installment is an interview with Siddharth Varadarajan, Deputy Editor of the Indian national newspaper The Hindu, whom Nasir and I and our Keith Snodgrass of the University of Washington interviewed recently. Next week's installment will be my and Laila Kazmi's interview with the Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid, whose new book The Reluctant Fundamentalist is making waves.

Cheers, Ethan
ethan(at)ethancasey.com

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Pak|Cast vol. 3, no. 9: Interview with Indian journalist Siddharth Varadarajan

Written by Nasir Aziz & Ethan Casey
Monday, 23 April 2007

Nasir Aziz, Ethan Casey and Keith Snodgrass interview Siddharth Varadarajan, Deputy Editor of the Indian national newspaper The Hindu and editor of the book Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy. The lively 30-minute conversation, which took place March 9, 2007, addresses contemporary geopolitical issues ranging from Iran to China to Kashmir, to India's growing role in the world. Mr. Varadarajan was visiting Seattle to speak at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. (Release of this special Pak|Cast installment was delayed by the previously unscheduled four-part series "The Necessity of Law," covering Pakistan's judicial and political crisis.)

http://www.pakcast.com

Phone (+1) 206.973.7861 in the US, (+44) (0)207.870.7929 in the UK, or Skype ID pakcast to contribute your voice mail response or comment, or respond to this email if you want your comments read and discussed on a future installment of Pak|Cast.

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Co-host, PakCast: A Weekly Audio
Dialogue between Pakistan and the West
http://www.pakcast.com (or subscribe via iTunes)

Author, ALIVE AND WELL IN PAKISTAN
"Brilliant, incisive and penetrating ... a travel book that
travels through the mind" - Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban

Posted by Ethan Casey on April 24, 2007 09:47 AM |

Comments

As somebody who does a lot of rhetorical stuff about bad podcasts, I have to say how impressed I was by what a terrific example of the genre this is: good introduction of context, nice use of sound, and intelligent and engaging conversation.

Posted by: Liz Losh [TypeKey Profile Page] | April 24, 2007 02:32 PM

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