Fragments against My Ruin

A Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a career in journalism interviewing Pink Floyd and Allen Ginsberg and covering the first meeting between the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Dhondy was soon drawn into political activism. He joined the Indian Workers Association and the British Black Panther Movement. Within the radical activist collective Race Today, he worked alongside Darcus Howe and C. L. R. James. An award-winning writer, he co-wrote the ground-breaking sit-com Tandoori Nights. In 1984 he became Channel 4's Commissioning Editor for multicultural programming and was a driving force behind Desmond's, Salaam Bombay!, and the trailblazing Bandung File.In Fragments against My Ruin, Dhondy explores a life to salvage precious moments against the inevitable decay of age. The result is a fascinating social and historical document of the late twentieth century, addressing politics, culture, friendship, and the determination to break down boundaries. It is an autobiography packed with compelling anecdotes, such as an insightful take on Jeffrey Archer's conviction, as well as portraits of Richard Attenborough, Arundhati Roy, V. S. Naipaul, Charles Sobhraj, and many others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-07-16
Mått140 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804295243

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Farrukh Dhondy is an award-winning author, screenwriter, playwright and activist. Born in Poona (now Pune) India in 1944 in a Parsi family, he came to the UK on a scholarship to read Natural Sciences and then English at Cambridge University. After university he kicked off a career in journalism interviewing Pink Floyd and Allen Ginsberg and covering the first meeting between the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. While a student and schoolteacher in Leicester and London he got involved with political activism, at first in the Indian Workers' Association, Leicester, and then in the UK Black Panther Movement and subsequently in the Race Today Collective where he worked alongside Darcus Howe and CLR James. He published his first books in the late 1970s and several TV drama and situation comedy series in the early 1980s and in 1984 worked as a Commissioning Editor, Multicultural programming for Channel 4 TV, UK in which capacity he was the driving force behind Desmonds, Salaam Bombay and the trailblazing Bandung File among fourteen years of diverse programming.

Uncles and Carrom BoardsSecret PassagesBad Words and Broken RecordsLazarusParsi CustardTowers of SilenceA Town Too SmallDeliberate DisguisesInnocence and ExperienceAmor Vincit OmniaBylines by LinesEenuk-A-Pole Hai Hai!Black Is a Political ColourDolly MixturesFireBig As de 'OuseRight Time, Right PlaceIn the Beginning Was the WordHouses for Mr and Mrs BiswasesPilgrim's ProgressAll the World's a TV SetA TV Hack's OdysseyThe Serial Killer and Red MercuryFilms I Didn't WriteFilms I Did WriteA Friendship and Three-Minute EggsAfterword: A Target Audience