She swears at the rate of about once

She swears at the rate of about once every five minutes. She

wears amazingly high heels. She’s a pleasure to watch.

She and Patchett, sitting facing each other with a huge

Casual Vacancy book cover behind them, went right into the

technical stuff about the novel’s composition. “The

challenge was the structure of the book,” Rowling said. “I

had a complicated diagram — arrows going in all directions.

” (If you haven’t read the book, or the reviews, it’s a

kaleidoscopic sort of novel with lots of points of view and

many moving parts.) She works on a MacBook Air (“the MacBook

Air changed my life. I can now work really anywhere.”) She

had to cut out a lot of things she loved, including an

autopsy scene, but as she said several times, “we are

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ruthless people, writers.”

It was a big change for Rowling, a real gut-check, to write a

book that was this adult, with drugs and death and sex and

even rape. “The first couple of people who read it, the

immediate reaction was, ‘fucking hell!’ It’s so dark, it’

s just so dark,” she said. On the other hand, she pointed

out, the sex is not gratuitous — it’s not porn — which led

to the obligatory 50 Shades of Grey joke, which was in fact

the line of the night: “People have sex in this book, but

nobody really enjoys it. That’s the difference.”

Rowling didn’t stay focused strictly on The Casual Vacancy.

She and Patchett spent some minutes on the question of

children’s books and why they’re important. “Children are

very familiar with fear,” Rowling said. “And children’s

literature gives them a place to explore that.” (Rowling

also quoted, with a horrified shudder, an ‘expert’ she saw

on TV: “‘Children must be protected from their

imaginations.’”) They touched on Patchett’s second career

as a bookseller (Patchett’s first career is as a bestselling

novelist in her own right — Bel Canto, last year’s State of

Wonder, etc.) Apparently backstage Rowling had been talking

about how wonderful it must be to run a bookstore. “The

minute you left the room,” Rowling says, “my husband said,

‘Do not open a bookshop! We haven’t got enough going on?’

”

(Personally I think she should open a bookstore. Rowling’s

husband, a doctor, was sitting in the front row, and they

stopped at a couple of points for a little banter, but you

couldn’t see him, or hear him, from Row S in the orchestra.)

(MORE: J.K. Rowling: More Harry Potter Possible)

The Delhi High Court Wednesday

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Rikku, whose career was going through a lill after Dixit's

move to the US, was looking forward to her return.

Reportedly, the actress was back but Rikku wasn't a happy

man.

Dr Nene, who was yet to kick start his medical practice in

the city, was taking a keen interest in his wife's career.

Involved not just in negotiations, but also handling her

financial matters, it was Dr Nene holding the reins, leaving

Rikku answerable to him. The Delhi High Court Wednesday

directed the central government to take action within a week

against TV channel Colors for using the national anthem to

promote reality show " Bigg Boss 6" in cinema halls across

the country.

The court gave the directions after hearing a PIL against the

channel for running a commercial of the Salman Khan-hosted

show wherein an audio demanded that all present in the hall

should "stand up for the national anthem" as Big Bigg Boss

wanted it.

A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice

Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said: "In the wake of serious allegations

levelled by the petitioner that the national anthem is

disrespected, we direct the central government to treat this

PIL as representation and the grievances be dealt with in

accordance with the law."

The court added that "necessary action would be taken by the

ministry concerned against the respondents within a week".

the only time Audubon painted a dead bird

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He imitates the world he drove away
So well that for a minute, in the moonlight,
Which one's the mockingbird? Which one's the world?
Audubon was famous for animating his bird subjects--the terrified bobwhite quail scattering before the talons of a red-shouldered hawk look like panic- stricken pogrom victims and make you forget that, before being given such dramatic life, they were shot and posed by Audubon himself, who also had killed the killer hawk. Audubon killed in order to capture. A Bewick's wren, sitting innocently on the branch of an elm, was, according to Audubon, shot "standing ... in the position in which you now see it."
Death is everywhere in Audubon's work, but there are different kinds of death. His painting of a pair of Eskimo curlews has a strangely prophetic quality. In Audubon's painting, the female bird is dead--not shot or visibly maimed but simply dead--the only time Audubon painted a dead bird whose cause of death was not apparent. The dead bird lies stretched on the ground, her pale underparts exposed. The male bird looks sideways at its dead mate, with a kind of avian astonishment. There were huge flocks of Eskimo curlews in the 1870s, but, as the passenger pigeon diminished, it was turned to as a market bird, and, 20 years later, the bird was essentially gone. The last official sighting was in the 1960s; today, it is presumed extinct.