A note from J. Washburn Stoker
I really enjoy reading (and watching) P.G. Wodehouse, and not surprisingly, I am not alone.
Headline Telegraph: Wodehouse clicks with India’s computer generation
Jeeves would probably have found it, like one of his master’s more garish suits, “a trifle too bizarre” but the wonderful Indian world of information technology is in the throes of an obsession with all things P G Wodehouse….
Rather than being discarded as outmoded, however, Wodehouse is now being embraced by India’s computer generation. The epicentre of Wodehouse mania is the southern city of Bangalore, where quiz nights and discussion evenings are organised by enthusiasts whose nicknames are taken from the novels’ characters.
“We get some pretty curious looks from other diners when we address each other,” said Deepak Misra, 40, a manager for an IT company, who is known to his peers as J Hamilton Beamish.
Isn’t that going a little over the top? I mean, who would go around using a P.G. Wodehouse character as a pseudonym?
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