{"id":18936,"date":"2018-11-03T06:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18936"},"modified":"2018-11-03T06:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T03:13:39","slug":"18936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/03\/18936\/","title":{"rendered":"An Indian in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/899870\/five-lessons-an-indian-author-learned-at-europes-biggest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-convention\">Five lessons Shweta Taneja learned at Europe\u2019s biggest sci-fi and fantasy convention<\/a>, a fascinating write-up by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/16\/indian-genre-publications\/\">Indian science fiction author<\/a> encountering the bare-bones DIY approach&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Authors at Indian festivals are mollycoddled. At one of the first festivals I attended, the Chandigarh Literary Festival, the kind organisers sent an SUV with a teacher and two children and bouquets to the Chandigarh airport. From that moment, everything was managed by an army of literary festival organisers. Not so in Europe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine he might have had a somewhat different experience with a more genteel upmarket literary festival, outside the urban areas, of the sort with nominally-paid interns and hospitality budgets.  But even then, it would probably be a bit more stripped back than in India.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what Lovecraft would have been like at an urban mega-vention? I mean, he was used to the demure micro-meetups of amateur journalists and then various later convivial cafe meetings of &#8216;the circle&#8217;. But an enormous fan-o-rama of thousands?  I&#8217;d suspect he would have been the uber-notorious one in the dark glasses and pompadour hair, being smuggled by a security detail through subterranean access tunnels, to pop up through a trap door beneath the main stage. The big keynote speech given, he&#8217;d press the button to auto-sign everyone&#8217;s ebook, and then be whisked off to the waiting helicopter.  Either that, or he just wouldn&#8217;t have gone to such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five lessons Shweta Taneja learned at Europe\u2019s biggest sci-fi and fantasy convention, a fascinating write-up by an Indian science fiction &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/03\/18936\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}