April 2005

The Archives

• not baseball

  PostColonial Cricket

  04.17.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Played a few games of cricket yesterday. The venue was the entrance to the Reg. Ostensibly, we were all there for this. But, the sun was shining blue and I had a bat in my hand after a long, long time. The teams and the audience were a mixed bag of subalternists, cambridge wallas, and [...]

• holydays

  Revelations II

  04.16.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  My first experience with Tim LaHaye was as a horny preteen. On one sweltering Ohio afternoon, while visiting my Aunt Deb, and while also moving my bowels, I happened upon a paperback in their bathroom bookstack called The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love. Its cover featured a lazy couple necking, after a [...]

• holydays, stardust

  Revelations I

  04.15.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  The alternative society created in part by Hollywood myopia, and the cynicism-or, depending on your point of view, foresight of The Passion’s marketers, has come to fruition. Senate majority leader Bill Frist has decided to exercise what the press and Congressional Republicans call the ‘nuclear option’ to make it easier for Senate Republicans to bring [...]

• optical character recognition

  Historivale

  04.15.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Jonathan Dresner hosts History Carnival # 6. Irfan Khawaja’s post on Jalianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 and Weekend Fisher’s post on Talmudic Messianism caught my eye. As well as this excellent post by the little professor on representations of Anne Boleyn. Sounds very familiar.
  Now go read the best that History has to offer in blogistan.

• homistan

  At the Grown Up Table

  04.13.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The Group of Four vs. the Coffee Club. India vs. Pakistan. Japan vs. China. History vs. Politics. It plays out like a grand opera of broken trusts and rebounded relationships but it is the very realpolitiks surrounding the reform and expansion of the United Nations Security Council. I know that this isn’t the sexiest of [...]

• talkies

  Calling All Filmmakers and Fans

  04.12.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A lovely group of Seattle-based cineastes are calling out for new independently produced films about South Asia. Their Independent South Asian Film Festival (ISAFF) was a blast last yearÖ a well-balanced mix of very cool filmmakers and ñgoers, but refreshingly lacking in pretense. Maybe it’s the salty breezes of Puget Sound, or some lingering spirit [...]

• homistan

  Camel Fodder

  04.11.05 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  Following Qatar’s lead, UAE has decided to replace kidnapped South Asian children with robots as jockeys in the most popular camel races.
  Camel racing is as old as the two oldest bedouins with camels and a long stretch of desert turf. In the Roman accounts of Syria and the Hadramawt, there are mentions of horse and [...]

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for Ten Year Olds

  04.10.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Who has been eating my porridge? While I was having a fairly busy weekend, CM exploded with posts. And brilliant ones at that. I feel like Jeff Van Gundy clinging to Alonzo Mourning’s leg. All I have are some feeble links:

  I am torn about the art of Rajkamal Kahlon. The Orientalist histories of India come [...]

• homistan

  Hot Chapati: Food and Culture I

  04.10.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  In attendance at the British royal wedding last week were two Bombay/Mumbai dabbawalas. Apparently, the Raja of England met the gents on a trip to India a couple of years back, and liked them so much he decided to fly them to jolly England for his nups.
  Collectively, these much-lauded ‘lunch-runners’ of Mumbai [...]

• holydays

  Glory of the Olives

  04.10.05 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  St. Malachy comes back from the dead for each conclave. Reason being, in the 12th century CE he made a prospective list of Popes that culminate two Popes from now–at the end of the world. The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us:
  The most famous and best known prophecies about the popes are those attributed to St. Malachy. [...]