September 2005

The Archives

• homistan, not baseball

  Faith in Cricket

  09.21.05 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  Recently, WaPo and NYT did pieces on the growing dominance of Christian prayer in baseball. Jesus is my designated hitter, indeed. I chuckled at the conflation of sports and religion in present day USA. Why can’t the Americans keep their religion off the pitch? The overt religiosity has always grated me in, what I perceive [...]

• homistan

  Baise Toi

  09.19.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Not that I have anything to add to The General’s newest controversy but I’d like to point out that, today, CM brother became a Canadian citizen. What he did to get the citizenship, I dare not ask :)

• holydays

  Piyo Pure

  09.19.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Nothing like rains in September to make me nostalgic and homesick and cranky and all that. Back in Lahore, this time of the year was usually the best time of year. Canal Road looked magnificent and the trees outside Physics Hall [my spot was on the yellow bench] dropped leaves in giant clusters that sat [...]

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  Deep Six

  09.15.05 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Timothy Garton Ash, in the Guardian, says that there are “six different views often heard in the west, but also, it’s important to add, in Muslim countries such as Iran” about the Troubles in Islam. These views, according to Ash, say much about those of us who hold them [whether they say anything about Islam [...]

• not baseball

  After the Ashes

  09.12.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Bloody good show, eh? England win back the Ashes from the Ozzies who have been hoarding them since 1987. The Ashes, lore has it, symbolized the cremation of the English cricket after their first defeat by Australia on home ground in 1882 [at the Oval]. The urn doesn’t really exchange hands - it just sits [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Wordsmiths

  09.11.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  A lot of people come to Hyde Park, after having read Devil in the City, looking for monuments of the World Fair of 1893. I didn’t know this but then today we went to hang out with The Lady, or The Republic as it was called, and met people walking around with the book in [...]