February 2006

The Archives

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  Daily Chosun Link II

  02.28.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Daily Chosun continues to astound with analysis: When Girls Want Sex

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  Faith

  02.28.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  From two links gathered over the last two days. One Jain. One Shi’a. In eternal mourning or eternal celebration, faith is an achingly beautiful thing.

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  Requests

  02.27.06 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  My readers are such lovely people. They know that I am just goofing off under the pretense of being busy. So, they do not hesitate to ask of me what they want. Here is gentle reader, Jeff:
  Dear Mystery Man,
  I see from CM that you are (a) hip and (b) someone who appreciates music. Perhaps […]

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  Akbar is available

  02.23.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If there is one news story that can make me write 10 blog posts [and a dissertation]…that story is Kabul objects to Pakistani missile names. All of you can thank your lucky stars that I am too damn busy.

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  So Not Good

  02.22.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This = very bad. No, really. V.E.R.Y. B.A.D.

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  They Know Not Cricket

  02.22.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “Cricket as Art”. An amazing Radio 3 presentation by Darkus Howe on CLR James and Cricket. Must listen. [via CT].
  There is a gorgeous paragraph in Beyond the Boundary that I can merely echo:
  Our house was superbly situated, exactly behind the wicket. I doubt it for some years I knew what I was looking at […]

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  Dear Malcolm

  02.21.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  On this day in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. Slate has a wonderful collection of photos. You can also listen to his speeches and see more pictures. I also recommend Brother Minister.

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  More Work

  02.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  [haris]chandra writes about our berkeley conference. I wholeheartedly agree - in principle.

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  نيا نيا کون

  02.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world…Francis Fukuyama wonders for whom the bell tolls.

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  Noor

  02.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hers, after all, is a remarkable chapter in the history of Muslims in Britain and the West.

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  Sharif Likes It

  02.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  These cartoons are a riot. Great work!

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  Sharif Don’t Like It

  02.17.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Danial reports that there was at least one peaceful protest against the rise in greenhouse gases despite Kyoto in Karachi today. We are all concerned about global warming.

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  Zirdast/زير دست

  02.15.06 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I am off to Berkeley for the next few days and the weekend. I am on a panel with some soon-to-be-illustrious names of South Asia studies. My intention is to keep the conversation to the plebian level. I also intend on finishing the paper. Ahem.
  Also next week, our own conference at Chicago, begins. And […]

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  A Texting Issue

  02.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  The history that such nationalists would impose upon students is invariably a sanitized one, cleansed of unpleasant facts about systematic forms of discrimination and exploitation which are as much a part of human history as the aspiration for freedom and liberation from oppression. Vinay Lal’s letter on the California history textbook/Hinduism issue. Do read.

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  Pakistani Mobs

  02.14.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Danial has a post w/ pics of violent mobs in Lahore protesting the two recent losses of Pakistani cricket team to India. Very sad.