Timothy Burke on the Duke lacrosse case at Cliopatria. I cannot recommend this post highly enough.
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March 2006
Spike Lee’s Inside Man: Quick Change meets The Negotiator and some post-9/11/NY and Bollywood remixes sprinkled. Not half bad.
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Amartya Sen in Slate: What Clash of Civilizations? If we could just stop ‘engaging’ Sam Huntington’s ludicrous panic-sheet, it will be A-Ok w/ me.
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TREMENDOUS NEWS: Jill Carroll is safe after being released by the kidnappers!
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Good: Voxtrot. Also Ramesh has a blog.
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That Saddam sure be nuts, yo!
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Purchases today: The Wind and the Lion, A Yank in Libya. Empire wha?
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Who says they don’t make movies about the positive sides of terrorism? Belgium movie: Hop.
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Mr. Bush Goes to War
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One of my fav. classes at Chicago was with Chalapathy…so it is quite awesome that his book is out and drawing comparisons to D.R. Nagaraj and Ashis Nandy [thx pdcs]
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His Imperial Highness Prince Osman Ertugrul of Turkey and Princess Zeynep in NYC. And they want the caliphate to come back too!
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One of the imaginary courses I want to teach in the near-future would be a course on Empires and their native agents. Writing my paper for the recent conference kinda crystallized the desire and reading Dipeshda’s introduction to the Bernard Cohn Omnibus was a real inspiration. In the interest of such a course [and the [...]
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Somethings happening here…
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Clive of India’s tortoise dies, aged 255.
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You know, for the kids.
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Two great YouTube recommendations: Bush&Mush Press conference [thx, sonee!] and Loose Furs’ Hey Chicken [thx, jason!]
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If you walk out of my door, the gusting wind will chill you to your bones. So, allow me some grumblings for wishing a [belated] Happy No-ruz to all my gentle readers. No-ruz, New Day, the vernal equinox, the first day of Spring, has to be the oldest celebration around. Some say it goes far [...]
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Over the weekend, we went to a rally marking the third anniversary of the war. We being myself, pdcs and our lynchpin, rajeev. It was a chilly night. The atmosphere was festive, even. There were the usual anarchists/socialists/communists/retired school teachers but also a lot of people with no banners, hands stuck in pockets, just walking. [...]
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The world’s best books – the dude oughta read more.
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