October 2006

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• univerCity

  MADiFun

  10.19.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A Huzzah! to my man Whitney Cox for defending his dissertation today. Much cel[r]ebration will be had.
  And, tomorrow all concerned are going to the 35th Annual South Asia Conference at Madison. I have a panel Digital Humanities for South Asia with a paper, From Diwan to Database: Digital Archives of South Asia - along [...]

• talkies

  Shakespeare Re-mixed

  10.15.06 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Recently, we watched Omkara - Vishal Bharadwaj’s adaptation of Othello. A few nights ago, I watched Xiaoxang Feng’s The Banquet - Hamlet set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms of China. I could seriously geek out over the visual delights offered by both of these productions, but I will restrain myself since I have [...]

• optical character recognition, persophilia

  Chapati Review: Chicken with Plums

  10.13.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Chicken with Plums, by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon Books, 2006), $16.95.

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  Gadzooks! Every time you turn around these days there’s a new Marjane Satrape graphic novel for sale. The graphic novel translator’s league must be burning the midnight oil at HQ in the North Pole churning out translations of our favorite French cartoonists in English, Spanish, [...]

• homistan, noted

  Microcredit Wins

  10.13.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The Nobel committee continues its rampage of making-news: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh were awarded the Peace prize. A true pioneer - his bank gives loans without collateral, relying on a system of trust and honor - he has done more to fight poverty than all those Bono jeans at Gap. As of [...]

• noted

  Best is So Yesterday

  10.12.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Best South Asia Blog.

• noted

  Pamuk Wins

  10.12.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Ending the longest tease ever, the Nobel committee finally decided to give Pamuk the Literature prize. Woulda made more sense last year, no?
  We will have to wait for e.’s take but a list of his work: Cevdet Bey ve Ogullar√Ω, 1979, Sessiz Ev (The Silent House), 1984, Beyaz Kale (The White Castle), 1985, Kara [...]