May 2007

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• homistan

  Free Dr. Binayak Sen

  05.19.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Dr. Binayak Sen, paediatrician and senior civil rights activist, has spent decades training and helping people in villages in Chhattisgarh - running free clinics in remote areas and helping enable communities to provide health care. He is also the national vice-president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties and a critic of the Salwa Judum - [...]

• noted

  Sell That Gin, Gunga Din

  05.18.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  
  

• talkies

  Aliens in America!

  05.17.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Here’s the madcap comedy we’ve all been waiting for:
  The CW’s only new comedy, “Aliens in America,” is about a high school student trying to adjust to a Pakistani exchange student.
  UPDATE:
  The plot just gets better. According to this source:

  The comedy will focus on a shy nerdy kid living in a small Wisconsin town whose mother [...]

• holydays

  Mangoes

  05.15.07 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Enough doom and gloom … mangoes are in the market people! MANGOES. Mangoes like Sarholi, DoSahri, Almas, Sindhri, Choonsa, Anwar Ratol….which must mean that summer is nearby. And guess what? Next summer, we desis stuck in pardes will be able to buy some of those fine, fine Sindhi mangoes in Chicago too.

• homistan

  Troubles

  05.15.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  “Karachi is smelling quite similar to early 90s.” My dear friend, who lives and works in Karachi, responded thusly to my query about his safety. For everyone’s sake, I pray not.
  I saw this ad in Daily Jang the day after the massacres. I don’t know who sponsored it - but the language makes me think [...]

• homistan

  Karachi is Burning

  05.12.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  In a showdown that was seen coming, at least 33 people were killed and scores injured in Karachi today in clashes set off by the arrival of the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
  Forget CNN, please read these messages from the field.

• homistan

  Free Chandramohan

  05.12.07 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Chandramohan Srilamantula is a final year post-graduate student in Graphics at Fine Arts department at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat. In 2006 he received the Lalit Kala National Akademi Award for his work. As part of his final examination, along with other students, he put up his graphic print installations in the Faculty building. His [...]

• noted, univerCity

  I’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again

  05.10.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  First it was my Dalrymple review and now, I have gone and picked on the American Historical Association. A rundown is available at Inside Higher Ed’s Inclusivity or Tokenism? by Scott Jaschik.

• holydays

  Sepoys Take Manhattan

  05.08.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you are in or around NYC and you care about raging against the machine, then do I have the event for you: Remembering 1857. Our own bulleyah is playing the role of Mangal Pandey. Do attend. And someone live-blog. I will try and mark the event - digitally.

• noted

  Ancient Pills

  05.08.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Suketu Mehta’s A Big Stretch, NYT, May 7th, begins with chiding the USPTO for issuing “134 patents on yoga accessories and 2,315 yoga trademarks” but goes on to make a much-weaker analogy with pharmaceutical patents in India. Though, I agree with both of his points independently - you can’t really trademark ‘yoga‘ and generic medicenes [...]