Some signage from Lahore. The translations are on the flickr site. (Also additional shots).
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March 2008
Lahore, should you be curious, is a food-lover’s paradise. The traditional North Indian cuisines (your biryanis and your karahis and whatnot) get augmented with Sindhi and Pashtun varieties of preparation and serving. Various streets and muhallahs (neighborhoods) are famous for various types of foods. I didn’t sample anything, this trip. The most daring I got [...]
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I have been having these vivid dreams. Places and conversations continued from Lahore. Waking up every morning is quite a disorienting experience. The landscapes are stuck, the tape paused. I guess it can all be ascribed to jet lag or to this rather unmoored feeling that envelopes me. Whatever the case may be, I find [...]
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My dear friends will be casting the harsh light of scholarship and analysis onto the murky swamp of Pakistan. Do attend. Spread the word. I surely wish I was there. The Center for Place, Culture & Politics Presents Demystifying Pakistan: Understanding the Current Crisis A panel discussion on the military in Pakistani politics, society and [...]
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CM reader JM sends in this note for all you gentle readers. Hi! Hoping you Chapati Mystery readers can help me find a publisher for my first novel, Monsoon Chutney. It’s the multi-generational tale of an upper-caste Indian-American family. What’s really fresh about this work, I feel, is that each generation has its own unique [...]
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Obama’s pastor, and McCain’s “advisors” pulled back the Veil on the Holy of Holies last week, exposing a brutal truth for those who live within the secular narrative. It is this: religious people believe things that seem strange to outsiders. Those religious folks also believe things that are specifically informed by their subjective experiences, which [...]
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Gentle Readers, I ask so little of you. And I give you so much. Well, the fairy tale has to end some day, right? So. CM will be largely silent for the next few weeks and I need to make some announcements for your help.
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Written, produced, directed and narrated by Kiran Khalid, the short documentary on media and Pakistan, We Are Not Free is now online. I highly recommend watching it.
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Catching up on my NYer, I see that Salman Rushdie is now doing movie tie-in literature. To coincide with the release of Jodha Akbar, is his maudlin The Shelter of the World. Finally, someone brings the missing Three Deep Marks on testicles to the historical narrative discovered by the mighty good fillum. Um. Enjoy?
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