An edited version of below appeared in The Guardian’s Comment is Free 06/27. I decided to post the longer version here. Think of this as the first of many posts to come. Maybe even one of those book thingies… “Pakistan is in a leaderless drift four months after elections” concludes Carlotta Gall in the New [...]
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Film scholar David Bordwell’s blog is about the only thing I read on film and this entry on WKW’s two versions for Ashes of Time Days of Being Wild is just awesome read for us fans (of both Wong Kar Wai and David Bordwell). I know, long post. But the end leads to another long [...]
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I highly recommend that you go out and watch Tarsem Singh Dhabdwar’s The Fall. Think of it as a companion piece to del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth – obsessed with stories, story-tellers and the corrosive realities that surround them both. I was hesitant to go see it, until I read Ebert’s interview with Tarsem (worth reading [...]
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via BASAS: I wanted to draw your attention to a new annual accademic prize that has been instituted for Humanities and Social Science students studying at a university in Pakistan. The Falak Sufi Memorial Prize has been established to support innovative work on women and gender in South Asia by Pakistani undergraduate and graduate students. [...]
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While Hijab-Gate continues to roll across our screens and inboxes, the world was just made safer for terrorist snoopers. Priorities, people! update: Just saw Obama’s disappointing statement. Also: First Day of Summer.
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The only thing better than the meals I had in SF, was the company. More photography of the culinary set below the fold.
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Fox News unveiled their strategy for keeping the WH for the Republicans: Next up? Obama shown sippin Cristal? I don’t know if this musters a mythbusting entry but one can never be too careful. Gawker lists the Top Five.
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These days, America teeters on the verge of having its dumbest Supreme Court since the Dred Scott jacktards who hastened the Civil War; currently, its four fascist-leaning members hold views that range from “too-Catholic to be believed,” to “I will have my revenge on Black America for calling me Uncle Tom.” In fairness, one must [...]
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I just had dinner at a Nile-side restaurant with two Egyptian officials and a businessman, and one of them quoted one of his children as asking: “Could something like this ever happen in Egypt?” And the answer from everyone at the table was, of course, “no.” It couldn’t happen anywhere in this region. Could a [...]
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New Zealand soliders perform the traditional warrior dance or haka during a ceremony welcoming U.S., first lady Laura Bush, right, at the military compound in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 8, 2008. New Zealand military took over Bamiyan’s Provincial Reconstruction Team Base from U.S. Troops in 2003. On the left of Bush is Major Justin de [...]
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I will be in Sanfranchisco next week – attending Apple’s annual orgy of technology and hype. But also hanging out with me dear friends. I might live-blog Jobs address but I have a feeling my CM audience will not really care. So, I will IM-blog it instead. It goes without saying that posting will be [...]
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I’m the new blue blood, I’m the great white hope I’m the new blue blood…
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Edward Eastwick (1814–1883) joined the East India Company in 1836 as a cadet but was soon promoted because of his capacity for language acquisition. In 1845 the East India Company appointed him to the post of professor of Urdu at their officer-training school at Haileybury. He continued to serve the India Office in a number [...]
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A week or so ago Stephen Mihm had an interesting article in Boston Globe, Everyone’s a historian now: How the Internet – and you – will make history deeper, richer, and more accurate. Mihm concentrated on the effect of crowd sourcing on history as a research/archival practice, but I have been thinking about the positive [...]
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