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  Our Sahib

  06.23.05 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  The controversy sparked by BJP prez Lal Krishna Advaniís comments about Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi earlier this month raises forcefully, once more, questions of the deeply politicized nature of historical memory ñ especially when it comes to major events and figures of colonial South Asia and the nationalist movement. In an uncharacteristic sentimental [...]

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  Empire Week V: Black Legends

  06.09.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Greetings gentle readers, I am pleased to join you once again. While I have been on hiatus (occupied by, among other things, the process of moving from the Lone Star State home to the sprawling and weather-rich cosmopolis of Miami for the summer; upon which more, perhaps, later), Sepoy has opened up a [...]

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  Watans, Wickets and Walis

  04.17.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Pakistanís Military Dictator-cum-President Parvez Musharraf is in India this weekend, in what is being hailed on both sides of the border (India, Pakistan and even in vilayat) as another successful round of cricket diplomacy (the first being Ziaís surprise trip to meet Rajiv Gandhi in Rajasthan in 1987). This cricket match, played in the Firuz [...]

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  Hot Chapati: Food and Culture I

  04.10.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  In attendance at the British royal wedding last week were two Bombay/Mumbai dabbawalas. Apparently, the Raja of England met the gents on a trip to India a couple of years back, and liked them so much he decided to fly them to jolly England for his nups.
  Collectively, these much-lauded ‘lunch-runners’ of Mumbai [...]