Most years this date floats by, but thanks to the CM FAN PAGE ON FACEBOOK (!) I was reminded of that April afternoon six long years ago when I started to ruminate (ahem) on here. On an escalator at AAS, one wag stated out loud, oh dude, I was reading CM when in high school. [...]
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Gentle Readers, I wish you all a best of 2010. Posting will be sparse for a little while but I hope to pick it up in the new year with tons of exciting insight into celebrity lives. yours, sepoy.
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Sundays in Berlin are quiet affairs. The usual shops are all closed – groceries, pharmacies, booksellers, fruit vendors, bike shops, bakeries, discount stores. You get the picture. In some U-bahn stations, in some busy corners, there would be a lone bakery, a hold-out grocer. New Berliners, such as myself, collect these informational nugget, knowing that [...]
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It is time for the annual CM slumber. I may poke my nose here if something compels but, really, I have a move to plan and execute. In the meantime, you can satiate yourself on my (in)frequent shoutouts on twitter. Sepoy, twit follow me on Twitter
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Gentle readers, I am off to beautiful SF. If you are in the area, I would love to see you there. Expect some food fotos next week. In the meantime be nice to swines and laborers on this fine May Day.
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Today marks the fifth year anniversary of this here blog. Here be the first post. Thank you, gentle readers, for being here, for reading, for participating, for sending me links and articles, for being supportive, for sharing. Let the chapatis “flourish”. Yeah? My puns are getting worse, as I age.
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I failed to note holi here. But this set of big pictures and a fortuitous scan (courtesy of Alam Sahib) gives me an excellent excuse to post this Mughal painting from 1625 and widely credited to Govardhan. It shows, first of all, the various activities associated with Holi. And I love the drunk Jahangir being [...]
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Folks, I will be in Lahore for the next couple of weeks. You can follow my adventures through immigration portals here. And look forward to lots of new fotos upon the return. Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter
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I am pretty sure that the Jaipur Literary Festival is a mela that I need to be at. I can’t be, but please go and rub shoulders with the likes of the Rudolphs, Wendy, Dalrymple et. al. In fact, William Dalrymple & Namita Gokhale are the creative directors. The festival will be held from 21st [...]
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SMSes are running around saying that India has attacked. To all my gentle readers, a merry end to 2008.
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Some blurry snaps of the night….
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via Babu… Wallace Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (excerpts) I The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, “You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.” The man replied, “Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.” And [...]
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I failed to note Gandhiji’s birthday yesterday. Or note these great photos: (Pawan Kumar/Reuters) (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)
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Over at Big Picture, my favorite blog if you care, is a wonderful series, Observing Ramadan.
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Our friend Lapata is having an exhibition at Counter Pulse and I failed, miserably, to notify you. More importantly, I wasn’t able to attend in person. She has put the works featured in the show on her flickr page: Dhoom Dhamaka! Show. I think some of her strongest work, to date, is being featured in [...]
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originally posted September 13, 2007 Jagtay Raho was the ever-contradictory yell uttered at regular intervals by the night watchman in our neighborhood. He was a wizened old man, at least I think he was old, who carried a heavy stick and sometimes a M1 Carbine. Jagtay Raho, he would dramatically intone right as he passed [...]
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Pakistan is in dire straits. It is a nation at a crossroads. Extremism is around the corner. The politicians are corrupt. The nukes could end up in the hands of bin Laden. Pakistan is in dire straits. Its people demand accountability. Those who claim to protect it and make it prosperous seem busy keeping themselves [...]
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Not that I have been burning up the internets lately, but I am officially on a break for the next six or so weeks. Guest posts, should they arrive, will be a welcome contribution. If you write, or read, something cool, post it in comments below for all of us. I wish you all, my [...]
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AP: Racial Profiling Eyed for Terror Probes: Terrorist Profile Could Single Out Muslims, Arabs, or Other Racial and Ethnic Groups. Know Your Rights produced by the excellent Muslim Advocates. PS: Happy Birthday Baba! And Happy Birthday, America.
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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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