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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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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Some pics from my recent trip. I have like 3 times more but I got tired of uploading them to Flickr. Enjoy.
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Wow, I totally missed CM’s 4th anniversary. Four years, 1095 posts, 98667 comments and 207,778 spams have passed since the beginning. A lot has changed in me, and in my approach to blogging, and in the tone of CM over the years. I don’t really know if besides Zack and Nitin and Sin, I have [...]
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His caramel baritone is singular. Like those of us at CM, you probably thought he was black, before you saw the video; not that it mattered, because his being a tiny, tiny, little, elfin Englishman, with a singing voice that dissolves panties on contact, made it even more amusing when he mounted and thrust himself [...]
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Thanks to Sepoy, my new website is up and running. The website currently displays only the work that will be in the show; my Flickr site will continue to display all my pictures. Some new paintings are not yet posted anywhere, as they will make their debut at the opening on Feb. 7. For those [...]
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I have been waiting, patiently and with bated breath, for this moment for a while now. Those close to me can attest that I am not a patient man, so this has been a rather Amir Hamzaish effort on my part. Lapata is having a show! Let me state that a bit more emphatically: Lapata [...]
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_______________________________________________________________________ A Happy Eid (and xmas, hannukah, kwanzaa, festivus) to all CM readers – may your bakras look better than Fidel.
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Eid Mubarak. To all my gentle readers, a very delightful and happy Eid ul-Fitr. It is either today or Saturday across the Muslim world … it is fun everywhere. I will try and get some Maamool and some firni. Good Stuff. Oh, and Congratulations to Al Gore!
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Today, on Bapu’s birthday, here is a talkie: and a silence: And so we wait, and see monks with prayers on their lips, and students with hopes in their hearts, marching towards pagodas, as soldiers armed by the Chinese beat them. And the world’s largest democracy, India, does nothing. [thx Rohit]
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As a birthday gift (contestable) to you, my gentle reader, I will post all the things that have been looming in my head for the past week. All. Watch this space. I. India vs. Pakistan in the World Cup Twenty20 Finals. I am sure this is big news in the subcontinent. Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra [...]
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