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  Camera Indica

  09.24.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I am going to continue to pimp Big Picture.
  Though, honestly, this time around, I did have a slight twinge of “India Essentialized”. What do I know, though.

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  Tuesday Links

  09.23.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  First, a profile of Montgomery McFate, the anthropologist who launched the Human Terrain Program, by Noah Shachtman. Michael Bhatia, who died in Afghanistan in May, was one of the casualties of the HTP.
  Next, via Daku come some linkage:
  - Larki pay hath utatha hay, madarchod! - I cannot even quantify the laugh/cringe ratio of [...]

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  Going Native

  09.22.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Via e. comes this brilliance.

  And I don’t use the word brilliant, that casually, you know. Actually, I do.

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  Hanif on Zardari

  09.19.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  From The National, UAE, Exiles’ Return - a superb piece by Muhammad Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
  In Karachi, you can only hear the distant thunder of the war on terror: the new Taliban bombing our brothers in faith, and the retaliations of America’s Taliban-hunting-toys, bombing more of our brothers in faith. There [...]

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  Zungu Notes

  09.17.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  CM friend zunguzungu has three must-reads up, on Bush Doctrine, McCain, Obama, and all things considered.
  Bush Doctrine is about lynching,
  Lynching, Shock & Awe and other violent spectacles,
  Death and American Spectacles, Take three

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  , Interrupted

  09.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “If we must say something, let’s at least only say true things.1 The principle of his fiction, as I understand it.”
  Zadie Smith @ McSweeney’s.

  “He went on to mention, all too briefly, his hope that there might be “a model for what free, informed adulthood might look like in the context of Total Noise: not [...]

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  Yes!

  09.12.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  The golden age of political signage is upon us. [HT, wonkette.]

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  Good Ice Cream at Avari

  08.31.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From *Daily Waqt* - published from Lahore, Sunday August 31, 2008:
  Obama’s mother stayed in Pakistan for 5 years
  Lahore (Pervez Al-Islam): The mother of American Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, Mrs. Ann Dunham lived in Pakistan for five years. During this time, Barack Obama also visited his mother and stayed for a few month. Mrs. Ann [...]

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  Blame Anderson

  07.23.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  <media critique>Good God, this is some ridiculous shite.</media critique>

  Oh, for full effect, turn the volume off and just follow the subtitles.

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  Days of Being Wild

  06.25.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 post [...]