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  Sunday Reading for Speed Racers

  05.18.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I watched Iron Man a few weeks ago in Copenhagen. It is a pretty boring movie - except for fans of Robert Downey Jr. - but it is worth watching for professional reasons alone. Let me explain, briefly. The movie that most brilliantly captured the particular brand of American Orientalism was 1994’s True Lies. Can [...]

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  on the railway

  04.22.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  a long long time ago, a palmist told me that everything in my life will be hard, but i will achieve whatever it is that I wanted. just nothing will come easy. and then another person told me the same thing. No wonder I used to day dream about being a station manager of a [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Chee Malabar

  04.20.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The revelation was Chee Malabar. I know, and knew, that Yogi B will be global. They are way too talented and ferocious, live - to not force themselves into every iPod on the block. They are also incredibly genuine and warm. But, it is Chee, for whom I must evangelize. Though, I had heard a [...]

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  Monsoon Chutney

  03.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  CM reader JM sends in this note for all you gentle readers.

  Hi! Hoping you Chapati Mystery readers can help me find a publisher for my first novel, Monsoon Chutney. It’s the multi-generational tale of an upper-caste Indian-American family. What’s really fresh about this work, I feel, is that each generation has its own unique [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Super Week

  02.03.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  “The worst uncontrolled reentry in history occurred in July 1979, when Skylab, America’s abandoned, 78-ton space station — which had long since run out of maneuvering fuel — came down earlier than planned, raining debris across the Australian outback.”
  We would be playing out in Doha’s deserty fields and my mother, standing in the doorway, would [...]

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  Prison Lyrics

  01.12.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  In 1953, when Dast-i Saba (Wind’s Palm) was published, Faiz Ahmed Faiz had been in jail for almost two years. He would remain in jail for another two. He was charged with conspiracy to overthrow the nascent state of Liaqat Ali Khan and arrested in early March, 1951.
  You can read about Faiz’s prison days and [...]

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  George MacDonald Fraser, 1925-2008

  01.02.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The hits keep on coming. George MacDonald Fraser, creator of Harry Flashman, has died at the age of 82. If you haven’t read the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE, do it now. Start.
  As I’ve said, it was Sir Daniel Darnley who led me to Esquemeling, and Conan Doyle to Froissart, Graves [...]

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  Sunday Reading for the Decadent

  11.26.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  The time has come to take Sepoy to task with regard to his blanket condemnation of the New York Times. I am willing to cede the point that numerous op-ed writers for that newspaper of record often appear to lack even the most basic skills needed in making a logical argument. In the [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Resistance

  11.18.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Today, November 18th, 2007’s New York Time op-ed page is the absolute worst piece of printed tripe. ever. I know I haven’t read every op-ed page ever printed, but I am sure I can defend my assertion. Exhibit A: Shake, Rattle and Roll by Maureen Dowd. Exhibit B: Channeling Dick Cheney by Thomas Friedman. Exhibit [...]

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  Sunday Reading for Bazaaris

  10.28.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Thanks to my main man, Rajeev, we enjoyed a sunday afternoon at Soldier’s Field watching John Kitna decimate the Bears with his precision prayers. NFL is way more the carnival then any other sporting event - and perhaps much more taxing on the senses. Still, it seems though that watching a football game live is [...]

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  Documents of 1857

  10.03.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Naim sahib has a scathing review in Outlook India of S.M. Azizuddin Husain’s 1857 Revisited/دستاويزاتِ غدر . The book is a compendium of 150 primary documents relating to the uprising and its aftermath, with translations and an introductory essay. A fine idea, in principle, but the problem, as Naim Sahib points out, is in the [...]

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  Pragati

  10.01.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  I have a small piece in this month’s issue of Pragati: The Indian National Interest Review on, well, Pakistan. I wasn’t able to spend much time on this piece so I am unsure if it meets the standards of the journal.
  You can download the issue and circulate it around.
  I should also congratulate Nitin Pai [...]

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  Porter on Decolonization

  09.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In the Aug 2, 2007 issue of LRB, Bernard Porter had a review essay, Trying to Make Decolonisation Look Good, covering Ronald Hyam’s Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-68, Peter Clarke’s The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire and Sir Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper’s Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain’s Asian [...]

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  Sunday Reading for the Gods

  09.16.07 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  The ICC World Twenty20 is currently underway in South Africa. It is exciting and exhilarating and droves of fans are watching this most amazing and necessary rejuvenating elixir pumped into the staid, old, decrepit body of Cricket. Or so they tell me. I really cannot be bothered. Apparently the India-Pakistan match ended in a tie [...]

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  Down to The Wire I

  09.04.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Also see, David Simon in The Believer [via kottke]