My new column, a review of Granta 112 (“the Pakistan issue”) is up on Bookslut. Here’s an excerpt: Green is the theme color in the Shahzads’ bedroom. The curtains pick up the tone of the bed linens, and a bamboo print hung between the windows extends the botanical motif. “There was nothing out of the [...]
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I have a new column at Bookslut. The title of my column comes to you courtesy of Sepoy. Here’s the link. The column is meant to introduce readers to South Asian literature beyond the Barnes and Noble display tables. The first installment is a review of India: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, edited by Chandrahas Choudhury. [...]
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Tennessee resident Gary Middleton worries that the mosque could house extremists. “It’s just another mosque, training kids to be terrorist,” he said. Stan Whiteway also objects to a new mosque for local Muslims. “I’m sorry, but they seem to be against everything that I believe in. So I don’t want them necessarily in my neighborhood,” [...]
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In February, I posted a review of Amitava Kumar’s novel Home Products. That self-same book, with minor revisions, is now out from Duke University Press under the title Nobody Does the Right Thing. Below is an excerpt from the review; to read the whole thing, click here. This past week, some years after hearing Amitava [...]
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Dear Mr. Nanga Fakir, We’re writing to let you know that the Committee for the Haminder Subah Sath Mehmil Memorial Foundation Annual Chapati Fellowship has met. After reviewing a very strong pool of thousands of international applicants, your dossier was chosen as the winning application. The Committee was particularly impressed with your strong commitment to [...]
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Seth G. Jones, the author of “In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan,” is a civilian adviser to the American military. One of the brains behind President Obama’s Afghanistan policy Seth G. Jones, of RAND & McCrystal has a particularly unhinged op-ed in today’s NYT: Take the War to Pakistan. The United States [...]
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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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This was the summer of my Macaca.
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This time with soaring music! [via]
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So, while I am moving hosts…btw, porting a Movable Type installation is a muthahumpa, I am contemplating switching over to Word Press. It’s PHP as opposed to lame horse Perl … and it’s guaranteed free. Not that that has any real appeal to me, I like paying developers for their work. But I know for [...]
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dear reader/ i am in the process of moving chapatimystery to a new host. process should finish today. i apologize for the disappearance.
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