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Subrahmanyam deals … Even the broad intellectual grouping known as Subaltern Studies hasn’t taken domestic work into account, save for the occasional moment when a conversation with a servant provides the researcher with an anecdote or factoid to motivate an essay on some profound question or other. There are lots of nice bits in that [...]

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What great news! The Library of Congress’ 2008 Kluge Prize has been given to historians Romila Thapar and Peter Brown. I am huge admirer of these fine historians. In addition to her scholarship on antiquity and medieval Indian history, Thapar is the pre-eminent public intellectual with a staunch commitment to a secular India. Her work [...]

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I wish Angelina Jolie would just stay at that charpai and solve all our problems, with her ballpoint pen. In related news, CM was nominated for Best South Asian Blog at Brass Crescent Awards. Go look see at the best of Muslim-themed dishes the blog kitchen has to offer. I picked up a number of [...]

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Initial word makes it that Lashkar-e Tayiba, who have previously been suspects in the Oct. 2005 Delhi serial blasts and the July 2006 train blasts, is responsible for this atrocity. Damn them.

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A riff on the exile theme … I wonder if this announcement means that the General is moving to a nice Chicago suburb? (thx to scott.)

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This will surely be regarded as the best story of 2008 (at least, I will champion it): First, Dawn Mustafa Kamal second best mayor in the world KARACHI, Nov 9: The Foreign Policy magazine of the United States has chosen Karachi Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal as the second among the best three mayors in the [...]

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Our long national nightmare of our long national nightmare of peace And prosperity is finally over. Well, maybe.

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McCain must pick up Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, North Carolina, sez Nate Silver. Nate Silver knows his shit.

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A great Chicagoan is no more. My one story about Studs Terkel involves the blues and Romila Thapar – as she told us, about being hosted by Studs in the mid 60s in Chicago and being introduced to blues and jazz at the Checkerboard Lounge. So, here is Studs: Despite all the above misadventures, I [...]

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and, dare I say, two early faves:

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via Dawn, Oct 14, 2008: LAHORE, Oct 14: Ulema of all major schools of thought have declared suicide attacks ‘haram’. “It is a unanimous decree of the ulema that suicide attacks in Pakistan are haram and illegitimate. But it seems as if the government is covertly backing these attacks so that patriotic citizens may not [...]

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“I was in Australia and New York and here in England, I was at Oxford for a few years. At least two of those places were very egalitarian, and this was Sydney and New York and when I came back I had to a large extent forgotten what it had been to be well off [...]

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[via Sean @ 538.com, image by Brett.]

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via moacir…West Plains, Mo represent!. Oh, do read the comments. Sigh. related:Yes!.

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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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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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Via e. comes this brilliance. And I don’t use the word brilliant, that casually, you know. Actually, I do.

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