Chapati Mystery

16 Comments

1. Aamir
   Posted July 23, 2005 at 4:07 pm | Permalink

   Abida Perveen with Gulzar
   Sajjad Ali’s latest album
   Anything by Tuffail Niazi
   Broken verses by Kamila Shamsi
   Kulliat-e-Shivkumar Batalvi
   INDUS SAGA by Aitazaaz Ahsan
   veer zara
   you’ll feel good

2. har
   Posted July 23, 2005 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

   Why, you could always spring for the whole Penguin Classics collection! (Think of the free shipping!)

   Actually, the New Yorker 8 DVD set looks quite good.

3. har
   Posted July 23, 2005 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

   oops, the link to the classics collection is this
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0147502683/ref=pd_sxp_f/103-7488455-7355861?v=glance&s=books

4. Chris Martin
   Posted July 23, 2005 at 7:05 pm | Permalink

   Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell &
   The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
   in case you haven’t already read them.

5. Jonathan Dresner
   Posted July 24, 2005 at 4:06 am | Permalink

   Arrogant Worms. It’s a musical group: Canadians, very, very funny stuff.

   Total Empire by Louise Young: it’s about the Japanese empire in Manchuria, but it’s gonna get cited by a lot of Empire theorists soon.

   Haven’t seen any good movies in ages….

6. Darwaish
   Posted July 24, 2005 at 6:11 am | Permalink

   Exterior Of Dome Of The Rock, Jerusalem, Israel, Fine Art Print by Lee Foster, 24×18
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009NT838/qid=1122203322/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i8_xgl60/102-0756316-7186551?v=glance&s=home-garden&n=507846#amzn-reviews

   Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553375407/qid=1122202887/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1/102-0756316-7186551?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

   Abida Parveen: Faiz by Abida - Timeless Poetry Rendered Sublime
   http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y03Y4886001Y7258642/102-0756316-7186551

   I think you have already read Ishmael
   Enjoy ;)

7. Don Cox
   Posted July 24, 2005 at 9:48 am | Permalink

   Get the new CD “In the Heart of the Moon” by Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabet√à. Superb instrumentals, improvised on guitar and kora.

8. sepoy
   Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

   Many thanks all. Excellent suggestions.

9. Yasin
   Posted July 25, 2005 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

   Azadi by Chaman Nahal

10. von Aurum
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

    * “Crime and Punishment” by Doestovsky
    * “Gabriel’s Wings” by Annemarie Schimmel

11. nykol
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 4:00 pm | Permalink

    100 years of solitude, by gabriel garcia marquez, if you missed that one.
    also, also - for some lighter reading - the pedagogy of the oppressed, by paulo freire
    moviewise? night watch - the russian film. awesome.

12. EMullah
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    The Dancing Girls Of Lahore (Hardcover, 2005)
    Louise Brown, T. Louise Brown

13. Quizman
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 12:37 pm | Permalink

    All your hard earned money on Abida Parveen? *sigh*.

    1. Dilip Kumar -Bunny Reuben
    2. Nehru’s hero - Dilip Kumar, Lord Meghnad Desai
    3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    4. Diana Krall - Live in Paris CD
    5. Cartoon History of the Universe - III Arabia to Renaissance
    6. Funny in Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
    7. Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics DVD

14. sepoy
    Posted July 27, 2005 at 8:46 pm | Permalink

    For the curious, my initial purchase. Thanks for the suggestions!

    -The Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Ancient Pleasure District by Louise Brown
    -501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas R., Jr. Beyer
    -The Loss of Leon Meed : A Novel by Josh Emmons
    -Cakewalk: Adventures with Sugar by Magaret Braun
    -If They Move . . . Kill ‘Em!: The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle
    -London Calling by The Clash
    -Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 2/Viola Concerto by Alfred Schnittke (Composer), et al
    -The Man Who Would Be King : The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre
    -Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur
    -Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    -The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance by Larry Gonick
    -Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins

15. Saurav
    Posted July 30, 2005 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Get a subscription for NYROB and Harpers if you don’t have them already (I assume you do). Also:

    1. Twilight of Equality by Lisa Duggan
    2. Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam by Abdolkarim Soroush
    3. I assume you’ve seen Ritwik Ghatak movies because apparently everyone in the world except me has and…
    4. I like Luna.

16. Anon
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

    Listen to M83 “Lower your eyelids to die with the sun”