Comments on: SA Academic Bloggers Untie!

By: Omar Khan

Omar Khan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:17:11 +0000

A new blog on Raj photography http://www.photoraj.com includes everything from blogs, exhibitions, collections, books, articles and much more related to the subject of early photography in South Asia.

By: Noompa

Noompa — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:53:24 +0000

I started blogging earlier this summer- while not always on South Asia, there are broader South Asian tropes underlying everything (cricket especially!) Incidentally, for those interested in figuring out how the goofy American economy is working (or not) post-financial meltdown, this is a great blog:

http://baselinescenario.com/

Cheers Manan!

By: vivek

vivek — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:10:47 +0000

hmph. I will knot abide by this treatment.

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:14:52 +0000

Thanks for the shout re: Mircae, great blog there…

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:32:23 +0000

ok dude, but I am going to insist on claiming Szerelem for the Turkish studies blogosphere too (South Asian though she may be) because we are sorely outnumbered by y’all, and have to sit at the non-Arabist kids’ table at MESA. We need her.

On a more serious note, I’ve noticed an uptick in the numbers of desi folks (of various citizenships) in Middle Eastern studies programs, though the vast majority are working on Arab (and sometimes Iranian/Persian) topics; very few in the Ottoman/Turkish studies ghetto. I’m hoping this bodes well for scholarship thinking across & breaking down area studies lines, as well as just some fresh perspectives. You’ve heard me on the Turkey/Pakistan military politics thing before (who’s going to write that book, seriously?) and some interesting comparative work on secularisms is afoot, too.

also, Nostalgic’s link is some shiny internet gold.

By: sepoy

sepoy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:01:45 +0000

It is as if one can pour a nice port, and read those 643 comments sip by sip for days on end. An early fav: “Also please note I am a bachelor and if you have any phone number or email IDs of your other sisters who are similar to Aishwarya rai please let me know. I can marry her and prevent the evil upper caste people from enjoying our women. Jai Bhim”

vivek: loosen up, dude.

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:48:22 +0000

Nostalgic: some of the comments to that post are hilarious!

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:04:22 +0000

If the title is punny, I’m afraid I don’t get it.

By: Nostalgic

Nostalgic — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:00:59 +0000

Completely off-topic, I went over to Mircae’s blog… it is very well-written, but while going through the comments on one of his posts, I came across the following, ah, gem:

http://dalitnation.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/aishwarya-rai-a-victim-of-brahmin-conspiracy/

Just goes to show that we Pakistanis have some stiff competition when it comes to conspiracy theories!