I'll take the bronze

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Congratulations to Falstaff on winning "Best Humanities Blog" at the IndiBloggies, with 141 votes. Falstaff actually lives in the...

"Samjhauta" Thwarted: Another Senseless, Horrible Bombing

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It's difficult to know what to say sometimes after terrorist attacks like the recent bombing of the Samjhauta Express . 68 innocent peop...

Vote For Me, If You LIke: IndiBloggies

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I've been nominated for "Best Humanities Blog," in the 2006 IndiBloggies. You can vote for me here [UPDATE: Voting has now c...

MTV Desi, RIP

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Back in 2005, I mentioned , with some excitement, the advent of MTV Desi, a channel geared to NRIs and Second Generation South Asian America...

Peter Nicholson on Auden, and against the "Poetic"

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The Auden centenary is coming up , and Peter Nicholson has posted his poem, "Asking Auden," from 1984 at 3 Quarks Daily (seems we...

Alternadad, Parenting in Literary History

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I don't have that much in common with Neal Pollack, except maybe a certain attitude, but I still read about his book Alternadad with gr...

Begum Nawazish Ali Running For Parliament in Pakistan

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So, there was a big article in the New York Times recently (thanks, TechnophobicGeek) about how Indian TV is supposedly entering this golde...

Payless Shoes, Lipton Tea.... and the British Empire

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A connection made through the magic of semiotics. The following is from an interview in n+1 Magazine: A.S. Hamrah [ASH] : But you can...

"Blogger Authenticity" vs. Presidential Campaigning

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Amanda Marcotte left Pandagon to be the head blogger for the John Edwards presidential campaign. But now she's being attacked by right-...

Wizard of the Crow @ LBC

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Ngugi's new novel, Wizard of the Crow , is the winter selection at the Lit Blog Co-op, and they have an interview with Ngugi up. But ev...

Aishwarya Marries Tree(s)--A Setback for Feminism?

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Aishwarya Rai, who has been in the news lately because of her engagement to Abhishek Bachchan, has apparently been ritually married to not o...

Travelers: Ryszard Kapuscinski in The New Yorker

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Last week's New Yorker had an intriguing travel narrative by a Polish journalist named Ryszard Kapuscinski. Kapuscinski went to India ...

"Children of Men," anyone?

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I don't have time to do justice to Children of Men , but both Joseph Kugelmass at The Valve and Mark at K-Punk have written long, exce...

More Vikram Chandra Media Fun

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On News.google.com , if you search for "Mild-mannered Author Delves Deeply Into India's Underworld," you'll get about 25 n...

Postcolonial Journals

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(This post is mainly for the academics in the audience) Following is a short list of "Postcolonial" oriented journals. Now that my...