Eric Doeringer In the Voice: Bootlegging it in Chelsea

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The artist Eric Doeringer is in the Village Voice this week after getting busted by the cops for selling his art without a license in Chels...

Quirky American Art Films and Terrible Bollywood Comedies

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We recently signed up for cable in our new apartment, and as one of the incentives, the cable company threw in a bunch of movie channels, in...

Technical Difficulties, and How They Were Resolved

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Recently I've been having some technical difficulties here. For periods of time, I can't post anything, and comments get frozen. (So...

Is This India? (Links potpourri)

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Ah Thanksgiving break. Perfect to take an hour and catch up on some blog-reading, eh? First up, Ms. World has posted some reflections on he...

Travel Writers: India, England, and the U.S.

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I'm teaching the following course in the spring. It's an introductory course, geared at people who are not necessarily English major...

My Grandfather

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My grandfather, Santokh Singh Narang, passed away. He was my maternal grandfather ("Nanaji"), though we called him Daddyji. Like m...

Natural Born Killer: Abu Salem

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(Photo by Aijaz Rahi/Associated Press) Abu Salem, the guy in the yellow shirt above, was recently turned over to the custody of Indian autho...

Hullabaloo at the Berkeley Theater

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A bit of a blog kerfluffle has sprung up around the recent production of Manjula Padmanabhan's play Harvest at the Berkeley theater. I...

Fairy Tales and the Religious Imagination: Adam Gopnik on C.S. Lewis

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I've tried and failed to get into C.S. Lewis's writings on religion. I read Surprised by Joy as a grad student, and a grad student ...

Rushdie on the Flagging Earthquake Relief Effort

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Rushdie has a piece in the November 8 Toronto Star on Pakistan earthquake relief. He makes what I see as a particularly important point abo...

Up From The Comments: Vikash Singh on Tsunami Relief

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Vikash Singh (also see his photos here ) recently left quite a comment in response to a post I did last week on my various speaking gigs o...

The Two Movers and the Savvy Sadhu (a short story)

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It was a spectacularly large head, nice enough to admire, but rather a liability when moving. Able and Cable had been struggling to fit it t...

Are Male Feminists Necessary?

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I have to say, I like Maureen Dowd. She's received such a torrent of criticism in the past two weeks by feminist bloggers and academics ...

An Open Letter to President Bush Concerning The Treatment of Detainees

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Dear Mr. President, I am writing to express my bewilderment at the White House's plans to veto a bill recently passed by the U.S. Senat...

Tsunami and Earthquake: Educational Materials

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Yesterday I was the guest lecturer/moderator in a 1-credit Environmental Science seminar being taught this fall by a colleague at Lehigh. Th...