Amardeep Singh

"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison

Four Talks in Three Days: North Carolina, New Hampshire

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This was a busy week for me, as I did four talks in three days, over the course of visits to two different campuses, Catawba College and St....

The Namesake

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When you have a five-month old at home, you watch most of your films on DVD. This weekend, though, we were able to arrange in-family babysit...

"The Cow" -- a Sufi Joke

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I came across the following in Idries Shah’s Wisdom of the Idiots (Octagon Press, 1970). Idries Shah is an Afghan writer who emigrated to E...

Two Passages Briefly Compared: "Ulysses" and "To the Lighthouse"

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This spring I'm teaching a course on Modernism, and I have many things I've been hoping to post about. One topic we discussed might ...

What did Guru Nanak look like? Textbooks in California

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In California, the Times reports that the School Board unanimously voted last week to alter a seventh grade textbook image relating to Gur...

Magic Realism on TV: "Heroes" vs. "Midnight's Children"

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Am I the first person to think of shows like Lost and Heroes as the television equivalent of "magic realism" in the novel? Thes...

Problems with Google Docs

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You may be wondering where I've been. I've been working on some essays, most recently on E.M. Forster. That's about done, but no...

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...
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