Notes From a Punjabi Literature Conference in Vancouver

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I was recently in cool Vancouver to give a talk at a conference on Modern Punjabi Literature . The conference was at the University of Briti...

Spring -- a photo

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In the next couple of weeks, I'm going to start uploading photos to Flickr again -- after a long pause. (Expect some new photos of the l...

"Satyagraha," by Phillip Glass

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The New York Times has a behind-the-scenes look at a new version of Phillip Glass's modernist opera, "Satyagraha," which is ...

A Book with "@" in the Title

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There's a profile in the New York Times of Chetan Bhagat (thanks, Pocobrat ), author of One Night @ The Call Center , which was release...

Suriname's Linguistic Khichri

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The New York Times has an article on Sranan Tongo , the creole language that is spoken by a majority of people in Suriname , in South Ameri...

Arthur C. Clarke, RIP

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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died earlier this week, at the age of 91. He was one of the best-known sci-fi writers of the 20th c...

Interviewing Partition Survivors

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Via 3QD , I came across an article in the Washington Post about a 10 year research project, based in Delhi but funded by the Ford Foundatio...

A Little on Poet Alan Shapiro (Revised)

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I first learned about Alan Shapiro’s poetry a couple of years ago, when someone suggested I read his book Song & Dance . I loved it, and...

Review: Tahmima Anam's "A Golden Age"

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A friend gave me a copy of A Golden Age , by Tahmima Anam, as a present a couple of months ago, and I finally got around to reading it this ...

Kal Penn @ UPenn

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This past Sunday I went down to the University of Pennsylvania for a rare, open Q&A session with Kal Penn. As readers may remember from ...

'Every Unsavoury Separatist is Gloating': Questions About Kosovo

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Via Crooked Timber (and also 3QD ), there is a learned critique by Pratap Bhanu Mehta in Indian Express, of the recent "engineering...

Desis Vote (And, Tooting My Own Horn)

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SAMAR Magazine has a new issue up on its website on elections -- both within South Asia and here in the U.S. They have essays on the recent...

"Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature"

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There is a new book of general interest literary criticism by John Mullan out, called Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature . It...

A Little on "Rotten English"

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I've had Dora Ahmad's anthology, Rotten English on the shelf for some months, but didn't get around to reading the introduction...

Indian Literature: Translation Stories

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There have been quite a few stories in the past couple of weeks about the issue of translation in Indian literature, most of them stemming, ...