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A busy news week

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

This is a busy news week, what with Bush in South Asia and pundits holding fort on that great annual ritual, Budget, to which two sections of Indians looked forward to eagerly: Industrialists, who were seeking more sops from the Finance Minister and middle class Indians, who anxiously awaited income tax relief with elaborate [...]

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History updates

Monday, February 27, 2006

Two brief updates:
First, watch this BBC slideshow/photoessay with commentary on the Mahamastakabhisheka at Sravanabelagola. My earlier posting on this theme has more details on the events and history of the place, including that cool virtual abhisheka.
Second, in response to a spirited debate on Carnatic music (see my review of Sandhyaraga) several weeks [...]

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Archiving - 2

Sunday, February 26, 2006

My two entries earlier this week focused on conferences and archives. Before I move on to more interesting themes like the much postponed series of postings on Hariscandra, I wanted to add a set of comments on both those themes.
Last week, Naim saab suggested that my first question in my earlier posting on Archiving wasn’t [...]

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Archiving Truth

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

How is (historical) truth to be archived?
Scott Shane reports in The New York Times on a seven year old secret program at the National Archives, as part of which Intelligence Agencies have been reclassifying thousands of publicly available documents and removing them from public access. Also see this note edited by historian Mathew M. [...]

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Conferencing

Monday, February 20, 2006

Back in a cold Chicago from sunny and warm northern California. Well, it was cold and raining in San Francisco too. Sepoy and I complained about the weather much but soon after landing in Chicago, we realized there is cold weather and then there is cold weather.
As I was busy all of last week, [...]

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Recording wrestling

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

First, enjoy these award winning wonderful photographs by Tomasz Gudzowaty and Judit Berekal. They were taken at the Gopalaswamisvara Garadi (wrestling ring) in Naalabeedhi, Sunnadakeri, Mysore.

Now seriously, I have spent my entire life in and around universities, hanging out with writers and thinkers. In all these years, I have never come across [...]

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