Here is a scary thought. My students are and will remain mostly digital natives, who fit into the following description:
Our children today are being socialized in a way that is vastly different from their parents. The numbers are overwhelming: over 10,000 hours playing videogames, over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 [...]
Panels and the festivities at the Ronapalooza (especially my lousy paper) wore me out completely. Yesterday, I didn’t have the energy to post my conference notes nor did I feel like writing on Rajkumar’s historical film, Ranadhira Kanthirava. Today seems to be no better but this being a monday - and also a day filled [...]
Ronapalooza, Sepoy’s short hand name for the conference to honor Ronald Inden, begins this afternoon. From the conference site, here is a brief statement on the conference:
This conference to honor the scholarship and mentorship of Ronald B. Inden revolves around some of his central concerns and themes in history and religion of India: imperial formations [...]
Here is an essay Swept away by the wave by Manu Chakravarthy on Rajkumar, originally published in Deep Focus and reprinted in The Hindu today.
Rajendra Chenni seeks to explain the recent Bangalore violence in Were they reclaiming a city in The Hindu.
Also, as Andrew Stevenson says in the Sydney Morning Herald, Jason Gillespie’s incredible double [...]
What is an act of remembering?
Memory is tricky business. It doesn’t have an autonomous existence of its own, outside of us, the people who choose to remember. So memory is not a passive thing, but an active construct and it requires us to act. Our act of remembering is a subjective act and does not [...]
This fall, I plan to teach a course on the ‘Images of everyday life in South Asia’. My summer project is to locate places where the rhythm of such life is evident, where the ordinary manifests itself patently. To capture the poetics of everyday life, I want to take a couple of thousand photographs on [...]