Sunday, November 12, 2006
This weekend, 3rd I San Francisco is organizing the 2006 Annual South Asian Film Festival.
Yesterday, I watched two films - The Forsaken Land and Omkara - from a truly impressive lineup of films. Later today, I will write more on the films, especially on The Forsaken Land, a brilliant Sri Lankan montage of images and [...]
Friday, November 10, 2006
Okay, there is much to comment on this week’s Congressional Elections. All in Good time.
But we also have to declare open the new Games: the presidential primaries for 2008.
I don’t vote but here is my pick though. Watch this AD and name me one POL who can pull this off.
Bill Richardson for President.
Thursday, November 2, 2006
This can happen only in Mysore. And also the story can appear only in my favorite newspaper, the Star of Mysore. I don’t know when this story would be taken down and so let me reproduce it here.
KSRTC BUS PASSENGERS STRANDED IN FOREST, RECKLESS DRIVERS
Traumatic experiences of the victims of [...]
Thursday, November 2, 2006
1. Herschelle Gibbs‘ attacking batting is of the highest order. His conduct, unfortunately, is not. A confessed match-fixer, he has dodged being interrogated by Delhi Police. But this time, we don’t know what deal was made to reassure him (and his lawyer) but I am quite mad at what he said after being interviewed by [...]
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Fifty years ago, Karnataka (then still known by its old name, Mysore) came into existence. Golden jubilee celebrations began yesterday in Bangalore and allover Karnataka, but a nagging feeling that we probably are clueless about the challenges facing us, Kannadigas, never leaves me. I want to spend the next several weeks and months writing [...]
Thursday, November 2, 2006
After his two superb (and best selling) translations of Iliad (1990) and The Odyssey (1996), Robert Fagles has just published a new translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Paul Friedrich introduced many generations of his students (including me) at the University of Chicago to Fagles’ wonderful translations, which as Fagles himself says aren’t literal or literary. Still, [...]