Saturday, December 9, 2006
From the many reviews that I looked at, Roger Osborne’s new book Civilization: A New History of the Western World
seems to be a necessary reading.
Here are the links to reviews in New York Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph.
Some relevant paragraphs from these reviews.
Tim Gardam writes in The Guardian:
Osborne argues that we inherit [...]
Sunday, November 26, 2006
From Iraq to Oakland, this thanksgiving has been a particularly violent one. Instead of reading depressing newspaper stories, here are a few paragraphs from Wendell Berry’s A Place on Earth. As in his other novels, Berry offers a vision of how individuals can live in community and what I quote here articulates that vision [...]
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 [...]
We count the hovering Helicopters. Five. Six. There is the seventh. All cast their watchful eye, trying to count the sea of humanity in the streets below in downtown Chicago. Illegal aliens have come out. Some of their legal friends too. All have chosen not to work on May 1st, to demonstrate their contribution to [...]
All the recent food related entries in Churumuri, especially the Thair vade and even churumuri, have compelled me to admit my true obsession, food and real passion, cooking. Sepoy has been insistent on tasting churumuri, but kadlepuri (puffed rice isn’t a good translation) is available only on that unique Chicago institution, Devon Avenue, also known [...]
I learnt from Shankar this morning that the Times of India published an edited version of the following on Saturday, March 4th under the title ‘Lessons from Gandhi’. The link is to the epaper, since the OPED sections haven’t been updated for a while by the TOI; but accessing the epaper is a cumbersome [...]
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