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Digital Humanities

For an Encyclopedia of India?

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Also posted at HNN/REVISE AND DISSENT:
At Powells bookstore in Chicago, I saw a new Encyclopedia of India edited by eminient South Asian historian Stanley Wolpert. It’s an impressive four volume work, with 580 essays on the history, culture, economy and politics of the Indian subcontinent. Over two hundred scholars have contributed to this international projects.
Despite [...]

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Books going music way?

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

NYTimes has a story on digital publishing by Motoko Rich. What do we need to remember, as ‘the times, they are a changing’?
In the context of history, the changes that today’s technology will impose on literary society may not be as earth-shattering as some may think. In fact, books themselves are a relatively new [...]

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Read this again

Monday, May 22, 2006

A poem is meant to be recited.
A play is supposed to be performed.
Only a novel is read in solitude. But then novel is a product of print culture.
Now as we come to terms with the digitization of our cultural practices and everyday life that is happening at such a rapid pace, let us imagine how [...]

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For Historians and Humanists

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Read Sepoy’s The Polyglot Manifesto - 1 and The Polyglot Manifesto - 2 for his insightful reflections on the challenges we face today in the academy. Any young (or even old) historian or humanities scholar should take Sepoy’s proposals seriously.

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Humanities today

Monday, May 15, 2006

A few weeks ago, I noted here about the the ‘Fate of Disciplines‘, organized by the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Spring quarter at the University of Chicago is usually the time for conferences and this was perhaps the biggest and most important event (at least for those of us in Humanities) of the year. [...]

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Kannada blogs and podcasts

Monday, May 15, 2006

Of course, Sanjevani has been podcasting for a while. That’s no surprise, given its history as perhaps the most responsive and innovative of all the Indian newspapers (yes, both English and Indian languages included) to technology. News coverage, though, is another matter.
But tonight, while visiting Sampada after some time, I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]

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