Friday, February 29, 2008
In Churumuri, Gauri Lankesh holds a mirror to contemporary Karnataka: How Karnataka is becoming Gujarat. While majority of the comments have been what I can only term as moronic, I wanted to highlight the three real dangers that Gauri points out.
First, suspecting all Muslims as terrorists and presuming/declaring their guilt even before it is established. [...]
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, [...]
Here are some interesting science book recommendations for children.
I picked up Amartya Sen’s new book Identity and Violence a few days ago and it looks quite interesting. I hope to review it later this week. Allen Lane reviews it in the Prospect magazine.
Jhumpa Lahiri writes on the Malgudi Days in the Boston Review. Please do [...]
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Joseph Frank, that heroic Dostoevsky Chronicler, reviews in the New Republic a recently published volume of Albert Camu’s artciles written between 1944-47. As he says:
They provide the English reader with a rewarding immersion in a little-known part of Camus’s work as he was blossoming into a writer of world fame, and also in the social [...]
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Guardian’s football correspondents have compiled a nice set of best and wurst of this World Cup. Happy reading and enjoy the finals.
May the best team (France?) win!
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Pankaj Mishra has an OPED in the NYT on The Myth of New India. Do read it and then wonder about all that we choose to believe. As Foreign Affairs chronicles the Rise of India in a special section in its latest issue, also notice what appeals to folks in a brave new world:
Once proudly [...]
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