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Now truck drivers

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Is the United States of America turning into Saudi Arabia? Or such middle eastern, oil rich countries where outsiders do all the work, especially the less glamourous stuff!
Read this news story in the Hindu on training truck drivers, who are being recruited to work in the U.S. Hey, if you can make more than entry [...]

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Samsa

Sunday, June 18, 2006

I have been reading Samsa again for a few months now. This Kannada playwright, who wrote six (published) plays on the history of Mysore has been a favorite of mine for long. I read KIRAM’s wonderful play, Nigikonda Samsa recently. Samsa’s nephew A. N. Subramanyam has a very insightful small book called Samsasmarane (Remembering Samsa).
Honestly, [...]

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Hotel Kerala-fonia

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

For your reading pleasure, the new lyric Hotel Kerala-fonia, courtesy Churumuri.

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Ugly side of a beautiful game

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Read the WAPO OPED on the ugly side of soccer worldcup: the importing of women and children to provide commerical sex for visitors.
It is estimated that more than 40,000 women and children will be imported to Germany during the month-long competition to provide commercial sex in the “mega-brothels,” “quickie shacks,” other legalized venues and vast [...]

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The Reservations Conundrum

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

I am part of a new group blog of historians ‘Revise and Dissent‘ at History News and Network.
Although this blog came into existence about ten days, I began posting there from today. I wanted to do a series of entries on the recent Reservations saga both here and at Revise and Dissent but it is [...]

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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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