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W(e)ary traveler

California notes - 2

Sunday, June 18, 2006

1. Pacific time zone is strange. Everything important happens much before one is ready to receive news of it. How does one watch NBA finals at 5:30?
2. In my book, the quality of dessert cafes is a determinant of how good a neighborhood is. I see my young friend and (born) aesthete of desserts Kavi [...]

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California notes

Sunday, June 18, 2006

1. Zza’s trattoria on Grand Avenue. Sitting by the window, I could look into Lake Merritt and eat my lunch.
Ordering lunch was a liminal moment. No olive oil with the garlic bread. When the waitress brings me an omlette, she brings no butter with the toast. Only jam. Which I suspect is made of organically [...]

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Unfinished

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

There is much to write, for the Land of Lime but also to complete (too) many other ‘long overdue’ writing obligations: book manuscript(s), introductions to edited volumes and most importantly, a paper for the Ron Inden conference. Having spent much of the last two weeks being a ‘weary traveler’, I haven’t met any of my [...]

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Conferencing

Monday, February 20, 2006

Back in a cold Chicago from sunny and warm northern California. Well, it was cold and raining in San Francisco too. Sepoy and I complained about the weather much but soon after landing in Chicago, we realized there is cold weather and then there is cold weather.
As I was busy all of last week, [...]

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In the company of historians

Sunday, January 8, 2006

There is something different to be in the company of historians at AHA, even for those of us who live our lives among historians. Everywhere on the streets of downtown Philadelphia, at the convention center, in cafes, restaurants and hotels, they were conspicous by their sombre mood, unsmiling visage and the burden of carrying the [...]

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On Matters History and Blogging

Saturday, January 7, 2006

In the spirit of the panel on Academic blogging that I attended at the American Historical Association Annual meeting, I must do this posting immediately. How can a historian not take his responsibility to create new myths seriously?
The Round Table entitled Were All the World a Blog: History Bloggers and History Blogging featured a diverse [...]

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