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W(e)ary traveler

‘Terror’ visits Bangalore

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

A hectic travel schedule, speaking engagements and computer trouble have created a backlog, which I hope to make up in the next few days. I must begin, though, with the indiscriminate firing at the Indian Institute of Science. Eye witness accounts have varied but one or more assailants threw a grenage and opened fire [...]

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Indic Studies Conference

Thursday, December 22, 2005

A long overdue (and an insubstantial) report on the Indic studies conference, (more formally known as the Second International Conference on Religions and Cultures in the Indic Civilization) which concluded on Tuesday.
It was less chaotic but also less spirited than the previous conference, held in December, 2003. Then IAHR had also co-organized the event, [...]

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Random notes on (and from) Delhi:

Friday, December 16, 2005

Before we begin, read this on the trial of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.
Also, please pay attention to this Frontline story on Michael Aram workers struggle. I will write on my own interactions with our worker friends in Delhi early next week.
I will also be reporting regularly from the Second Indic Studies conference, [...]

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14 1/2 things to do on a 14 1/2 hour flight

Thursday, December 8, 2005

14.5 Sleep.
Note to self: try anyway.
14. Think (forever): O, thinking man, no theme, no reason (except this long flight) necessary. Nor is a note to self or anyone else.
13. Develop: a taste for Joey and Two and a Half Men.
Note to self: recent vintage Sitcoms suck. How could you laugh at such inane, superficial [...]

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