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An Open Letter About the Events in Texas 12 Jul 2013 | 05:34 pm
An Open Letter About the Events in Texas: The nation stands at the edge of a historic reversal. Hard won gains of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s are about to be turned back with d...
How the Papal example cannot save the University of Texas 31 Jan 2013 | 01:55 am
In the name of the Father … I mean efficiency The narrative presented by President Powers, “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” sounds too good to be true, in large part because it is. It is premised ...
The nights are real, the days, lies 1 Jan 2013 | 03:16 am
The nights are real, the days, lies John Eliya Scratch out my eyes if you will, I’ll never let go of my dreams Neither their comforts nor their tortures will drive me to break my promises New vistas d...
The Spider’s Proverb 25 Dec 2012 | 03:36 am
An attempt at a translation … مقولہ عنکبوت جون ایلیا میں پیا پے جو موجود ہوں صرف موجود ہوں صرف موجود ہونے کی حالت میں ہونے کو جو حوصلہ چاہیے وہ خدایا خدا میں بھی شاید نہ ہو :عنکبوت رواق کہن کامرے یہ ...
AuthentiCity and AlieNation — a review of Zadie Smith’s NW 4 Dec 2012 | 02:57 pm
In a controversial essay penned in 2008, Zadie Smith campaigned for a shift in the way that we understand and read novels. Her New York Review of Books essay, “Two Paths for the Novel,” took the domi...
The Ghosts of Dumbledore 12 Oct 2012 | 11:57 pm
Casual Vacancy JK Rowlings Little, Brown & Co., 2012 512pp. The best thing that JK Rowling’s new novel, Casual Vacancy, has going for it is the success of the author’s Harry Potter franchise. Having c...
Vijay Prashad’s Uncle Swami, a review 27 Sep 2012 | 10:04 pm
Vijay Prashad, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today New Press, 2012 That south Asians in the US face Islamophobia and racism was made clear on August 5th of this year when Wade Michael Page, a w...
New Red Indian in Deutsche Welle on Zardari’s speech to the UN 26 Sep 2012 | 07:16 pm
Asif Ali Zardari has denounced an anti-Islam film in his address to the UN General Assembly and called for an international ban on it. Analysts say that the Pakistani president’s demand is hypocritica...
University of Insecurity 19 Sep 2012 | 12:20 am
The bomb threats that were delivered to five American universities (UT Austin, North Dakota State, Valparaiso, Lousiana State, and UT Brownsville) in the last five days should be an occasion to consid...
City of Irreverents 3 Aug 2012 | 10:53 am
Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis Penguin Press, 2012, 304 pp. It’s difficult not to like Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis, not the least because the novel irreverently does what few in Maharashtra (or in India) are a...
