Reading admin on 30 Mar 2011
The match was a tight contest, with India beating Pakistan by 29 runs; India will face Sri Lanka in the final on Saturday in Mumbai. “This is cricket,” said Taiyeabur Rahman, a former professional cricket player in Bangladesh. “You don’t know if you die, you don’t know if you live.” Click here.
Writing admin on 06 Aug 2010
“A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb” carries in the crook of its own arm Mr. Kumar’s plaintive appeal. If we’re to bridge the perilous divide that separates us from those poor and unnamed people who resent us, we first need to see them, to look into their eyes. We [...]
Teaching Amitava on 27 Apr 2009
Mark C. Taylor in today’s New York Times calls for a complete restructuring of the university–I like the idea but am afraid, in fact rather fearful, that there is not a word said about who will educate the administrators: GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a [...]
Reading Amitava on 08 Jan 2009
It always interests me–which story from the New York Times gets e-mailed most frequently. That, for example, Rashid Khalidi’s essential piece “What You Don’t Know About Gaza” should be less popular (at the time of this writing) than this admittedly helpful one about what should be the essential supplies in your kitchen.
