The art of happiness
Epicurus and good coffee. Notes are a habititual mode of reading to help me push my thoughts through the pages, but its the pages that are the pleasure.…
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2024 Council for Museum Anthropology Awards
I happily share the following CMA announcement: 2024 COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY AWARDS We’re delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Council for Museum Anthropology aw…
Bad Marxism
Thinking of returning to this problem of time – how everything has got more urgent, but nothing is moving at all – hyper-stagnation. From the reviews of Bad…
what do you think of writing books?
. What do you expect of a book? A book on culture and critical theory would generally assume a certain readership, but an author-writes for what they can…
Saving Time – research theme
The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem).…
Mixed Metaphors in a text
I started to code the mixed metaphors in the first page of Critique of Exotica (because I do this for other texts and it helps understand them) but…
ISSH2024 Conference proceedings
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Sympathising… Hard Place/Rock dialectic TV
So many great lines of parody and insight: “Did anyone ask John F. Kennedy if he … ate potatoes every night”. Excellent soundtrack… I am interested to discuss…
Sumanta Banerjee
Seagull Books congratulates Sumanta Banerjee on being honoured with the Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar Gold Plaque by the Asiatic Society. A distinguished cultural historian and journalist, Suman…
Henrietta Clive
A friend is in India and I am vicariously planning tours that would take more time than anyone has… I recently – well 3 years ago – read…
The Indian Struggle
“The ethnic diversity of India has never been a problem – for tgroughout her history sge has been able to absorb different races and impose on them one…
The Discovery of India
“we are too much under the bondage of slogans” Nehru 1947: 545)
Siraj // Begam Lutf-un-nisã
there are many gems to be found in the life and death of Siraj. The Gardens by his tomb are most peaceful, and here I read and honoured…
My 2023 Reading List
2023 was, iirc, the second year I’ve set the goal of reading a book a week — and this year I managed to do it again! It was…
Arabian Nights: abriged too far (longest-kept trinket-exotica)
The 1821 Galland version of the Thousand and One Nights. “slightly abridged” with eight full colour drawings by Joan Kiddel-Monroe. 1965 reprint, Dent & Sons. …
A Rhinoceros in the Library: Marx’s Sources on India
Read on here: marx-for-chandernagorechicagoDownload
dialectic and teleology
“a methodological issue … to forestall one of the most notorious and inveterate stereotypes of Hegel discussion, namely the thesis-antithesis-synthesis formula. It is certain that there are ple…
Book Burning
Are we living in the greatest ever era of incineration? Add your favourite book burning quotes here. Bradbury’s F◦451, Maugham’s Razors Edge, Umberto Eco’s name of the Rose,…
Footnote
‘The bookbinding trade in the city of London employs very many young girls from 14 to 15 years old, and that under indentures which prescribe certain definite hours…
Book Fetish
A detail from Yasmine Seale’s annotation of pages of Edward Lane’s 1838 translation of 1001 Nights – Sleepless 2022, Mirage 2022, Of the Sea 2022 – seen in…
The Rumour of Calcutta at Foreign Publishers Agency on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. In the window! – after 27 years.
From a time before the city had a five word name (K.F.K.A.C), photogenic proof of the rupee version of Rumour in the window, re-released after 27 years…
Special Issue: Robinson Crusoe
Free to download in 2023. Click the TOC below and download each as a PDF or EPUB from T&R. #robinson #crusoe #Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Don Miller
On Time. My teacher and friend Don Miller passed away last month. We had published his book “Time and Time Again” in 2022. His memorial is on the…
Rodanthi Tzanelli – New Spirit of Hospitality: Designing Tourism Futures in Post-Truth Worlds
Tzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, a…