Next Generations
Two great opportunities for students from South Asia to pursue graduate education in NY. It is wonderful, and a testimony to the work of the scholars and administrators behind these initiatives, that even in these economic downturns we have these possibilities. At Columbia: Applications are sought for the Ambedkar Sanskrit Fellowship at Columbia University in the City of New York. This is a five-year award covering tuition and stipend. One fellowship will be awarded for the academic year 2010-11 (deadline for application to the Department of Middle East, South Asia, and African Studies is January 4, 2010), and, it is anticipated, two more in each of the f

Start A War
I have a new piece up at The Review, Start A War. We expected something, something better than before. We expected something more.

Groß Chapati
I saw/ate a version of this (often called ‘paasti’) in Mianwali but here is how it plays in Bannu (next to Waziristan). The retail version is usually sold as “Afghan bread” – at least in Chicago. [via Nosheen]

On the disappointingness of great men
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Udham Singh
Yasmin Khan, whose Great Partition is highly recommended, has an excerpt up on Random House India site*, The Ghost of Udham Singh: But the story of his life poses interesting challenges for the historian interested in ‘facts’ – for the stories about Singh are fragmented and seem sometimes only to take sustenance from their repetition. Some say he fraternised with members of the Ghadar party – the ambitious revolutionary movement started in North America which struggled for India’s liberation from British imperialism during the First World War –