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found while googling the words ‘sachin tendulkar unabashed...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:17:54 -0500

found while googling the words ‘sachin tendulkar unabashed sentimentality.’

i think he’d have made a pretty good nepali ultimate...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:33:51 -0500

i think he’d have made a pretty good nepali ultimate frisbee player if he put his mind to it, too. just saying.

nevver: dance ad

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:25:05 -0500

nevver:

dance ad

“his life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world. when he goes out to bat, it’s beyond chaos—it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man.”

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:10:00 -0500

“his life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world. when he goes out to bat, it’s beyond chaos—it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man.”:

twenty years of sachin tendulkar.

* weeps, overwhelmed *

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:33:51 -0500

* weeps, overwhelmed *:

how many tears have we wept over innings after legendary innings of yours, sachin?

nevver: peugeot

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:06:03 -0500

nevver:

peugeot

(via ac-milan) * pinches bridge of nose, tips head back *

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:42:11 -0500

(via ac-milan)

* pinches bridge of nose, tips head back *

THIS IS A VERY SHORT TUMBLR POST

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:36:40 -0500

no place. fsi in mumbai is too high.

water/front: how cities shape and are shaped by their...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:17:47 -0500

water/front: how cities shape and are shaped by their waterfronts. mentions the mathur/da cunha ‘soak’ project for mumbai which is totally pie-in-the-sky at this moment but also really quite a fantastic idea. must read.

how to speak indian if all you knew of india were hindi movies

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:13:26 -0500

how to speak indian if all you knew of india were hindi movies:

not recommended for people without firm grounding in bollywood.

Derek Walcott, “A Far Cry From Africa”

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:52:52 -0500

curate:

A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.
Corpses are scattered through a paradise.
Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries:
“Waste no compassion on these separate dead!”
Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?

Threshed out by beaters, the long rushes break
In a white dust of ibises whose cries
Have wheeled since civilizations dawn
From the parched river or beast-teeming plain.
The violence of beast on beast is read
As natural law, but upright man
Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
Delirious as these worried beasts, his wars
Dance to the tightened carcass of a drum,
While he calls courage still that native dread
Of the white peace contracted by the dead.

Again brutish necessity wipes its hands
Upon the napkin of a dirty cause, again
A waste of our compassion, as with Spain,
The gorilla wrestles with the superman.
I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?

igather: mohamedn

karan thapar takes lalit modi's case

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:23:56 -0500

karan thapar takes lalit modi's case:

for once in an interview he comes across as the MORE LIKEABLE GUY.

johann hari feels patronising compassion for ayn rand!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:16:12 -0500

johann hari feels patronising compassion for ayn rand!:

ilu johann, but you’re writing for a lame website and that makes this piece lame by association. but you never fall below a given value of good, so i recommend this piece to anyone interested in why rand works for some people.

does crowdsourcing devalue designers' work?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:47:56 -0500

does crowdsourcing devalue designers' work?:

because apparently twitter paid six dollars for the birdie graphic when they started out. i wonder how much the failwhale cost.

speech hate #5

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:44:47 -0500

similes in fiction. hate them.

the fertility rate of half the world is now 2.1 or less—the magic number that is consistent with a stable population and is usually called “the replacement rate of fertility”.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:11:52 -0500

the fertility rate of half the world is now 2.1 or less—the magic number that is consistent with a stable population and is usually called “the replacement rate of fertility”.:

“fertility is falling and families are shrinking in places— such as brazil, indonesia, and even parts of india—that people think of as teeming with children.”

haha, i love the economist’s spiel about being a totally agenda-free magazine. because that’s what “people” want, right, the sort of “people” who can only imagine what parts of the world filled with crawling masses of brown babies are like? anyway, report is pretty interesting.

nevver: “was it good for you?”

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:37:38 -0500

nevver:

“was it good for you?”

that's completely unsurprising and completely fucking shocking all at once

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:36:28 -0500

that's completely unsurprising and completely fucking shocking all at once:

wtf is this victorian london?

daaaamn, gideon levy!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:37:43 -0500

daaaamn, gideon levy!:

is ha’aretz really ballsy or am i missing something here?

slate tries to be hard once again; fails miserably yet again

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:55:00 -0500

slate tries to be hard once again; fails miserably yet again:

are we supposed to be impressed by this study and its findings - which we are learning about third-hand at best through this essay? arendt has always had extremely virulent and passionate critics who have described her as a self-hating jew. a couple of them may even have actually bothered to read her work, i’m sure.

her reportage has always been questioned and studied, and that in itself is a good thing. but the arguments for and against the ‘banality of evil’ in no way implicate arendt’s own thinking, since the phrase doesn’t even appear in eichmann except at the very end, in an evidently hastily-written conclusion. but i’m troubled by the rant against it that rosenbaum attempts in this piece nonetheless. weak; very weak. go read amos elon.