trinketization: Population Malthus (‘The hour of vulgar economy had struck’)
Interested in the beginnings of the East India College at Haileybury and the first Prof of History and Politics… the dodgy Reverend himself Thomas Robert ‘Pop’ Malthus. I need to check again, but from...
View Articletrinketization: Notes to self – South Asian film and TV from here, where, now.
Writing far from the UK, thinking about South Asian film and diaspora from another corner of Asia, and given trends and movements, the angular influences of culture are thrown into sharp relief. How...
View Articletrinketization: The Rumour of Calcutta (1996)
so can anyone type – its nearly 20 years and maybe due a kindle version… it was originally typeset, and on the contract I crossed out the bit giving Zed electronic rights (would not get away with that...
View Articletrinketization: “History of India 1707-1857″ (2010) Lakshmi Subramanian...
I have just finished reading the best book I have yet seen on the historical debates that come out of India for the 18th and 19th centuries. Of course there are more focussed ones, like Ranajit...
View Articletrinketization: Mutate nomine de te fabula narratur!
I may have made the wrong book choice today, depressing read. But strangely ‘Precarious Japan’ reads true of elsewhere more than, or as much as, here. That these tales give ‘an eye-opening view into...
View Articletrinketization: Pantomime Terror – ‘it was a bargain so I bought two’
I dunno when this started happening, but here it is about half price…Filed under: trinketization
View Articletrinketization: the mortality of paraphrase – book scraps left on the cutting...
It has often been noted that war is hell, or ‘heck’ in the old 1970s ‘M*A*S*H’ anti-war comedy version, but the cold war too has its unwelcome replays as austerity today, this time as grotesque rerun...
View Articletrinketization: Big Fight, punchy new book to come… #India #Media #Film...
“TV is now increasingly entertainment. News is entertainment. You have to create some element of entertainment … people shouting at each other … or some kind of conflict. It is not always about...
View Articletrinketization: Shaheed Minar
Already in 1990 you had to get permission from the Chief of Police at Lal Bazaar to climb this monument. A friend, Kate, and I went to see him and he greeted us with an expansive ‘So you want to see a...
View Articletrinketization: Release Delhi University Professor, Dr GN Saibaba from...
Please join the picket at the office of the High Commission of India, Aldwych, London, WC2B 4NA From 1pm on 28th June 2015.(Nearest Tube Station: Halborn and Temple) Dr GN Saibaba, a Professor of...
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