Category Archives: India
The Global North: Alexander, Boo, Erdrich, Ferry
February 13, 2013 The blizzard this past weekend made me think of Argus, North Dakota. Louise Erdrich’s country. Love Medicine opens with a blizzard: “The snow feel deeper that Easter than it had for forty years, but June walked over … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Comparative literature, Contemporary novel, contemporary poetry, India, Native-American literature, Translation
Tagged Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, Boston, David Ferry, Global North, Goblin Secrets, Katherine Boo, KIng's College London, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Minneapolis, Mumbai, National Book Award, North Dakota, Sunil Khilnani, The Beet Queen, William Alexander
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Shankar, Coltrane, Whitman: Within You, Without You
December 12, 2012 2012 is full of deaths at the year’s end. Dave Brubeck last week; this week, Ravi Shankar. Shankar was half an American musician (the fractions don’t have to add up to a zero-sum game). Since 1970 he … Continue reading
Posted in Afro-Asian alliances, Asia, Cities, collaboration, Diaspora, Educational institutions, Ethnicity, Global South, India, jazz, Music, Nineteenth-century literature, Poetry, public universities
Tagged Beatles, California Institute for the Arts, Don Juan, Encinitas, Faust, George Harrison, Gounod, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John Coltrane, Mozart, Mtislav Rostropovich, Norwegian Woods, Philip Glass, Proud Music of the Storm, Ravi Shankar, Rossini, San Diego, Walt Whitman, William Tell
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