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

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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

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