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Untitled 19 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about Trayvon Martin and why such incidents will continue to occur. ★
Untitled 7 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
Here’s something right about humanity: * and something wrong. via @bandra_girl ★
Untitled 31 Jul 2013 | 08:07 pm
Speaking of Outside, I somehow missed this news about a massacre perpetrated by the Taliban at the base camp of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan on June 22nd. Outside reports about it here. Chilling. “I’m wo...
Untitled 31 Jul 2013 | 12:12 pm
Outside magazine has a piece I finally got around to reading, and would recommend: The Disposable Man: A Western History of Sherpas on Everest. While the title mentions Everest, it is about all mount...
Untitled 2 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
It’s a day, so someone is outraged at something Chetan Bhagat wrote. This time around Chetan Bhagat wrote a Letter From an Indian Muslim Youth. HOW COULD HE SPEAK ON BEHALF OF ALL MUSLIMS?!?! (He did...
Untitled 16 May 2013 | 06:54 am
Nothing is impossible. Except reading this without cracking up even once. Go ahead, try it. ★
Untitled 10 May 2013 | 12:12 pm
There are two little known movies I saw in the recent past: Baraka (1992) and what I consider it’s updated version as opposed to a sequel, Samsara (2011). I didn’t think I was skilled enough to descri...
Untitled 8 May 2013 | 11:14 am
Some folks have made this wonderful video using an audio recording of David Foster Wallace’s now famous commencement speech This Is Water: Feel free to check out the entire speech. *** Not long ago,...
Untitled 7 May 2013 | 07:16 am
My good friend Aditya Khanna* who blogs anonymously as Overrated Outcast hits it out of the park in this week’s column: Do we really want to join the superpower sorority? Think again. When someone say...
Untitled 29 Apr 2013 | 11:05 am
Lift the index finger of your right hand in front of you. Note the point where the tip of your finger meets space. By the time you read this, you are already about a thousand kilometers away from that...
