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Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows | sotosay
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Seeing the said, Saying the seen. Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows. October 30, 2014. There is a scene where Tony Stark, imprisoned by an Afghan warlord, asks his Afghan cell-mate, Yensen, how many languages he knows. Yensen replies by saying that in that place where Afghani, Russian, Urdu, Persian, Pushtu, etc are spoken, one has got to be a polyglot. I find such polyglots, more accurately polyglot scenes, very charming. It is for this reason that. Image from cafeletrario.blogspot.com. All in all, Shamsie...
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Kamalakar | sotosay
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Seeing the said, Saying the seen. Teach literature at a college in Maharahtra, India. Culture talk and Political polemics keep me high. K Sharifa’s Poems. May 18, 2016. K Sharifa : K Sharifa was born in Gulbarga in Karnataka and works as a Senior Auditor in Bangalore. A poet, a literary critic and a feminist writer, she has been a part of women’s and human rights movements. She has more than seventeen books and has received several awards for her works. Poems of K Sharifa. Kannada original: K Sharifa.
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Some Thoughts on Reading Robert Ludlum’s The Paris Option | sotosay
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Seeing the said, Saying the seen. Some Thoughts on Reading Robert Ludlum’s The Paris Option. December 8, 2014. When I am reading Robert Ludlum’s novel, I do not allow myself too much space for noticing all of the author’s tricks. For example, in the course of reading this novel,. Of course, reading some other kind of novel reverses this process and leads me to associate ‘thinking’ with ‘fun’. And tagged Fun of reading. View all posts by Kamalakar ». One response ». April 8, 2016 at 11:32 pm. Samalkot Mun...
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The Daily Salty: National Adjunct Walkout Day: Should We Feel Sorry for Adjuncts?
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Wednesday, May 20. National Adjunct Walkout Day: Should We Feel Sorry for Adjuncts? And yes people pile into doing a PhD without thinking through the implications. If you do a PhD from a good school and in a good area then you're good. But think about it. I'm embarking on a history PhD. If I'm lucky I'll g...Caveat: Unive...
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The Daily Salty: The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Wednesday, May 20. The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body. The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body. Top image: Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin. Why have people practiced self-mummification? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Here is a logophiliac hug for you! The b...
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The Daily Salty: 10 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Friday, May 15. Book Review: Into the unknown – The Logistics preparation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Gentlemen, the officer who doesn't know his communications and supply as well as his tactics is totally useless.". Gen George S. Patton, USA. ADM Hyman Rickover, USN. Forget logistics, you lose.". Because of my war...
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The Daily Salty: 28 June 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Monday, June 29. The women suffer silently. They don't have a channel to express their grief. Nor does the society care. For them they are a reminder of their fragility and weakness and honour. And now, 44 years later, they are dying off. Without their stories being told. Anyway. I came out and went for a walk along t...
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The Daily Salty: 17 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Thursday, May 21. The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (3): storage and preservation. As I've mentioned to you earlier kids, we have three old old manuscripts. Not exactly a full library which will need retrieval eh? But here we hark back to an older age where we have Palm leaf manuscripts. How do you store them? In my two...
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The Daily Salty: 31 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Tuesday, June 2. The benefits of less space. You must have heard about the quote, "work expands to fill the time available"? I don't think so. Till then, see me live out of a suitcase :). By the way, you look really handsome without the braces. You are looking like a man and a handsome man at that. I feel so happy...One o...
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The Daily Salty: 03 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Wednesday, May 6. Why bankers are intellectually naked. And you know what? Life goes on and banking goes on. Saving.) (Saving.) Why bankers are intellectually naked -. Http:/ www.ft.com/cms/s/2/39c38b74-715d-11e2-9b5c-00144feab49a.html#axzz2NsN8o3gj. Why bankers are intellectually naked -. Why might even so tiny an increa...