Thirty letters in my name

Some notes before you read on: 1. This article is a continuation my post last month The Spanish Among the Pimas: Part 1. On Matters Spiritua...

I Cornonado’s expedition in 1540-1542 through what is now the American southwest had been fruitless for the Spanish. No wealth or riches had...

It was a day in January. I was on the terrace with Virang scouting the skies, when I spotted a bright red kite severed in some duel of threa...

I The Coronado National Memorial commemorates the first organized European exploration of the American Southwest. Francisco Vasquez de Coron...

I Michael Mazgaonkar and his wife Swati work in the villages and hamlets of a district in Gujarat that is close to the Maharashstra border. ...

It was a good year of reading for me. Usually I start a book and then finish it before starting another, but this year I tried reading many ...

Jared Diamond, author of Guns Germs and Steel , is coming to campus on Feb 2, 2006. I am pretty excited. The lecture will be related to his ...

I In the mid 1990s, V.S.Naipaul revisited countries – Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia – he had been to in the late seventies to follo...

I I was in New York this summer. I landed at the JFK airport late in the evening, and was immediately disoriented. It was a hot and humid ev...

I was for a long time under the spell of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. I couldn’t get the narrator Saleem Sinai’s voice out of my head, and...

Writing is sometimes very hard work. I'll use this excuse and the excuse of being busy to present something old, an article I wrote in A...

Columbus Day is quite a difficult day. When I started this post, I tried to make it light and easy, avoid altogether the tragic events – som...

The last time I checked on Amazon, no one had reviewed The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature . But that may be because the book is a ...

When William Hickling Prescott, the historian who documented the rise and fall of the Spanish empire, died in 1859, he could not have known ...

In this collection of essays on Indian history, culture and identity the economist Amartya Sen attempts to illustrate the heterodoxy that ha...

The apartment complex where my parents live flanks the Bangalore-Bellary road that is being widened in preparation for the new international...

Last year, I learnt from a friend of Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs and Steel (GGS), which attempts to answer one of the unfathomable and...

More than a millennium ago, Native American communities – those that are today referred to as the Anasazi or Pueblo – used a geological feat...