Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy... Jedimaster

Sunday, November 26, 2006




狼图腾

Friday, November 24, 2006

Getting Rich - Pankaj Mishra reports from Shanghai

‘Alternative modernity’ and ‘institutional innovation’ may also sound like mere slogans. The New Left belongs, after all, to a very small and powerless minority of intellectuals. But its growing appeal suggests that the post-Mao reversals of ideology and politics – based on a simple moral opposition between socialism and capitalism, the free market and the state, private and public property – are beginning to lose their force as the storm of progress blowing through China continues to scatter debris everywhere.
Is this what the final frontier has become? A golf course?

It is a troubling symbol of humanity's aspiration: the latest installment in our great space quest saw an astronaut tee off

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Dégringolade
Union Sucrée

The first article I read about the decline of France. The scholarship of which, and many more self critiques made me believe that there is still hope for France in the future. If it wasn't for the alacrity with which these authors continue to seize the problems at hand, I would have given up on French long ago.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

I offer something more with these thoughts, which only you will notice. Do you remember that moment by the banks of the Ganga? That silent dark? Those wanderings in imagined worlds? Those deep discussions in low, serious voices? The two of us sitting silently, saying nothing? That breeze at sunrise, that evening shadow! And, once, those rain-bearing clouds, Sravan’s downpour, the songs of Vidyapati? . . . I have concealed a handful of contentment and grief in these thoughts; open these pages once in a while and look upon them with affection, no one but you will be able to see what’s in them! The message inscribed into these words is – there’s one writing that you and I shall read. And there’s another writing for everyone else.


Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore

Saturday, November 11, 2006

The prophecy of Saro-Wiwa

11 years after the Ogoni leader's brutal hanging, violence is erupting in the Niger delta region