The Khan Academy
This Salman Khan deserves to be called a hero. Terrific educational videos. (Via Prashant.)
By Amit Varma in Science and technology •
Sow No Panic
Elisabeth Rosenthal has some good Swine-Flu advice. (Via Griff.)
By Amit Varma in Miscellaneous •
The Postman Joins Gatsby
Check out Norman Mailer’s ten favourite American novels.
By Amit Varma in Arts and entertainment •
Chop Chop Square
Adam St. Patrick goes to a routine beheading. (Via Arun.)
By Amit Varma in Miscellaneous •
Attach bacon to your hard-drive
And other ways to use BACON to make your life incredible and amazing
By Sanjeev Naik in The good life •
Mutton Glutton
NYT Article: How I Learned to Love Goat Meat
By Sanjeev Naik in The good life •
John Waters’ home and..
.. his collection of “vintage knick-knacks, fab furnishings, collectible art, one-of-a-kind porn, and plastic food” and LOTS of books!
By Sanjeev Naik in Blogs • The good life •
Writers who never “shed their leaves”
Dick Cavett talks to Cheever & Updike - Oct 14, 1981. (Earlier post.)
By Sanjeev Naik in Arts and entertainment •
‘A Nuclear-Armed Afghanistan’
That’s what Pakistan can become, warns Patrick French. (Via Nikhil Mehra.)
By Amit Varma in Politics •
Bibliomania
Orhan Pamuk on his ”Turkish Library” and “buying books, as if to take revenge on the life I was fleeing.”
By Sanjeev Naik in Arts and entertainment •
Contact India Uncut
The Bombzooka Question
I have three hypothetical questions for you guys. Humour me and try and read all the way through. One.…A Tale of Two Cities
I was on a CNN-IBN show earlier this evening, where the topic under discussion was the arrest of two…
This Video Hurts the Sentiments of Hindu’s [sic] Across the World
Sita Sings the Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told
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The Hard Edges of Modern Lives
Dev.D doesn't flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?
