If you’ve tried clicking on any links on any of my sites (my homepage, my wiki, or this blog), you will get a 404 error telling you that the page was not found. That is because I was up late last night migrating my site to its new home at TextDrive where I’ve bought a [...]
After much hard work, the new website for the film is up. Here’s what it looks like: {chharanagar, dnt, film, hooch and hamlet}
I’ve been working on a revision of the Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar web site, and I’m really happy with how it looks. Unfortunately, the code I’m using doesn’t seem to play well with Internet Explorer even though it looks great in Firefox and Safari. I’m hoping that someone out there really understands CSS and [...]
Hurricanes happen in the Atlantic and typhoons happen in the Pacific, it just that simple. {hurricanes, rita, typhoon}
It looks like Rita will spare Houston, but what has happened to all the Katrina refugees who were resettled in Houston? I can’t imagine the trauma of being moved again … {katrina, rita}
If you don’t know who Phil Schaap is, you don’t listen to jazz radio in New York City. But this post isn’t really about Phil Schaap the man, it is about Phil Schaap the type. You know, the person who knows which recording of which album has the sound of Max Roach clearing his throat [...]
It’s been so long since my roundup on race, poverty and Katrina, that a new post is needed. First, some hard numbers on poverty in New Orleans, how it was the sixth poorest city in the country in 2000, how more than half of the poor households didn’t have a car or truck, and how [...]
I just learned via Crooked Timber that one now has to pay $50 a year to gain access to the New York Times Op-Ed page. I’ll occasionally read something from that page if I see it mentioned elsewhere, but for the most part I find them all to be a bunch of blithering idiots, especially [...]
Jonathan Kozol has an important article in the latest issue of Harpers. Although the magazine hasn’t made it available online, you can read it here. In it he dispels the notion that the problems which occasioned Brown v. Board of Education have gone away: Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago [...]
This December, Shashwati and I are going to India to shoot a documentary film about the residents of one city’s slum who are using theatre to fight back against decades of prejudice and police oppression. Help us tell their story. Even though we are paying our own way to India, we need to raise $15,000 [...]