Announcements
Anticipation
I’m off …
Tune in next week for the big news!
(Hint.)
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Upgrading…
I’m in the middle of upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1. This has created all kinds of additional work with plugins and the like, so please hold on till everything is back to normal!
UPDATE: Seems to be working OK.
Some plugins are disabled for now, like the “recent comments” which used to appear in the sidebar. As soon […]
TF still guest blogging!
I haven’t thanked TF for his wonderful guest blogging while I was in India, because I’ve asked him to continue guest blogging over the next month, as I have some activities which will keep me otherwise occupied. (More on those when the time comes.)
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4 Meme
I’ve never been tagged for one of these blogger memes before, but now that M E-L’s tagged me I have no choice but to join the borg:
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Masala
ABCDLady has a nice profile of Shashwati:
For the future, Talukdar hopes to turn a screenplay she just finished into a film. Double Vision is a sci-fi thriller with a South Asian American female as the main character. “I’d love to make it,” she says, “You never really see South Asian American women in action films.” […]
Debut
Guest post by tf
At the risk of turning my first blog posting into a fraternal lovefest, I must take exception with one aspect of my brother’s characterization of me. I may be his older brother, but I can hardly claim to be his smarter brother. Indeed, I wish that I had a mastery of the […]
My Mycroft
Just as Sherlock Holmes had his smarter brother Mycroft, I have a smarter big brother as well: TF. Although not lazy and fat like Mycroft, he has so far been as reclusive. All that is about to change… Starting tomorrow, TF will be guest blogging here at Keywords.
TF lives in Paris, loves architecture, Edward Tufte, […]
Passbook
Writer Dilip D’Souza, a long time advocate of India’s Denotified Tribes, or DNTs, has a moving post promoting our film. He draws from his book, Branded By Law:
Passbook entries
There is an interesting sequence of entries in a bank passbook I once saw in Purulia District, West Bengal. Shyamoli Sabar, a young woman from the hamlet […]
Equanimity
Tehelka reporter Sonia Faleiro has written a wonderful story about Chharanagar, which she’s posted up on her blog, along with some pictures she took when she was there. (She used one of my pictures for the print edition!)
The community’s children accept this police presence in their lives with equanimity. Says 13-year-old Haresh Macherekar, “Our parents […]
Kurt Engfehr
We are very pleased to announce that Kurt Engfehr has agreed to be an advisor on the film. Kurt was co-producer and editor on both Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 911. Not only did those two films win an Oscar and a Golden Palm, but Kurt’s editing work on Columbine also earned him the American […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
