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Podcasts for 2023 -- a running thread: [For a similar thread on 2021 and 2020 -- see 👇: https://t.co/z25D5ATrLr
Village Corse, S. H. Raza, 1957; Muśee ethnographique due Genėve, Genėve https://t.co/u5cyxBbkhe
Received a wonderful gift from E. P. Unny--a quiet but luminous presence in Indian political cartooning thanks to his long years of commitment to minimalism, wit, & thought--this i...
Around 2:45 hours of some extraordinary, some rare music from masters long forgotten and few immortal ones—from north to south India , recorded some time in early 1950s. https://t...
In case anybody is interested, the history of gardens in ancient & the first millennia is more complex -- ranging from active gardening technique to theological implications to vis...
"Jaspers [is] hard to categorise & why he isnt widely read/known. His philosophy is for the individual,& presentation of the individual reaching ever-hopefully towards an unknowabl...
An extraordinary Mayan sculpture that I saw recently. From the Usumacinta River region, Guatemala or Mexico, 7th-9th century, Limestone | from the Museo Amparo Collection, Puebla,...
For 2023, a new thread of sentences. 1. “I walked past the brothel as if past the house of a beloved.” — The Diaries of Franz Kafka, translated by Ross Benjamin #KafkaDiaries h...
On subsidence in #Joshimath — "mass evacuation is the need of the hour." https://t.co/CawJDlqqqn
1919 -- The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors (with the first Indian, General Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh [standing], to sign an international document) -- Sir William Orpen htt...
A thread of Indian paintings, from 1900 to 2022, arranged according to year of creation. One painting per year. Many works & artists missing. 🙏 My hope was to *see* the changes i...
James Joyce's letter on, among other things, how 'Ulysses' came into the world. "My friend Ezra Pound and good luck" along with the courage of Sylvia Beach of 'Shakespeare and Co.,...