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A Ditty for Bush

Pakistani administrators recently inserted a poem titled "The Leader", praising George W. Bush, in the English-language course book for 16-year-olds. The poem spells out President George W. Bush: Patient and steady with all he must bear, Ready to meet every challenge with care, Easy in manner, yet solid

End of Information Hierarchy

Today, people have a variety of ways to explore a collection via the Internet as opposed to carefully orchestrated explorations in a brick and mortar museum with a curated exhibition. A curator comes up with a story along with other contextual information about the exhibit and arranges the exhibition so

War and Sex

War is deadly for both sexes. A missile doesn’t differentiate between a man and a woman. Then, what is the role of gender in war? Nearly all active militaries in the world have substantially more male soldiers than female soldiers, and far more men die on the battlefields than

Merchants of Art

“Shakespeare Wallah” was my introduction to the magic of Merchant Ivory Productions. An elegy to a lost era, a bitter-sweet tale of a traveling English theatre troupe in India right after the Indian independence, it is still vivid in my memory. The debonair Shashi Kapoor and Satyajit Ray’s beautiful