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...meetings, and the scenes of Austerlitz’s story, often take place at twilight, or to use Sebald’s favourite phrase, in “the gathering dusk.” We are reminded of Henry James’s preference for that time in the day when shadows begin to lengthen—what he called “the divine dusk.” But while for James this atmosphere was one in which history glimmered, offering up its inspiration, for Sebald, the impending darkness serves as a metaphor for the inscrutability of the past...
...made this together, and we got to have an artistic dialogue. That is not something you get every day...
...It’s definitely a challenge when you bring in professional choreographers like Josie Walsh who are used to working with dancers who rehearse eight hours a day for a living,” Walker says regarding the difficulty of rising to HBC’s professional dance standards while balancing a full course load and other commitments...
...support in Tawang poses a challenge to its vision of dominion over all of Tibet. The boundary separating Arunachal Pradesh from Tibet - dubbed the McMahon Line - was drawn up by the colonial British and officials from Lhasa in 1914, an act of map-making that China to this day refuses to recognize. According to Beijing, Tawang and its surroundings were under the suzerainty of the Qing dynasty after its armies extended China's frontiers to Tibet and Central Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries. If Tibet is Chinese soil - something that New Delhi has officially recognized - then, the argument...
...rugged terrain are poor and in many places nonexistent, the school system is dysfunctional, and some state officials are corrupt. The Indian military often monopolizes the region's functioning infrastructure for its own deployment and strategic ends, leaving the Monpa again sandwiched on the edge of latter-day empires...