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...considered a worthier Indian writer - as if geographic location is the only true measure of ethnic and cultural fidelity. "Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English, who live in England or America and whom one might have met at a party?" wondered Indian novelist Amit Chaudhuri in the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. Yes, wrote Rushdie in the Vintage Book of Indian Writing. "The ironic proposition that India's best writing since independence may have been done...
...October 1979, photographer Anton Corbijn, the son of a rural Dutch Protestant minister, set out for England in pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while...
...sounds and 60,000 fan-filled stadiums of big-time college football. Hell, driving back from the Harvard-Lehigh football game on Saturday night, the radio announcement of my hometown Colorado Buffaloes upsetting Oklahoma made me realize just how much I was missing while tucked away in the New England obscurity that is Division I-AA, non-postseason eligible football...
...Buenos Aires. Do Chavez's close ties to Iran affect Argentine relations with Venezuela in that regard? I can't select another head of state's friends any more than I can select another head of state. We have good relations with Israel, which has close ties to England; but should I let Argentina's differences with England over the Malvinas [The Falkland Islands] affect our relations with Israel? You have to respect certain aspects of another nation's sovereignty...
...into six thematic sessions, will play at the Brattle Theatre this weekend. Seven of the filmmakers will attend their screenings and answer questions about their work. The festival—presented in Boston by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston and the Kennedy School’s New England Alumni Association—embarks each year from Stanford University, where it was founded 10 years ago by Jasmina Bojic, a filmmaker, critic, and professor at Stanford. “Documentary, in particular the images, can influence people to think about the world in different ways,” Bojic...