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Given that his life has already seen enough hardship and redemption to warrant full bluesman stature, Ponnudorai is unfazed by the indifference. A Tamil by ethnicity and Malaysian by birth, he grew up in the tin-mining town of Ipoh, the youngest of 10. Ponnudorai's parents were too poor...
Atget arrived on the scene at a crucial moment not just for Paris, but also for photography. Cameras were becoming less cumbersome, glass plates were giving way to film, and new chemicals and techniques were broadening the photographer's palette. Atget mostly shunned these advances, using a bulky, large-format...
After the tough time the U.S. has had trying to maintain its garrisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, this lesson may seem very contemporary. But it is one that has been learned before, notably by the British in India exactly 150 years ago. On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 1857...
A long-lived Harvard band is rare; a successful Harvard band is rarer. Chester French could well be on its way to being both. The genre-bending musical duo of David A. “D.A.” Wallach ’07 and Maxwell C. Drummey ?...
When an article I wrote for The Harvard Salient on Iranian President Mohammad Khatemi’s continuation of blatant human rights abuses against women and homosexuals was edited to refer to homosexuals as “sodomites,” I wondered, “What on earth are...