Are the Rich Worth a Damn or a Daam?
ChrestomatherOn the cover of the New York Times Magazine this weekend was a question, printed in large type: ‘Are the Rich Worth a Damn?’ What does ‘damn’ mean here?…
Chitra Sankaran’s New Publications
From Singapore Chitra Sankaran writes: 'I wanted to let you know that the edited volume on your novels entitled History, Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction is finally…
More on Goa’s Slaves: There were also many Bengalis
My post on Goa's Japanese slaves has elicited some interesting responses. From Lucano Alvares, now in Merida, Mexico: 'This is most fascinating, even more so because of its…
Heartbreaks of the Archive
John-Paul Ghobrial, is a Cambridge historian who is working on the life of Elias of Babylon, a 17th century Christian traveler from Mesopotamia. He describes his project as…