The Great Ganesha

We are in sunny Puerto Rico this week. I’m chairing a session at a conference here (and giving a talk). We got here on Sunday and had a little, shall we say, “adventure” on the way to our hotel. Having recently been introduced to the wonders of the navigational GPS, we decided to get one [...]

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[Originally on Desicritics] …or “the puckish humor of Pop Art [combined] with the serene and cerebral qualities of Minimalism” [link] depending on your point of view. Stingel’s Buddha An article in last Sunday’s Times talks about Italian artist Rudolf Stingel and his association with Buddha and India: Mr. Stingel?s associations with Buddha are longstanding. As [...]

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Was reading the news this morning and I came across the following quote: ?It?s just the most fantastic thing to be free. It was an appalling experience…occasionally quite terrifying.? ?It became hard to imagine normal life. I dreamed several times of being free, but always woke up in that room.? [link] It’s from BBC journalist [...]

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Nirali Magazine recently published an interview with Chef Manju Malhi who’s planning on bringing British food to India. When I read it I had a vision. It went something like this…

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The Moor’s Last Sigh: ‘Twas not meant to be… ‘Tis a sad, sad day here at The Great Ganesha. So sad in fact, that we are declaring tomorrow to be a National Holiday (at least in the US) and we all hope you follow suit. It came as a shock to us all. Like a [...]

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[Originally on Blogcritics] Sometime in the 1980s (or thereabouts), I heard ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’ for the first time. It was on my father’s Sony stereo system, which was covered with a custom-made plastic case and occupied an exalted position on his bedroom shelf. I had just been given “stereo privileges” [...]

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