The Great Ganesha

I heard on NPR yesterday, that an Italian DJ named Gaudi (a namesake of the original, obviously) has remixed some of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s early work to a reggae beat. He got some forty-year-old reel-to-reel of tapes of unreleased sessions from Khan’s record label and spent two years wading through all of it, isolating [...]

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Picture Source 19th century bazaar in Calcutta Today’s WSJ has an article about the Indian retail baron Kishore Biyani who founded Pantaloon Retail (currently the largest retailer in India, in terms of revenues) and owns the supermarket chains Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar. For the supermarkets, he initially tried to emulate the Western model of [...]

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Folks, I am all grown-up now, and am finally moving shop over to my own domain: greatganesha.com. For now, I am using domain mapping, which means that whether you read the blog via feed or via bookmarks, you will not notice anything different (except that it already says “greatganesha.com/….” in the address bar once you’re [...]

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Spartans! Prepare for glory! The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant. That few stood against many. And before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed. – Spartan King Leonidas I’m just kidding. This post has nothing to do with the movie 300 other than the geeky fact that [...]

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SAJA (the South Asian Journalist’s Association) has an article on their forum today, highlighting an excellent montage of magazine covers featuring anything and everything South Asian leading all the way back to 1921. My favorites are from the real early years, like this New Yorker cover from 1931 (when it cost fifteen cents!). These covers [...]

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Let’s face it. All of us desis grew up reading Archie comics. And I’ve blogged about it before. I was definitely an addict. I would look forward to going to the “library” (which, in 80s Bombay were basically privately run places where you could borrow books for cash) and picking up a stack of Archies. [...]

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I blogged about Tintin earlier, when someone from Moldova dropped by the blog. Moldova was once a part of Moldavia, on which Herg? based the fictitious nation of Syldavia (from The Calculus Affair, amongst others). This time, it’s less a case of life meeting comic-book art, than a case of virtual life meeting comic- book [...]

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