Obituary Mr. Amar Mathur:-A life so beautifully lived deserves to be beautifully remembered- With great sadness, we announce the demise of Mr. Amar Mathur. He taught Economics and BST at AVS from April 1998 to February 2018 and was associated with Dhansiri House. His students and colleagues ...
The Amateur Sailor and The Steep Atlantick Stream, the two he wrote about his time at sea, are the equal and possible superiors of The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, one of the most famous books about the Royal Navy in the Second World War. The Cruel Sea is not presented as anything...
Pajaro Valley senior Valeria Acosta is on the cusp of setting the school’s all-time record for career goals scored. The Grizzlies star soccer player recorded a hat trick with three goals in a 4-0 shoutout win against cross-town rival Watsonville in non-league action Dec. 21. Acosta,.....
Pleasant Valley Sunday. I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) evenmoredistasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from se...
Question: How can a brand new, original EMI master show tape damage, before it has even been used to make vinyl records out of it? Answer: It can't. Part four: screaming vegetables Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream (let's shorten that toVMandSTLS, shall we?) are both unreleas...
Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking,poems by Tan Lin (Wesleyan) 1. Tan Lin really is a genius. I had once tried to graph the universe of writers with the X-axis being reputation and the Y-axis being quality (as evaluated be an unbiased search committee co...
People keen to write San Francisco’s obituary warned of a “doom loop”. Abandoned downtown property would lead to budget cuts and the erosion of public services, which would in turn accelerate the exodus. Many people worried that the city could go the way of Detroit, which suffered a pai...
M. Butler, died in November 1959, her Times obituary noted, among her many accomplishments, that “She also published two not very good novels.” Daylight in a Dream was the first, and I hope here to demonstrate that the Times writer was not only tactless but wrong. The story in ...
In 1984, my classroom had a bulletin board of the candidates running for President of the United States. It included Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan. I remember asking my teacher why Jesse Jackson’s picture was not included on the bulletin board. She told me the bulletin board only include...
DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ has cut Silicon Valley poseurs down to size Save Janan Ganesh The revenge of the Mediterranean The future of the continent will be shaped in the once-mocked south Save Enuma Okoro In search of life’s compass It’s all too easy to be swept up in th...