Attention Kerala scholars! I just finished reading an excellent book on youth, gender, education, consumption, and liberalization in contemporary Kerala by the anthropologist Ritty Lukose.
Many of the arguments in Liberalization’s Children really resonated with my experiences (as a female) from this past summer in Kerala (one reason I really liked the book). Lukose’s book [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
New book on gender, youth, and liberalization
Posted in Resources, Women and feminism, tagged Books, Fashion and beauty on 3 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Right on, Marin Nestle
Posted in Food, News clippings, tagged Organic, Books, Bay Area, NPR on 1 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite reservations I have about the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Food section (see here, for one example), and the limitations to Michael Pollan’s book, Omnivore’s Dilemma, I found today’s column by Nestle to be right on.
Today, Nestle addressed the recent controversy over Omnivore’s Dilemma: many universities and colleges are distributing it as required reading for [...]
Autorickshaws and haggling over 50 cents
Posted in Malayalam, Travel logistics, tagged Books, Humor, Malayalam, Trivandrum on 14 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Depending on the types of interactions I’ve had all day, I either feel that everyone here is out to rob/screw me, or is trying to just make an honest living.
For example, I’m sometimes overcharged 30 rupees for an autorickshaw ride of under 4 kilometers. I never know when and how much to haggle, and [...]
On LCDs and Plasma TVs, from India to California
Posted in Environment, Resources, We All Live Downstream, tagged Books, the Times of India on 6 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s no secret that neither LCDs nor Plasmas are very energy efficient, yet they are coveted by many people.
I found the following articles from the past two days to be very interesting.
From the Times of India: Durables: Staying alive, staying strong
Yearning for a LCD or plasma TV on your living room wall? Go right ahead. [...]
Trouble brews for coffee planters
Posted in News clippings, Political Economy, tagged Climate, Books on 23 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(From the Hindu)
YERCAUD: Coffee planters of Shevaroys Hills are facing problems this year.
The advanced ‘blossom showers’ have withered their hopes of having a bountiful yield, which, according to their conservative estimate, will be of a staggering loss of 40 per cent.
(The Shevaroys Hills are in Tamil Nadu, which neighbors Kerala. For a great [...]
A Kerala cookbook
Posted in Food, Resources, tagged Books on 22 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am sure many more excellent cookbooks on Kerala cuisine exist out there, but I wanted to recommend one that I have: The New Tastes of India by Das Sreedharan.
Sreedharan was the founder and chef of Rasa Restaurants in London (our local one was the one in Stoke Newington).
