Sunday Reading

Bint Battuta:

• "The 'mainstreaming' of Christmas in India sits alongside a growing indifference towards Christians"
• Gramsci's dislike of New Year’s Day
• The Figure of Rama in India and Thailand: A Comparative Study
• Curzon’s Durbars and the Alqabnamah: The Persian Gulf as part of the Indian Empire
• The Social Impact of Hindu Temples in East Bengal under the Mughals
• Physiognomy in Islam
• The history of the Indo-Fijian community
• Thomas Milo on Giambattista Bodoni's Arabic type
• Ottoman Music Therapy
• Zein and the art of motorcycle maintenance
• "But why do we go to school and study? We will only be killed in the next war"
• The "Muslims" of Auschwitz

Kerim Friedman:

• Two-thirds of prison inmates in India are undertrials
• David Harvey, monomaniacs and the rate of profit
• Why did Nathuram Godse kill Mahatma Gandhi?
• Joseph Stiglitz: Thomas Piketty gets income inequality wrong
• How the invasion of Panama birthed the quagmire in Iraq
• How Low Income New Yorkers Are Benefiting From The NYPD’s Work Stoppage
• Pain Will Come, On Soft Feet
• China's colonization of the Hong Kong economy
• Injustice at the Intersection
• Being-in-the-world
• Miguel James, Against the Police

ReclaimUC:

• The college trap that keeps people poor
• Why is my curriculum white?
• Color-blind racism in the push to repeal affirmative action in higher education
• Thousands of Peruvian youth and students protest new labor law
• What made college football more like the pros? $7.3 Billion, for a start
• "The transcript of this hearing is yet another glimpse into the highest profile college sexual assault case in years, a case whose now two-year-old history is tangled up with one of the most powerful big-money college football teams in the country."
• "More than a century ago, the very idea of paying [college football] coaches was up for debate."
• You, me, and a thousand strangers: Popular mass direct action in Oakland after Ferguson
• Thinking through the end of police
• 12 wins in 2014 for the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco

Jacob Remes:

• Highways and the murder of American urban neighborhoods
• Sweden decides that no one should die from traffic accidents.
• The geopolitical and macroeconomic effect of falling oil prices
• New York police officers' illegal slowdown: "If the NYPD can safely cut arrests by two-thirds, why haven't they done it before?"
• A program to bring finance and the real economy together again
• A very Atlantic Canadian Christmas

Nathan Deuel:

• "One could imagine this protest as a progressive or even a libertarian strike."
• "Why are they showing up off Long Beach, San Pedro and Palos Verdes?"
• "Next morning [I] started a new book, Pomegranate Soup. I wrote it in 6 weeks flat—I just constantly wrote, and ate!" 
• "A rabbit can travel quite comfortably in a car, but you will need to work a little bit to keep them happy and cool." 
• "Police say there are at least 30 people sleeping permanently in terminal 4, but the number goes up in the winter."
• "The plane entered Lebanon at 6 a.m. and left 17 hours later."
• "She said her curiosity was initially piqued when she learned that the city tracks feces and urine complaints."
• "It is rare for a female bullfighter to be permitted to compete."
• "There’s some chocolate-eating, deep-sleeping 112-year-old man out there who deserves the 'America’s oldest' title."
• "Swanson..was able to paddle to shore, where he fastened his leash cord as a tourniquet around his own bloodied leg."
• "Authorities say Silas retrieved his handgun and told his wife to shoot him. When she declined, he shot her." 

Kitabet:

• This is the year that
• “This is one of the strange features of genocide denial and of Turkification: erasure, by design, works both forward and backward in time.” 
• A note on infrastructure and #blacklivesmatter
• The Fiery Underground Oil Pit Eating L.A.
• Listening to the Living and the Dead: Ruminations on #justiceforLeelahAlcorn
• “Muselmann/musselman/mussulmano is obviously a term meaning “Muslim”, but there is no agreement as to how it came to be used in the camps in this way.”
• “Middle Eastern Women”
• On “smart cities” and the unglamorous technology of urban citizenship
• On Nerd Entitlement
• Bee Workers and the Expanding Edges of Capitalism
• Doris and Me
• A Digital Museum for New York’s Unclaimed Dead