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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor
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I genuinely did not think I could like Zohran Mamdani any more and then I read this
Screenshot from The Namesake (2006) directed by Mira Nair with text below: "If it wasn’t for Harold and Kumar, there would be no Namesake (at least not in its current incarnation). John Cho, who played Harold in the White Castle flick, recommended that Penn read Lahiri’s novel. “Since I live in the plastic bubble known as Los Angeles, I was not aware that The Namesake had come out. After proper chastisement from Cho, I went out and bought the book, read it in a single sitting, and loved it. John and I discussed trying to get rights to the film,” says Penn. They found out later that Mira Nair had acquired the rights the week before—and so began Penn’s campaign to get cast in the movie. (Nair’s son, Zohran, was a fan of the stoner comedy and begged his mother to choose Penn as protagonist Gogol Ganguli. Before Penn, Nair was considering casting Bollywood heartthrob Abhishek Bachchan. The rest is history.)" https://web.archive.org/web/20171007021244/https://niralimagazine.com/2007/03/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-namesake/
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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An org chart? No, of course not. Distinct titles for each aunt and uncle by birth order? We’d never

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October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I spent my entire PhD figuring this out, and Tressie McMillan Cottom just…tweeted it out
October 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Indian Ocean mentioned 🥳🎉
NYT Flashback Quiz: "As Roman import silk, Pliny the Elder complains about the issue it creates: a trade deficit with China."
September 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This is how I feel every time I talk to someone about these cuts and feel this implicit expectation that I have to convince them by defending the importance of language learning. Just because the world has gone mad doesn’t mean I’m the one who has some explaining to do.
Excerpt from an op ed by Daisy Rockwell: “As I write these lines, I struggle to explain why humanistic study and language learning are not only important to the University of Chicago, but to our society at large. I struggle, because the importance of such things are truths that I, and many of my peers, hold to be self-evident. Why is there a sudden race to embrace a future where robots replace us all? Why is there an ardent hope that it will no longer be necessary to learn how to speak new languages or translate literature? Why is there a longing to see human knowledge production fail in the face of machine learning? What makes a future ruled by Dr. Who–style Daleks so attractive to, well, just about everyone in charge?”
August 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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those medieval Magic the Gathering tournaments could get pretty dicey
August 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM