Smithbarney
- Location
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Birthday
- May 22
- Bio
- Canned hedge fund manager using my millions to wipe out poverty, hunger and disease from the face of the earth.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Floating in Time: A Houseboat
in Kerala, India
March 12, 2009 10:18AM - Favorite Movie: Satyajit Ray's
"Distant Thunder"
February 19, 2009 10:03AM - Happy Birthday, Karen. Om
Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.
February 09, 2009 10:24PM - Ted Kennedy: A true friend of
the wretched of the earth
January 21, 2009 02:40PM - End the American Gulag:
Thoughts on MLK Day
January 19, 2009 07:27PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Magnificent. How much
cooler is it over there now
compared to
the plains? Been
to…”
May 04, 2009 12:03PM - “Brilliant. In the only
picture I saw, while Brian
Lara has
completed his weight
s…”
May 04, 2009 11:42AM - “Beautifully told. You
bring out so well the changing
times
and mores over the
the…”
May 03, 2009 12:06PM - “(1) 1/2 True. You
managed to kick only
one of his
balls with
one of those
Thai…”
May 02, 2009 11:03AM - “Very funny. Maybe you
should do an Open Call "meme"
to ask
for other
in…”
May 01, 2009 01:54PM
Ashani Sanket, 1973
[Distant Thunder. Color, In Bengali with
subtitles. 101 minutes.]
… 
Parliament House, New Delhi
photo: Bill Strong
Dedicated to the memory of Mourad Amarsy and Loumia… Read full post »
The Concord
Bookshop, Concord, Massachusetts
Having led a somewhat unrooted life in my… Read full post »
Adivasi Megaliths c. 500 -1000 BCE, near Hazaribagh, India
Adivasis (literally, in Sanskrit, "original dwellers") are thought to be the earliest inhabitants of… Read full post »
Gandhi in Noakhali, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) c. Feb.1947
October 2, 2008
Today is Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday in India commemorating Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's birthday. Mahatma[1] Gandhi was born on this date in 1869.… Read full post »
At Woofy's suggestion and with my own sense of shared experience, this is for Susan Mitchell.
India is often experienced as cac0phony. As I have written earlier, it crowds and assails all your senses at once. Perhaps because of that, I cherish those moments most when I… Read full post »
These are the dogs of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. (And yes, those are camel carts and bullock carts and Toyota SUV's in the background.)
I remembered them after my friend Caveat introduced me to the beautiful Cujo Chuggie and I read about his encounters with various religious sorts.
The… Read full post »
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.… Read full post »
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