Monday04 Aug 01:34 PM
A new chai blog. Dig it! And rest assured, these guys know chai —we are from the same chai walla tradition.
They're now open for business and serving up some tasty stories, yummy audio clips, scrumptious art and photography, and a tempting authentic masala chai recipe for all ya'll chai walla upstarts. Om!
Link.
posted by
Spiros Antonopoulos
TAGS — blog, chai, chai walla, Indiaspora, pilgrimage, tea
Mon 29 Sep
2008
04:18 PM
YouTube: Durga Slays Mahisha Her basic myth is simple, as the greatest stories tend to be: Mahisha, a great demon (asura), has undertaken extraordinary austerities, and thereby accrued such vast power that even the Gods can no longer defeat him....
Mon 04 Aug
2008
01:34 PM
A new chai blog. Dig it! And rest assured, these guys know chai —we are from the same chai walla tradition. They're now open for business and serving up some tasty stories, yummy audio clips, scrumptious art and photography,...
Tue 29 Jul
2008
04:16 PM
There’s no such thing as the “original culture”—we are always in a state of flux. —Tendzin Choegyal, the Dalai Lama's Youngest Brother, on Tokyo Mango Some of you have already seen this, since it was Boing Boinged and all,...
Wed 23 Jul
2008
06:29 AM
[A YouTube video is embedded here. Link.] Beautiful! Link. Thanks Khamasea! (via)...
Fri 18 Jul
2008
03:37 PM
[The links are NOW UPDATED. Purchasing the digital files is now a very simple, automated procedure!] It is one of the goals of Namarupa to celebrate the many possible approaches to knowledge, and to the Divine, that India has offered...
Wed 04 Jun
2008
10:39 AM
55:27 minutes, black-and-white, color, with sound. Dan Graham's classic documentary art video, Rock My Religion (1982-84), explores the similarities between religion and rock music in today's culture. From the "liner notes" at UBUWEB —"Graham formulates a history that begins...
Mon 12 May
2008
01:01 PM
“Can you see the truth of it boys?... Life and death. The eagle and the washing up and the outhouse. The stove and the snow. The horse and the mountains and the 'baca juice. No doubt about it. The whole...
Fri 09 May
2008
10:34 AM
Courtesy of Google Books---The New Larned History, 1922. (I think it's copyright free, or damn close...) BRAHMANISM: Essential features.—"Although Brahmanism has exercised a vast influence over the beliefs and worships of Asia during many centuries, and still numbers, at...
Wed 16 Apr
2008
08:11 PM
gbSk & I caught a preview show of Mike Myers doing this Guru Pitka schtick a few years ago. It was horrendous. Totally disappointing... and we were sooooooo excited about it. The show was all guru-student sex jokes with...
Thu 03 Apr
2008
03:27 PM
Souljerky (in co-operation with Process Media, the Knitting Factory, The Shala, Tee Pee Records and Cold Sweat) are overjoyed to welcome The Source Family and Ya Ho Wa 13 to NYC next week for several rare appearances and special...
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Foremost credit goes to my wife Erin for her tireless patience + support of this endeavor. Thanks to Barry Silver for the artwork in the above banner and for his friendship, to Robert Beer for the illustrations. Thanks to Eddie Stern for his ongoing support and for providing inspiration. Thanks to my fellow farmers at One Digital Farm for help growing this.
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