Monthly Archives: November 2012

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Add your thoughts here… (optional) Echoes in the Mist In the 1890’s, the huge, majestic cliffs in New York State and New Jersey, known as the Palisades, were being dismantled and turned into railroad ballast. Ballast is the stones that … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 16, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on KANISHK THAROOR:
An essay on the refurbished “Islamic art” galleries of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (published in the National) During the past decade of fulminating and fretting, those of us who live in Europe and…

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Aqua of NASA Sees Punjab on Fire

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Stubble burning in lakhs of agricultural fields by farmers of the Indian state of Punjab has finally caught the eye of NASA. The Aqua satellite of NASA has sent images of the state’s agri farms in which entire Punjab appears … Continue reading →