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Arikamedu: The Port That Traded with Rome
Arikamedu, about four kilometres south of Pondicherry on the Ariyankuppam river, is one of India’s best-known excavated ports with evidence of trade with the Roman world. This piece was inspired by Agni; the photographs are hers, from her visit on 17 October. The site is a low mound on the right bank of the river, where it opens into a lagoon before the Bay of Bengal. Continue reading →
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Brown Pundits on Autopilot: 240 Regular Readers, 14 Commenters
Brown Pundits has been on autopilot since the redesign on 1 October. The Open Threads come round with the festival calendar, the latest comments sit at the top of the homepage, and the conversation carries on whether or not anyone posts.
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A tale of two cities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In our age of internet echo chambers, this immortal line has new meaning, not of privilege and poverty but about disparate views of the same time and space as fed to us by our information sources.
