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		<title>Perriton Maxwell, 1899 and 1921</title>
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		<link>http://www.mansishah.net/browntown/3428</link>
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		<title>American avatars, pt. 3: Poe, 1842</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE &#8221;Red Death&#8221; had long devastated the country. No pestilence had  ever been so fatal or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the  redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden  dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The  scarlet stains upon the body, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American avatars, part 2: Walton Ford&#8217;s birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next stop on the desultory voyage a l&#8217;avatar Americain is this huge watercolor by Walton Ford.  I was flipping through his recently published super-deluxe Taschen coffeetable raisonné the other day at the public library and was especially struck by Ford&#8217;s Indophillic early 90s series &#8220;Avatars&#8211;The Birds of India.&#8221;  The style of the series is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhooter Nach</title>
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A psychedelic ghost dance from Satyajit Ray&#8217;s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968)
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		<link>http://www.mansishah.net/browntown/3254</link>
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		<title>American avatars: the devil and Mr. Lyman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going to burn down the world
I am going to tear down everything that cannot stand alone
There were so many American avatars before Cameron&#8217;s.  Among them: the biweekly underground zine/mouthpiece of the banjo-playing acid-folk pioneer and charismatic hippie cult leader Mel Lyman, self-published between 1967 and 1969 in Boston.
I am going to shove hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mansishah.net/browntown/3329</link>
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		<title>Cool Cars</title>
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Sudha Cars Museum is one of Hyderabad&#8217;s hidden gems. Tucked away in an unassuming roadside lot near the Nehru Zoological Park, the museum lives up to its claim as the world&#8217;s first and only handmade wacky car museum. It&#8217;s home to handmade wonders such as the Shoe Car, Parrot Cage Car, Lotus Chariot Car, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Koh&#8217;s Brownie Mix</title>
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Tim made an amazing mix for Brown Town! Thanks TK, you rule.
Download audio file (Browntown_Mix.mp3)
01 / Asha Bhosle &#8211; Motiyon Ki Lari Hoon Main
02 / Kalyanji Anandji &#8211; Pyar Sikha Doon
03 / Golimar &#8211; Chiranjeevi Song
04 / Geeta Dutt &#8211; Piya Aiso Jiya Mein
05 / Lata Mangeshkar &#8211; Raton Ke Saye
06 / Asha Bhosle &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sita Devi of Baroda</title>
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		<link>http://www.mansishah.net/browntown/1384</link>
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		<title>Denture Shop, Rawalpindi, India, 1946</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1960, the Sierra Club published an influential book of photographs called This Is the American Earth, co-authored by photographer Ansel Adams and critic Nancy Newhall and featuring 85 black-and-white photographs by Adams and other photographers, accompanied by Newhall&#8217;s text.  A classic of environmentalist literature, the tone is in line with its authors&#8217; aestheticized vision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mansishah.net/browntown/3194</link>
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		<title>Sahib, HPB aur Ghulam: Khandala&#8217;s verdant and perfumed abyss</title>
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Rani Mukherjee wants to know what there is to do in Khandala.  H.P. Blavatsky has some advice for her, in From the caves and jungles of Hindostan, a sensationalist post-spiritualist travelogue of India, written during 1879 and 1880 for the pages of the Russki Vyestnik and translated into English in 1902.  In this excerpt, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mansishah.net/browntown/3135</link>
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