Wednesday, February 24

Today is Wednesday of Week 5. I hope you are enjoying this week's reading! Here is a link to Week 5. (And of course some of you are taking this week off, but it's about half-and-half, so I'm doing regular announcements all this week.)

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in your project on Saturday, you should have gotten comments back from me, and today I'll start working through the Sunday items. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

Use the Suggestion Box. If there is something I can be doing to improve this class, you can let me know, either by email or via the Suggestion Box. You'll see the Suggestion Box here in the sidebar of the blog, and it's also a menu item there in Canvas. The Suggestion Box is anonymous, and of course you can always send me an email with a request or suggestion too!

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. It is always fun to see new illustrations in people's blog posts, and Nicholas found this great depiction of the Pandavas which you can see in his Mahabharata Reading Notes. It's the five Pandava brothers, armed and ready for epic action (and everybody in Indian Epics will be meeting the Pandavas in Week 6 when the Mahabharata reading officially begins).

Twitter stream. Here's a wonderful new cartoon from Grant Snider (larger view):

And a very cool cartoon from Dino-man also (larger view):

And some beautiful art from an Urdu manuscript; click the tweet link to see more of each image (learning about beautiful art is one of my main reasons for hanging out at Twitter!).

And speaking of beautiful art, here's something from the Verge: Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images.

Their website is in Japanese, but I used Google Translate to navigate my way to the Spirited Away collection for example: wow! Plus they are large-sized images that you can use for computer wallpaper, website banners, etc.

I know some of you are interested in flood stories, so here's a Crash Course video about ancient Near Eastern floods:

And a spelling graphic about Noah and that ark, not arc:

And some more writing humor: punctuation saves lives again!

February 24: Anant Pai. Today marks the anniversary of the death of Anant Pai in the year 2011, ten years ago today. He was the visionary genius behind the Amar Chitra Katha comic books that many of you have been enjoying in the Indian Epics class. You can find out more about Anant Pai here, and below is a Google Doodle in his honor:

And here is a video about him:

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.