Tastes of Culture

If you want to understand the meaning of comics in India, one place to start is a battered, chipped piece of sandstone from the 9th century. “Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon,” in which an eight-armed goddess impales a part-man, part-animal…

OK, everybody, let’s all sing along! I like potato and you like potahto, I like tomato and you like tomahto, Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto — Let’s call the whole thing off! It’s lettuce, actually, that’s at stake, and plenty of…