Monday Cup Of Links - 7

Thanksgiving Dinner Discussion Topics Edition

Happy Thanksgiving Week! 

My novel is chugging along. A little slower this week; I’m only at 30,000 words. But I realized I hit a bottleneck with plot, and spent time on that. It looks like it’s at the interesting parts, where ass-kicking happens, and people die. Anyway, onto the links! 

• I came across India House in London. Innocuous name, no? Between 1905 and 1910, it was a hub for the Indian freedom struggle. They published an anti-colonialist newspaper called The Indian Sociologist, ran guns and money, and a lot of the revolutionaries involved in armed struggle against the British Raj lived at India house when they were students in London, usually studying law. Scotland Yard was always after them, but it ended when Madan Lal Dhingra assassinated a British official who was high up in the Indian administration. I’m incredibly fascinated, and I want to drop everything and write a novel about these guys. 

• A professor of psychology at the University of Toronto was served a takedown notice …