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GovWin Recon: Nov. 10: Argument Against Small Biz Set-Asides; SBA, DHS

21.05.12

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Safeguarding Unclassified DoD Information (DFARS Case 2011-D039) – The DOD has cancelled a November 15 public meeting on safeguarding unclassified information. Comments on the proposed rule will still be accepted via email until December 16.

Ballistic-Resistant Body Armor Standard Workshop - The National Institute of Justice and National Institute of Standards and Technology are holding a workshop for manufacturers, certification bodies and test laboratories on the Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor Standard . Registration for the November 29 event in Gaithersburg, Md., is open until November 21.

Source: govWin (blog)

Publishing | Revolutionary road

21.05.12

One night in 2007, Achal Prabhala picked up a magazine from the stack that had been mouldering gently by his bedside for months. It was a pile his parents had regretfully handed him to give away to a public library, as they redid their century-old Bangalore home. Prabhala, who had not gotten around to doing so, opened an issue at random. Then, suddenly thrilled, he stayed up reading one issue after another.

Here, in the pages of a forgotten title called Quest , was the colossal Nirad Chaudhuri, writing in his characteristically provocative style about “the Hindu order” (at the end, a note: “The writer does not apologise for using the word ‘Hindu’...instead of ‘Indian’”). Here, many years later, was Dilip Chitre attacking Chaudhuri’s “hate-affair with India” with silken vigour. Here was Jyotirmoy Datta arguing that Indian writing in English was the work of “caged chaffinches”, to evoke a response from no less than Purushottama Lal—Prof. P. Lal—about the form and function of Indian English literature.

Source: Livemint