Anant Rangaswami discovers that news in the vernacular, and not English, is more popular on the desi blogosphere.
And it struck me that I was doing the babalog thing, looking only at English news channels and English newspapers – what if one took a look at web offerings of vernacular channels and newspapers as well?
Surprise, surprise. [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Kochuthresiamma , “old and wiser”, pays a glowing tribute to the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, on the anniversary of her assasination.
Older and wiser(?!) now, I think Indira Gandhi was what the country needed at that juncture of India’s development. While the Nehruvian era with its mixed economy and license raj helped stabilize a recuperating [...]
Shivam has published the photographs of the gruesome murder of Dalits in Kherlanji, near Nagpur.
Warning: If you have a faint heart, please don’t visit the above link.
The Labour Laws, the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, the Workmen’s Compensation Act, the Insurance Act, the Employees’ State Insurance Act, the Hindu Marriage Act, the Special Marriages Act, the Indian Marriages Act…none of them work for the gay person. So, ‘even if section 377 is decriminalised, it is not a panacea to liberate gays and [...]
Siva Rajendran ponders about the future of Blogosphere
So what’s the next step? What does the future hold for blogging? How can we make this medium even more popular and increase the reader base? Well, it’s time for the blogs to go a little bit professional, and to take on the magazines. There are bloggers [...]
A letter to childreporters.blogspot.com, a blog run by child reporters from the largely tribal region of Koraput, Orissa :
It’s high time the government should come out with a carreer plan for these rescued child workers. And if the government has not thought of it yet, we, the children, should come forward for our unfortunate friends [...]
Anoop Saha proposes Mallika Sherawat for President:
The political temperature is already heating up, with names being propped up from left (Somenath Chatterjee), right (B.S. Shekhawat) and center (Karan Singh). And somebody actually had the audacity to suggest the name of universally reviled Arjun Singh as a possible candidate. Karan Singh holds the dubious distinction of [...]
Something very sinister is happening here in India, something as despicable as happened in the Soviet Union about 70 years ago and something that happened in the US over the last 100 years: utter decimation of the independent farmer.
It’s not all conspiracy theory - Arun Shrivastava presents a lot of factual evidence to support his [...]
Zainab Bawa asks - What’s public space? And what’s community space? And what’s property?
Shabana’s rebellion
Published by October 31st, 2006 in Culture, Feminism, Religion and Women. 0 CommentsSumming up the reactions to Shabana’s ‘rebellion’, Desigal says she’s confused - ‘Is it wrong to want to rebel against any stricture - one way or another?’
‘O Devi Ma, even the dogs understand English’
Published by October 30th, 2006 in Dalit and Language. 0 CommentsShashwati Talukdar sympathizes with Chandrabhan’s invocation to Lord Macaulay even as she enjoys the irony of using Shakespeare to advance the Hindutva agenda.
An interesting contrast to the view of Hindu Nationalists, for whom “Macaulay’s Children” is a favored insult for members of the English speaking Indian intelligentsia
Derek Beres writes on the street music of India.
In 1996 the British Library Sound Project assigned Rolf Killius to journey through India to record street music that is regionally popular, though relatively unknown beyond the continent… Performed by musicians of the Daasari community in the southeastern region of Andrha Pradesh, the tinny clicks of symbols [...]
Myspace examines the two major philosophical schools that The Gita sought to reconcile- the Sankhya and the Vedanta.
We know that the Gita was written long after the emergence of modern Hinduism. So it was able to draw on a wide variety of philosophical themes — both ancient and relatively modern by comparison, and often opposing [...]
The bigger picture emerging seems to be that as a society we are going into an expression overdrive.
85 channels..but very few interest Saurabh Sharma.
Namdapha is reportedly the only place in India to see the four cats - tiger, snow leopard, clouded leopard, and leopard. But I knew that if I saw even one of them here, I had the good deeds of all my previous births to thank.
Birds, leeches, Lisu, rivers, rains, ants, landslides and life. Janaki on [...]
Sujai compiles some thought-provoking quotes from Kashmiri bloggers.
Sripriya, physician and victim
Published by October 30th, 2006 in Feminism, Indiaspora and Women. 1 CommentHeartcrossings writes about Sripriya, victim of a physically abusive marriage, who despite everything ‘is one of the most loving and generous people I have come across.’
Sripriya used to be a practicing physician when she was in India. Today she can hardly speak in coherent sentences. Thoughts collide with each other randomly as she moves aimlessly [...]
Have you ever wondered what happens to that chocolate wrapper, orange peal or Frooti pack after you throw it in your garbage bin?
Surya Ragunaathan follows the trail of what we throw away.
Service at the call of the nation is not just another job or another career but a calling that demands supreme sacrifice when called upon to do so. Very few people who have not made services their calling in some part of their life will ever understand this simple truth.
C.P.C.Nath makes an ‘excellent case’ for [...]
Ashish takes a closer look at popular job portals:
Everybody claims that they have a different way of approaching the problem but they will do so AFTER they are done with doing what others have done.
Dweep Chanana thinks so.
For our choice of national values, we wish to emulate not the social service egalitarianism of Europe, but the opportunistic capitalism and resource profligacy of America.
Education: not for all?
Published by October 30th, 2006 in Development, Education and India. 0 CommentsRazib says ‘Education for all- is a nice slogan but merely a slogan’. And Prabhu thinks ‘abolishing schools’ is a good idea.
Kids are collateral damage in the battle of the sexes
Published by October 29th, 2006 in India. 0 CommentsShiv Kumar writes on why the Domestic Violence Act, while welcome, may not work.
Such a law will not really work if the state is not able to provide for the welfare of children in trouble relationship. Instances where even women set afire by their in-laws refrain from naming their husbands for fear of jeopardising their [...]
Kamla Bhatt writes about a documentary on Assam and links to a segment available at Youtube:
For many years now Assam has had an insurgent problem that has kind of disappeared from people’s radar. This documentary reminds us how this problem persists and has colored and impacted many people’s lives.
Rose McCann looks at Australian jobs being outsourced to India, albiet from an internationalist perspective.
How would you feel if you were a bank worker told by management you were redundant because the bank was moving your job “offshore”, to India, and were then asked to train your Indian replacement?
This is the dilemma faced by Sydney [...]
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