Tarana Khan comments on the Delhi High Court decision on the role of girl’s family in a dowry case.
In a commendable decision, the Delhi High Court has stated that people who give dowry should be prosecuted if they go ahead with the marriage despite recieving demands for the same (as reported in The Indian [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Role of the Woman and her Family in Dowry
Published by February 28th, 2007 in India, Justice and Society. 0 CommentsIndia Budget 2007 - initial comments
Published by February 28th, 2007 in Economy and India. 0 CommentsSome initial reactions on India’s Union Budget 2007, presented by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram today.
Suryamurthy lists some of the key measures announced and some quotes such as these
Agriculture must top the agenda of policymakers. “There is no dearth of schemes, there is no dearth of funds, what needs to be done is to deliver the [...]
Or so thought G Mohan Prakash at KingRooster on December 17th 1974.
He said I sneaked upon my Ajjis room yesterday to gobble her rave ounde and chakkuli but found her talking to next-door neighbor at backyard. They were talking about a war or famine and world will end this December.
But how do you know [...]
Samanth Subramanian on Martin Scorsese winning the Oscar, finally, for Best Director.
The Academy’s persistent ignorance of Scorsese – as of Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Robert Altman in earlier decades – had already undergone the ultimate subversion. Scorsese towered so high in his repute that it had begun to reflect on the Academy and its [...]
Gargi H writes a poem on Parzania and Gujarat
they managed to speak of EVERYTHING that happened there.without trying to save faces of anyone.yes, not just one, but all the stories are told..how they raped.how they killed.how they drank the blood.how they lit every street on fire.how they organised it.how well!
Niladri Roy pens a post on education in India.
a) Revamp of primary education curriculum to teach ‘Life Skills” as against learning by rote .
b) Introduction of “Technology Enhanced Education” –setting the hardware in place
c) Examination Reforms (Are we testing for the ability to memorize, as against the ability to conceptualize and innovate ?) …
Anitha writes a gripping story.
“Father! Father! Someone’s coming!”
Two ragged snot-nosed children, brown as the earth that baked them in its dust, came running into the little hut. The father, who was sitting on his haunches smoking a local weed, broke into a wheezing cough that racked his skeletal frame.
Suresh blogs about his encounter with sadhus psychedelics and philosophises.
Even Now lot of religions across the world use drugs as a source of glimpse to divine. You can get enough records of this usage in Aghori, Essenes, Sufiana, Tibetan traditions. But then this was a mystic science which got lost over a way and Drugs [...]
Sree Pillai helps you identify the state to which a particular BSNL mobile number belongs
I came across this table below to identify the home state (Indian) to which a a BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) cellphone belong to. For example, if the cell phone number is 9447100100, its first 4 digits are 9447, which [...]
Capitalism, the only way out?
Published by February 26th, 2007 in Economy, Globalisation and Politics. 0 CommentsV.Isvarmurti, ex-MLC from Tamilnadu, seems to think that capitalism is the only way out for India. In an open letter to PM, after his visit to Shantiniketan, he writes this
One silver linging is the Chief Minister’s change of heart. He now openly says Capitalism is the way out! There is now an unsaid truth [...]
Nariyal Chutney rants about language issues in India
Hindi was always a language of such complexity back in Kerala and Tamilnadu that many could not master it even after seven years of learning in School and College. The state of Hindi has been like the form of Virendar Shewag that got effaced just before the [...]
YSR in Andhra gets ‘Nixonistic’ with a controversial GO and his out in the open feud with Ramoji Rao, Vikram writes a ‘prescription’ for CM Dr.Reddy
It’s here that YSR needs some education on how to handle media. To start with, you cannot stop people from talking bad about you. It happens in our personal lives [...]
Screen Sifar writes a PS to the post that she wrote for the new Blank Noise Blogathon (Action Heroes). The Post Script talks about the clothes she wore on the day she was harassed.
On the eve of the incident which I cite as harassment, I was wearing a loose cut skirt, a full sleeved top [...]
Lorraine wonders about Enid Blyton:
However, as much as I still love her work, I have to agree that going back and reading her books is a mixed bag. Many ‘characters’ are actually caricatures, and barely cover the bare skeletons of age-old stereotypes. Like, when I went back and read Malory Towers, I was stunned at [...]
Do smelly people bother you? Read this:
There was a time when we had 3-4 such smelly people at work around me. I always felt like that little boy in sixth sense uttering in that hushed tone “I see smelly people, they are all around me. Walking around like regular people. They can’t smell anything about [...]
Karnail visits the Gwalior Fort and comes up with a reality check.
Gwalior’s Bus stand and the Railway Station (out side) are one of the ugliest and filthiest in the country. Fort area is an excellent place for all interested in forts ruins. But:
*The fort area is not well maintained,
*Archeology people are not doing anything [...]
Desidabba compares old Doordarshan newsreaders with present day newscasters:
The recent Saif Ali Khan (where he was rushed to a hospital after complaining of chest pain) is one of the many examples when the television news media went into frenzy in the race to ‘break’ the news first and/or make it exclusive. Ironically about seven different news [...]
This one is absolutely hilarious - Cosmic Voices delivers Chidambaram’s budget speech:
The budget speech has been deliberately made long so that all those who are listening can go to sleep and have a dream budget, like they had under a sleeping PM. Before I begin to start my budget speech, I would like to share [...]
Easy-to-find Hindi songs online
Published by February 25th, 2007 in Music and Science & Technology. 4 CommentsAnand has developed a very cool new tool that helps you find Hindi songs with just a few keystrokes.
I find it a nuisance to have to go to Raaga, search for a song, not find it, then go to MusicIndiaOnline, not find it, then go to Musicplug.in, and so on until Google.
So I got the [...]
Hip Hop Grandmom tells us of an incident that has disturbed her, and which, she thinks, reflects a growing trend.
The boy is not yet 18 years of age and he has already tasted power. What will his future be? Will the learning process be compromised? He could well be an asset to our society but [...]
Kaushik has a very entertaining account of two of the US programmers he works with.
Programmers who love their jobs are interesting people. Zed, for instance- the fortyish chap- is a Star Wars devotee. And that’s how I get my work done. I patiently gape with wide eyes and raised eyebrows when he crosses light-beam-swords and [...]
Death of a Reader: Remembering Sham Lal
Published by February 25th, 2007 in Books and Media. 0 CommentsVenkateshwar Parsa Rao pays tributes to the almost Borgesian figure of Sham Lal who passed away at the age of 94 two days back.
In any other country, Sham Lal would have been an intellectual icon. He would have been someone like Walter Lippman or I.F.Stone of the United States, intellectuals who stood in the mid-stream [...]
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SloganMurugan shows us a picture of vegeterian blood. I had seen it beofre in Bangalore but now I understand it better.
Nitin Pai, on the Indian Economy Blog:
Of course, corporations, like citizens may want to do good for the society they are a part of. But they have no moral or legal obligation to do so. In a country where a communal socialist government is not only unwilling to do the needful to unshackle restrict labour [...]
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