Tabula Rasa has interesting experiences from his travel to China.
Funny thing happens on the way out of the museum. Louis tells us that the driver, Mr. Li, is pissed off because we added the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to our list of things to do. I’d drawn that itinerary up in conjunction with the travel [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Shyam, on racism in books
Whether it’s Tintin, or Enid Blyton, or even P G Wodehouse (one of my all time favourite authors), the point is that the (now politically-incorrect) terms used in those comics/books are merely reflections of the attitude of the times. None of it was maliciously meant - at least in the [...]
Sajjiv Balakrishnan is a cartoonist and he has posted some ‘sportive‘ cartoons and caricatures in his blog Sportato. It is mostly the Cricket players, but still a very good work. Check it out.
Atish and his friends take a weekend bike ride to places near Bangalore with some monsoon showers thrown in.
Sivasamudram was in one word, breathtaking. We hadn’t expected anything close to what we saw. We had probably chosen the best time to visit the falls as the monsoons had ensured that the Cauvery was almost overflowing [...]
Balaji S Rajan shares his experience on sketching in the train on his weekend journeys. He has also posted some of his sketches. Re-discovering a long lost hobby can be very exciting.
Most of the times when people see me spreading my sketch book and pencil kit they become inquisitive. It is nice to see them [...]
About CSA (Child Sexual Abuse)
Published by July 30th, 2007 in Human Rights, Justice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsAchinthya is writing on child sexual abuse and it’s consequences in a series of posts. First two parts up here and here.
I was his favourite,he would tell me. Then he started to teach me
these secret games which somehow made me feel bad. I was scared…
Her lips trembled, voice faltered.
He hurt me often, said I must [...]
Soumitra Sarkar is one of the many amazing singers from the musical blogosphere. He has posted his own version of Chingari Koi Bhadke, one of the classic Kishore Kumar songs.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Published by July 28th, 2007 in Capitalism, Economy and Globalisation. 2 CommentsLeftyProf speculates on how long the Indian economic boom will last.
…some American companies are beginning to close down their India operations and return to their own shores because of the rise in wages in cities like Bangalore. I’m not predicting imminent doom, but this does point to the fact that the outsourcing boom is built [...]
Krish asks us to stop accepting racism as ‘political incorrectness’:
Statements like “he is a Shudra”, “how can brahmins clean the toilet”, “he is a muslim and what do you expect from him”, “those christians, their sole purpose in life is to convert Hindus”, etc. are considered as normal. In fact, many parents even take pride [...]
Sangh Samachar writes on the Shambo slaughter case in the UK where the Hindu Forum mobilsed opinion against the slaughter of the sick sacred bull.
A brief respite from the Hindu forum of Britain (and its allies’) nonsensical comments on the sacred bull. Jay Lakhani is listed as the Director for Education of Hindu council UK, [...]
Amrita’s been following the Shambo (the bull) episode at the Skanda Vale Temple.
The courts of appeal went with those who believed the law should be equal to all. Shambo was once again on the block. The protests went into overdrive. The temple offered to keep Shambo in isolation and when that didn’t work, offered to [...]
Vikram Sood, former head of RAW, spells out in detail, how Tibet is central to China’s plans for the future:
There is another vital natural resource in Tibet. Almost all the major rivers of China, Northern India and South East Asia originate from the Tibetan-Qinghai plateau. The Yangtse (Jinsha), Yellow (Huang Ho), Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo), Indus [...]
The Department of English, University of Hyderabad, is planning a National Seminar on ‘Personal Narratives of Dalits and their Religion(s)’ in October. Papers are invited from ‘academics, scholars, administrative officers, Politicians, Ministers and others to share their views and strengthen the efforts of the seminar.’
First, there is Charu recollecting her short breaks to various places complete with lovely pictures. Then we have Prashanth for whom it is almost a religion to travel on the weekends. Once again, makes me see a different kind of green.
Hemanth Sharma from Bangalore sings Chaudhvin Ka Chand, originally sung by the legend Rafi saheb. A beautiful rendition.
Uma writes on adversity, creativity and walking naked
“So one fine day your brain cells flash this ingenious idea at you. You act on it, decide to strip to the bare essentials and proceed to walk through the streets of the very conventional town in which you live, in protest. Although you manage to shock the [...]
“You can fit all the secularists in Gujarat in the back of two trucks,” my friends used to wryly joke last time I was here. The latest version has the Chief Minister’s office opining that one truck would do, as half of them will disappear the moment they sense danger! But those on the “back [...]
Rocky is hyperactive. He wants to do that one more movie, one more TV show, one more radio show. Rocky cannot just sit down and die. He begs for that just one more time - the one last time. “We will get back to it all” he seems to say.
He pleads - like I’ve pleaded. [...]
As a token, Apu thinks Pratibha Patil is an ‘average, middling sort of specimen’:
So Pratibha Patil is President. Yoo hoo for womenkind and all that. Or not? Considering that the role of the President in India is largely ceremonial, I don’t per se have an issue with making it a token of some kind. So [...]
Two posts on how Orkut can bring together loved and lost ones.
First up, Kartik gets sentimental after he received birthday wishes from his first crush.
This morning [..] an orkut ticker buzzed on my laptop that a certain girl had scrapped me. The name rang a bell immideately. She was my classmate in class 4, and [...]
Cuckoo shares loads of lovely pictures (I am so partial to flowers, the garden kind) of Tulips from a past trip to Amsterdam. Once again I have to say, lovely pictures.
Picture from Cuckoo’s Blog
Usha writes eloquently on female infanticide.
And this is a country where women are supposed to be seen as images of Goddess Durga and Lakshmi. What a country of hypocrites we are? We invoke our scripts and religion when it suits us and do what is convenient for us when it suits us.
With so many years [...]
Stop BIS from adapting proprietary Microsoft standards
Published by July 24th, 2007 in Science & Technology. 0 CommentsAnivar Arvind calls upon saner Indian community to write to Bureau of Indian Standards and ask them to stop adapting the proprietary standards of Microsoft. I agree with him. Open standards are the way to go. When the advanced countries are realizing the importance of open standards, we shouldn’t fall into the trap of proprietary [...]
Samanth reviews “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
Deathly Hallows relies on two chief engines to tug the Harry Potter series to port. The first is the premise that many, far too many, of the elements of Harry’s quest to kill Voldemort lie in the past. This gives Rowling space to fabricate – from the fable-like [...]
Gruhalakshmi Kumar and Yashasvini Kumar review Ela Bhatt’s We are poor but so many:
A must read. Acknowledging this to be a statement usually located at the conclusion of a book review, in the context of this book one feels compelled to mention it not only at the start of the said review but to repeat [...]
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