Blogger reactions on the dazzling Ms. Nene’s come-back movie “Aaja Nachle”.
Telugu Cinema Bioscope is completely bowled over:
The movie is an amalgamation of colour and culture. Everything is done to perfection in Aaja Nachle. [..] Madhuri Dixit is spellbinding on-screen! Her acting and dancing skills are simply exemplary. [..] All in all, Aaja Nachle is super-hit [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Arun G S has a nice voice and he has posted some beautiful songs in his music blog. Listen to his latest an Ayyppa devotional song originally sung by Yesudas.
Fellow Blogbhartian Bhupinder on the Universal Digital Library Project completing the digitization of 1.5million books.
A scan through the list of some books (on India, for example), makes one feel as if one is walking down the dusty aisle of an Indian university library. Most of the books are evidently old, belonging to the late 19th [...]
Wanderlust captures the widely accepted Nirvana which comes to us in the form of Maggi noodles:
For most bachelors with severely demented cooking abilities like yours truly, Maggi has always come as a saviour in moments of crisis. It was there for us in those hostel days when the mess gave us zebra fodder in the [...]
‘We are strangers now’
Published by November 29th, 2007 in Cinema, Human Rights, Language and South Asia. 0 CommentsBonbibi is moved by ‘Swapnobhoomi’, a film on the plight of Biharis in Bangladesh:
These people are usually derogatively called ‘Biharis’ even though they also come from the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, of West Bengal, of Madhya Pradesh and distant Hyderabad. They came from various places and they came for various reasons. Some came to [...]
Silverine reflects on her education in English; said introspection was prompted when someone told her “You are the greatest blogger Silverine”.
12th Standard: The evaluator was sick. She felt worse when she saw my paper. She gave me passing marks so that she didn’t have to go through the horror of reading the entire paper.
First year [...]
Uma feels two recent films depict two different ‘Indias’:
As portrayals of depravity, greed and coldbloodedness, “Manorama” and “Johnny Gaddaar” exemplify a new noirish sensibility set in contemporary India. In their different ways, they are filled with an atmosphere of unease, even menace: the insect in the chai, the tawdry hotel room, the pounding on the [...]
Happytraveller gets her hubby to do a guest blog for her and he gives a quite an engaging account of his visit to the Great Wall of China.
Praful Patel, Vice President of the South Asia region for the World Bank, tries to ‘trace the small changes’ in the lives of Bhavnaben and her family in the Rann of Kutch:
But, there are many pitfalls in the climb out of poverty. Fourteen year old Chandrika, the eldest daughter, had been pulled out of [...]
In the Land of Seven Sisters
Published by November 26th, 2007 in Adivasi, Human Rights, India, North East, Society and Women. 3 CommentsBadly Drawn Girl writes on the stripping and beating of an adivasi woman in Guwahati yesterday.
peaceful protest on a street of guwahati (assam) turned violent. an adivasi woman was stripped naked, chased after, kicked repeatedly on her breasts and vagina and paraded down the street.This news played over and over again with a caption [...]
A close brush with democracy
Published by November 26th, 2007 in Democracy, Government and India. 0 CommentsAmar Mainkar tries to become a voter:
There in the heat of the afternoon sun, I was closer to the fabled ‘real India’ than ever before. And this place was just behind my house! The scene inside represented a typical government office. Too many ‘officials’, doing nothing much. Application forms just being thrown in the boxes [...]
Anup writes about traveling from Shimla to Kaza (Spiti) and has some amazing pictures.
The Juggernaut pens an eloquent ballad for his beloved. Lets just say he chose a different rhythm for his verse from the iambic pentameter:
Forget my past for my life is MARKOVIAN
Forgive my follies i could have been NAIVE BAYESIAN
BACK-PROPAGATE my love ,from this misery, set me free
My life swings in the branch of your DECISION [...]
Nationalistic politics and feminism
Published by November 25th, 2007 in Feminism, India and Politics. 0 CommentsSwatie analyses the politics of nationalism in pre-independence India.
Among the loudest contemporary voices protesting against such a political schema was Rabindranath Tagore. Though Tagore’s focus was largely on class and caste, and not gender issues, he is important for this argument too. A freedom movement, according to Tagore, that seeks to gloss over internal differences; [...]
Vijay tells us why entrepreneurs are important:
Why do we still keep doing this then? Because, there is no other choice. It this only in this journey that we find our heart truly beating to its life. Life is too slow or too dull otherwise. Life simply cant be otherwise. We, as entrepreneurs, keep chasing this [...]
Hernando de Soto
Published by November 24th, 2007 in Capitalism, Development, Economy, Government and Poverty. 0 CommentsSeetha interviews Hernando de Soto:
You are perhaps the only economist who has been the target of bomb attacks.
That probably means I had a meaningful and very radical message. The Other Path provided very clear alternatives to the ultra-left Shining Path movement in Peru. The book was taken up as a motivational force by many groups. [...]
Why democracy doesn’t work in South Asia
Published by November 24th, 2007 in Democracy, Development, Economy and South Asia. 1 CommentSrini asks- what explains this high degree of political turmoil in South Asia?
While preparing myself to answer, it struck me that today’s South Asia is in a state of utter turmoil. In Sri Lanka, the ethnic conflict had reached a point of no return, with both the antagonists — the government and the insurgent [...]
Land rights for sex workers
Published by November 24th, 2007 in Activism, Community, Feminism, Government, Human Rights, Justice, Politics, Society, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsSonia draws attention to the Janakeeya Samithi’s attempts to oust sex workers from Bangladesh Colony in Kozhikode.
Most of the sex workers had built houses there with their savings and their children are studying in the nearby schools. Usually they come to the town to do sex work and return home early in the morning. Now [...]
Rahul Banerjee translates a few poems by Vaharu Sonawane, an adivasi poet from Western India, and points to more translations available on the internet.
My tattered quilt
soiled.Inside the quilt I remain
suffocatedat
its sour smell nose
twitching up and down
turning from one side to the other
nose buried in the quilt I kept
suffering its sour smell.
In this same quilt
ancestors had [...]
Choxbox on the ghodiyu, a contraption guaranteed to put a baby to sleep!
These things don’t ‘belong’ to any family - they are passed on and on. The minute you tell the world that you are expecting a baby is also the minute you start hunting around for someone who has a little one who will [...]
The Tamil Punkster is going to host the 49th Carnival of the feminists and is calling for submissions.
I would love it if you could send me or tip off posts related to privilege and the politics of gender roles or both, but please, other posts are equally welcome! This is in no way an official [...]
‘8 Reddis massacred by 400 Dalits’
Published by November 23rd, 2007 in Caste, Dalit, Human Rights, India and Justice. 0 CommentsIf Reddis, instead of Dalits, had been murdered in Chundur (Tsunduru/Tsundur) in 1991, Yekalavya Warrior wonders what the verdict would’ve been:
That is from books. Reality is something different. The IPC says all the 400 deserve the same punishment. Then why I am seeing different numbers over here. How can this case should not be called [...]
Sparks
Published by November 22nd, 2007 in Dalit, Human Rights, Media, Politics and Women. 0 CommentsKay is disappointed with news channels celebrating minor scoops as ‘achievements’ and ignoring real news:
I am surprised that no medium has taken note of the development. SPARKS proposes to be the voice of young Dalit women of India.
The newsletter aims to make sure that each issue contains “analytical articles, reports, poems, and other form [...]
Bijapuri has this compelling set of pictures from Pakistan at Flicker. Have a look.
Kunal Chattopadhyay takes strong exception (link via Sanhati) to the statement on Nandigram whose signatories include Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and … and our own Tariq Ali.
And yes, on 14th November, despite attempts to turn the protest demonstration into an “apolitical” show by some high profile figures, there were banners and posters, like the one [...]
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