This movie still seems to be moving a lot of bloggers- Bibin writes:
There is a very destructive trend in India, children are trained and breeded to suceed in things the parents have failed. They are made to fight their parent’s battle not their own. In the film the art teacher shows his frustration by saying [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Secrets, secrets are no fun?
Published by December 30th, 2007 in India, Spotlight Series and sexuality. 2 Comments[This is essay #9 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for archives.]
While Bollywood is usually not the place to go for thought-provoking material, watching “Life in a… Metro” has provided me with just enough to get me going for this post. Admittedly, I am new to the field of torrid adultery as I do not [...]
Pidog contemplates.
The answer, I mostly get is that we are following the same practices that were followed a hundred years ago. Really? You didn’t have IT companies back then. So, working in an IT company is against “Indian Culture”. We didn’t have automobiles back then or cell phones, or television, or credit cards… and [...]
Messenger To My Lost Soul talks about Indian women’s personal space.
But I do have my radar and I can bet that no one matches the abilities of a hyper active inbuilt radar system to leering men like that of an Indian woman’s.
What is Chak de India about?
Published by December 30th, 2007 in Cinema, India, Media and Women. 0 CommentsRitik Dholakia explains what Chak de India is all about.
I write about this film not to recommend it. It’s not a good movie. But it is interesting as an example of how social mores, even simple ones, can be advanced through film. Since, in India, film and television are such popular media, dominating so much [...]
Thoughts wonders “when will Indian women wake up and smell the coffee.”
Tiger Cave- Mahabalipuram
Published by December 30th, 2007 in India, Photoblog and Travel. 0 CommentsBackpakker visits Tiger Cave near Mahabalipuram and brings back many pictures.
Sujoy is handing them out:
Breakthrough Performance of the Year- Female
Jia Khan, ahem! actually her left leg. Ramu loves her left leg the most. More than her right leg. If Ramu has some sort of affinity towards her left leg, how could we be left behind. Jia’s left leg from 12 ft, from 6 ft, and [...]
Islam’s fault line?
Published by December 29th, 2007 in Democracy, History, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Secularism and South Asia. 0 CommentsAtoorva wonders why?
This morning I read two old articles written by Benazir Bhutto remembering her father’s execution and the Shimla Conference . The first was very moving. It was saying more about a personal tragedy of losing a ‘papa’ than a national loss of a leader. In the same news paper I saw picture of [...]
What do the rich do?
Published by December 29th, 2007 in Economy, India, Poverty and Society. 0 CommentsDriving around Connaught Place in a BMW, Harsh tries to answer a difficult question:
On the other hand, I felt sad that a foreigner saw India as a poor country with poor people. To argue on this case, I showered some facts on him, saying that “There are more millionares in India than China, there are [...]
A Day Out at Borivali National Park
Published by December 28th, 2007 in India and Personal. 0 CommentsSmita spends a day at Borivali National Park with kids, through an initiative of Dream India and Nature Nights and has very interesting insights to share. TZP also features in the post.
Would I have been any different, if I did not have the pressure to top in class, be good at music, proficient at art, [...]
If men could breast-feed
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Culture, Feminism, Media, Patriarchy and Women. 0 CommentsFor example, it does seem to say that women are gamblers, they prefer gambling to taking care of their children. However, if you just look around you, the ad seems laughable, it is not the reality. In families with small children, it is men who go out more. An evening out, with friends at the [...]
Soumya has a picture from Uttranchal/Uttrakhand that reminds me what I am missing, living in the middle of concrete.
Confessions of a film snob
Published by December 27th, 2007 in Cinema, Personal and Spotlight Series. 4 Comments[This is essay #8 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for archives.]
Confessions of a film snob
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By Oz
“Lets go and watch this one”
I’m tired to my bones. It’s been 4 days and 3 more to go. The electrifying excitement hasn’t dimmed one bit. The energy though, is at an all time low. I need some rest.
So [...]
Benazir Bhutto, human being
Published by December 27th, 2007 in Democracy, Politics and South Asia. 2 CommentsAt this point all sorts of thoughts float through the politics of this. Why did this happen? Why was it not stopped? What could have been done to stop this senseless murder? Maybe she should not have come back? Who did this? What will this mean for the elections? What will this mean for the [...]
And more reactions:
Prathap Madhav foresees ‘dark days’ for South Asia:
With the loss of Benazir, India lost a valuable partner who has vision to mend ties with India and take her country forward.
Now, Mushraff has no option but to make a deal with former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif.
Dark days ahead for Pakistan and for the rest [...]
First reactions to the killing
Published by December 27th, 2007 in Democracy and South Asia. 1 CommentSome more reactions to Benazir Bhutto’s tragic assassination:
Pakistani Spectator reports on the anger of the people on the streets, India Report thinks the ‘finger does seem to point to a certain General’ given the circumstances…Suzanna at Bangalore Buzz finds the assassination ‘truly shocking’ and hopes there would be no riots. Churumuri asks the old [...]
Benazir assassinated
Published by December 27th, 2007 in Democracy, Geopolitics and South Asia. 0 CommentsIndscribe reacts to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto:
One of the most charismatic leaders of our times, Benazir Bhutto was killed in a terrorist attack in Rawalpindi in Pakistan on Thursday.
Few leaders evoke the sort of admiration as Benazir did. Though she is often accused of squandering her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s legacy and the fact [...]
In a hilarious post, Bikerdude explains why, even after the deadline has come and gone, one of the promised flyovers in Bangalore is nowhere to be seen.
Arun shows us his favourite photo of the year. Not to be missed.
Ramadoss Magesh tells us about Remission, a new video game that is designed to help young adults engage with and battle cancer:
The game was designed to be fun and at the same time, impart knowledge about cancer, treatment regimens and through this knowledge aims to improve one’s confidence in their ability to manager their illness. [...]
Do corpses have voices?
Published by December 26th, 2007 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Human Rights, Justice, Media, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsRadical Hypocrite looks for the ‘obvious’, the ’sensible meaning’ in Nandigram:
To be specific, two pieces of leg bones, bits of flesh and wood, all charred, were found from the first two graves. The third grave contained burnt body parts like the hip joints, spinal cords and ankles. The fourth and fifth graves contained burnt leg [...]
I know, I know it is early but Srinidhi has such funny blogging related new year (mainly) resolutions that I had to post it here.
Men of letters
Published by December 25th, 2007 in Books, History, Literature and Spotlight Series. 2 Comments[This is Essay #7 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for archives.]
Men of Letters
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Samanth Subramanian
More than a decade ago, over the course of three essays written for the New York Review of Books, Julian Barnes pondered the correspondence of three Frenchmen: the poets Baudelaire and Mallarmé, and the painter Gustave Courbet. The essays, brought together [...]
John Rambow offers you advice on where to celebrate, and escape from, Christmas in India:
And then there are the plumcakes. For folks in Bangalore at least, it’s just not Christmas time if you haven’t consumed many, many slices of these richer, heavier, and altogether better relatives of the generally yucky American fruitcake. Full of dark [...]
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