uropinion says female victims of crime in India are twice damned:
Amidst all the hoopla generated by the double murder case in Noida one thing that has come into limelight again is the manner in which women victims of crime are treated in our country. No matter how many strides we make on the economic front [...]
Archive for May, 2008
George Menezes would like to take Chief Justice K.G.Balakrishnan for a walk- to show him how the Catholic Church in India also practises caste:
Let us walk into the villages, where dalits live together no matter what religion they belong to.
Let us enter the hut of the Chamar family. Ramesh Chamar and his parents are Hindus. [...]
Sachin on how, why and when pregnancies occur in the movies:
It would have been interesting to see the moral and ethical dilemmas Milli is facing while waiting to blow her body up. But Sivan comes up with an easy way to aid her decision making. He shows Milli getting pregnant after her first and only [...]
Rocksea captures frogmouth (a rare bid) and cup fungi at Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary at Thattekad.
Photokada has some wonderful pictures in his blog.
Naveen writes a travelogue full of pictures about his visit to Grand Palace at Thailand.
Peringodan writes about a website stealing contents from Malayalam bloggers (blog posts and photos) and use it without notifying them. When asked to remove the content, the site owners made threatening gestures and blocked the IPs of bloggers who registered complaints. In an update he also mentioned that some of the stolen contents have been [...]
Noticed this new marketing blog: admark’s weblog. It seems to be a group blog, started by ‘10 to-be-marketing managers’, and the few posts I glanced through have a racy, interesting style- a refreshing change from the academic blandness of other such blogs. For instance, wouldn’t you like a marketing blog that asks such no-nonsense questions:
“Feminity [...]
Taffy Stuck and Tongue Tied asks: who owns community identity? Those who try to define it in a certain rigid fashion, or is it everyone who claims to belong to that identity?
In one of them, the blogger was talking smack about a coworker of hers, a fellow “Marathi maanus”, who was unable to rattle off [...]
Lekhni defends her right to buy counterfeit goods:
Three reasons:
(i) They cannot afford the brand name goods, but still aspire to owning the brand,
(ii) They believe that the price of the goods should be lower. Basically, it is a form of protest against perceived mis-pricing.
(iii) They cannot buy the original product either because it is not available or [...]
Anita is not happy with Kareena Kapoor and her size zero (um what is size zero?).
“And how much weight have you lost?”
“Ermm… a little.”
Actually, around 3 kilos, which is a lot in my book, but due to my already substantial weight, it doesn’t show. So there!
Kareena apparently has lost weight doing the same brand of [...]
Unmana builds up an interesting story (fiction) around a silver bag.
I carefully unwrapped the box (and wished he’d had the good taste to use handmade paper – or at least something subdued, without balloons or ‘Happy Birthday’ on it). And there it was, the shiny monstrosity.
Iosif Stalin lists out several reasons why a large number of Indians are escaping from India- from a seemingly endless litany of facts and figures on poverty, illiteracy, infrastructure, public services, corruption etc, two interesting snippets:
According to the National Human Rights Commission, as on 30th June 2004, there were 3,32,112 prisoners in Indian jails out [...]
Shivaji comments on how marriages, ‘potentially the most progressive social force’ have played a completely different role in India and elsewhere:
The institution has become the greatest source of conservatism around the world ensuring that socio-economic status, racial makeup, occupational backgrounds, casteist makeup and the resultant disparities, stigmas and attitudes remain as strong as ever. Only [...]
Reacting to model Ali Michael’s speaking publically about her eating disorder, Blue Floppy Hat writes about the bizarre standards for skinniness in the fashion industry and reminds us that three models have died due to eating disorders over the past two years.
I mean, I get it- models need to be skinny to look good in [...]
Rachna who was married a year ago invited some friends over for dinner.
So, I met some people for the first time, who came to a party of sorts at my place. I was wearing a suit (which, by the way, was a simple cotton, but very nice). As I opened the door for these (new) [...]
Jyotsna Shahane brings together a set of mouthwatering pics and a description of the mango festival at Bal Gandharva:
Old and young were seen leaving with their precious load in peshwis, having sniffed out the finest of the lot. I mean what is a Maharashtrian without a mango. A cloud without rain, a book without words, [...]
K Parthasarathi writes on the gay movement in India; This post comes in light of the ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of Section 377 of the IPC (anti- sodomy) in the Delhi High Court.
In our country too leading and famous Indian writers, artists, lawyers and academics are lending support to the cause of gays. It [...]
Vijay reports on the recent Junoon concert in Srinagar;
With its scintillating performance on the banks of Dal Lake, one of South Asia’s hottest rock band Junoon on May 25, 2008 evoked passion among the Kashmiri audience in a sufi-rock peace concert strengthening its claim as the most popular group ever in the history of Pakistani [...]
sur notes gets the whole story: Aarushi’s murder places ‘our wholesome, comfortable middle class values…under threat’.
its a peverse game thats playing out in front of us. the press and the police. investigations? no time for that. give us your theory, your suspects now now now. and lets put into place basic outrage in the [...]
Abhijitt clicks a beautiful picture if a firkiwala at the sea shore.
KLN Prasanna analyses the Karnataka poll results:
The planks, on which the BJP campaigned, were not their usual communal rhetoric. Rather it was “good governance”, with the poster boy of BJP’s development mantra, Narendra Modi campaigning extensively for the state. Analysts may also go insofar as to call it anti-incumbency and they would be right in [...]
If you are taking the Srinagar Leh road this summer then you are damn lucky (at least in my definition) and Vistet has some sound advice for you.
Acclimatizing in Srinagar
… doesn´t work , period. Srinagar is just over 1500 meters , which means actually living there may give you a marginal advantage , for every [...]
Neha Vishwanathan responds to the story of 14 year old Aarushi’s murder at the hands of her father, and the media reports that followed.
‘If the death of a child didn’t make me so sad, these messages may have baffled me even more. For some reason or the other, there’s this grand assumption that childhood in [...]
Prasannarajan opines, in India Today, that POTA shouldn’t have been repealed, perhaps. Abi takes strong objection to his arguments:
Why is it, Mr. Prasannarajan, that you don’t acknowledge the real reasons behind the repeal of POTA? Why should your wet dreams about how POTA will make India safe take precedence over the horrible reality of how [...]
Indrani posts a picture of terracotta figures and they are always eye catching! This link will give you a full size view.
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