More updates on the One State Solution Week 2008, White Ribbon Campaign’s IRC tête-à-têtes continue and with more gusto than ever before!
Join them and some entirely new host characters at their room on the internet relay chat channel, IRC, at the Dalnet Servers.
Archive for November 21st, 2008
Kicking up a row
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Art, Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights. 0 CommentsLighting up a village
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Adivasi, Development and Economy. 0 CommentsPrem P. Verma of the Jharkhand Alternative Development Forum writes:
Yesterday, November 15, 2008, the day Jharkhand was born, was the most satisfying and happy day of my life since on this day our organisation, Jharkhand Alternative Development Forum, with the active help and guidance of Dr. Mithilesh Dangi of Azadi Bachao Andolan, installed and put [...]
Emma doesn’t like the Tata Sky ad because it reinforces gender stereotypes:
It doesn’t end there - Aamir comes back from work, arms filled with grocery bags and all ready to make tea. And then the truth is revealed - why has Aamir been so “nice” to Gul throughout the day? So that Gul would allow [...]
Child Sexual Abuse
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Children and Poetry. 1 CommentFrom the poem Bread.Pieces, by Pali Tripathi:
Man. Thin. Tatters
Eyes. Cold. Piercing
Gazes. Afraid. Numb
Sound. Loud. Harsh
Child. Tears. Gurgle
Bread. Pieces. Gone
Faces. White. Wounded
Mouths. Pained. Dry
Door. Shut. Bang
This poem won the recently concluded Blogeratti Contest for best poems on Child Abuse. Read more about the contest and about Elaan- Combat Child Sexual Abuse Community.
‘The Indian society’, he said, ‘has not double, but triple standards. One for me, the other for my wife and a third for the other fellow’s wife’.
Read Skabeesh’s friend’s insightful explanation and solution.
If you’re interested, you’ll find a comprehensive list of active bloggers at The Afghanistan Analyst. I’ve just started checking a few and I found Safrang, The New Afghanistan (by Azar Balkhi) Afghan Blog (by S.J.Sharyar) etc., very interesting. Will go back.
Late 2004. That was when I started getting bored with orkut because there were just a handful of Indians in the social network site.
So I discovered blogging and the Mizo online community.
The first hurdle was selecting a good online nick, because I knew that online nicks were something people are associated with in the real [...]
‘The fragrance always stays’
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Children, Poverty and Society. 0 CommentsLet me end the suspense. Here is what happened: last week I got a phone call from a well to do up market lady who lives in one of the poshest colony of our city. She asked me to send someone as she had things to donate for the children. In spite of having been [...]
Ravi clicks this picture of Bhim Pul in Mana village near Badrinath. To read the entire post and for more pictures just hop over.
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