Chetan Bhagat talk about the lack of credit for 3 Idiots even when the book is the base of the movie. Let me add a disclaimer that I have not read Five Point Someone and now for sure I am not going to see the movie.
The case is as simple as the makers claiming the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Demystifying India….
Published by December 30th, 2009 in Caste, Children, Corruption, Culture, Development, Education, Gender & Sexuality and Government. 0 CommentsIn the movie Swades Shah Rukh Khan says when asked about whether India is the best country in this world compared to others ,” I dont think that India is the best country in this world, but we have the ability, we have the resources” and for that to happen each and every person has [...]
Vulpineshooter posts some beautiful pictures from Ranikhet and recommends the place-
Such weekends are hard to come-by. Although, I do travel a fair bit to various places, but this weekend will always be a bit special for me, as never have I been to such a quiet and serene place which stole my heart in an [...]
Accidents but Thankfully it is only Fiction
Published by December 28th, 2009 in Blogging and Fiction. 1 CommentRohit starts a new novel and his first chapter centers around accidents and I read that long post in one sitting. I liked it so.
Many people visited me in the hospital and asked the only question I had no answer to: How did it happen? First few times I tried to explain that I didn’t [...]
Darshit likes it
Moreover, big relief is that, Raju and Abhijat Joshi – the writer duo -has taken only bits from the novel and whenever he has done that, it is done exactly same what’s written in the book. Nowhere he has tried to change that. On the other side, most of the storyline is developed [...]
2009 : A few days more…..
Published by December 23rd, 2009 in India, Misc, Politics and Society. 0 CommentsAditya sums up 2009 and is generally unhappy about how thing have turned out to be :
Well, its been very normal this year, & hence it is special.
As soon as i look back at the proceedings of this year, there’s nothing that i can recall to remember this year for an event or two. India [...]
Recessions and B-school placements
Published by December 23rd, 2009 in Economy and Education. 0 CommentsPartha gives a very personal first-hand account of what he went through in trying to get placed from campus at the business school he studied in:
There was one time though, when I was scared. That was when I was sitting in the waiting room for my day to start on the day I got placed. [...]
Justice for the High and Mighty
Published by December 22nd, 2009 in Activism, Gender & Sexuality, Government, Human Rights and Justice. 0 CommentsSudhadeep Bhattacharjee comments on the ridiculous punishment handed down to ex Haryana DGP S P S Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case :
Is the price of a young girl’s life compelled to commit suicide by a man just six months? How is it that Rathore a criminal who committed that crime in police [...]
Crying children at the gates
Published by December 22nd, 2009 in Children, Culture and Education. 1 CommentMany of us share memories of family members embarrassing us when they remind us of our behavior on the first day at school. We have thrown tantrums or witnessed the same from our children….
Pasungilidakshina tries to imagine a child’s first day at school :
There was crying from every corner. In one large classroom, there were [...]
Sonja Stark from the Pilot Girl Productions gives a few packing tips for frequently traveling women on travel assignments. Read more for such tips.
No jewelry, no sunglasses, no pajamas, no robes, no belts, no dresses, no skirts, no extra shoes. Wear only one pair of comfortable fashionable slip-on shoes like Merrills. Shoelaces just slow you [...]
Mayank Austen Soofi recently attended a Ramayan paath (reading and recitation) in Delhi and has a wonderful write-up with some pictures about it:
The Ramayan Paath is an important event in the Singhs’ social calendar. Mrs Singh’s daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter came the day before. Her niece arrived from Aligarh. The reading lasts for 24 hours. [...]
Captain Subtext critiques the review of the movie Avatar by Bharadwaj Rangan at DesiPundit:
Of course, Roger Ebert and Raja Sen (I know it’s probably heresy to take their names together) have both praised the film wholeheartedly, but there are others like Baradwaj Rangan, who seem to get a little too anal about the story. Do [...]
Onethoughton fondly recalls the recent trip he made to his home in Cochin from Chennai :
Having got no tatkal tickets, I decided to board the Kovai express from Chennai early in the morning. Though worried that I might have to risk standing all through the journey, I still decided to hope for the best and [...]
Parul remembers about her old friends from textbooks by Russian authors, and specifically Arkadi Gaidar. It is fascinating to read how some stories set in far-off lands like Moscow can affect a child’s psychology:
For a young, impressionable mind, the ideals of socialism and the inherent flaws of communism were all things for much later (like [...]
Ashtanayika – eight kinds of female protagonists in dance
Published by December 19th, 2009 in Art, Literature and Women. 0 CommentsAnandita has a lovely compilation of the Ashtanayika or the eight different kinds of female protagonists and how they are depicted in dance forms:
Jai Deva’s Geet Govinda talks beautiful about the Ashtanaikas. I haven’t yet read it but i had a chance to attend a workshop on the Ashtanayikas conducted by my dear teacher. She [...]
English speaking and elitist ….
Published by December 17th, 2009 in Culture, Education and Language. 1 Comment6 AM Pacific cites Chetan Bhagat who in a recent speech to the British Council has classified people into two groups :
One, which he calls E1, is proficient in English and gets all the good jobs. The other, E2, is familiar with the language but is not proficient. E2 is ten times the size of [...]
Vikram Nandwani is an amazing caricaturist. He was also the driving force behind “Save the Tiger” initiative. You might have seen his political cartoons blog at point blank, and now he has started a caricature series called “Verry India“. In his own words, “Verry India is a caricature series on daily life in India by [...]
Roop finds her photo as a bride peering from a Punjabi magazine pages in an article with which she thoroughly disagrees! Of course they plagiarized it from the net.
It might have been SOME consolation if I agreed with the views of the article that they posted my photo along with but it angers me even [...]
The other Mumbai
Published by December 15th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Media and Society. 0 CommentsMetallica Bhakt is making a documentary film on “Homosexuality in Urban Mumbai”. Read on as she describes her visit to the “Red Light” areas of Mumbai as part of her research. Yes, that Mumbai also exists:
After the interview, we left the place and were waiting for a cab. I managed to peep into one of [...]
The eight phases of a relationship
Published by December 15th, 2009 in Humour and Personal. 0 CommentsEnchanting Anki has a list of eight phases of a relationship and what is the emotional cost attached with each:
3: STICKY–> Evident form the term itself, Like guy says ” Bahut chaat ti hai yaar….bathroom bhi jaata hu toh bata ke jaana padta hai ” and girl says to her friends ” aree apne kutte [...]
So what if someone is a Ghar-Jawai?
Published by December 13th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Personal, Prejudice and Society. 2 CommentsAnju Gandhi thinks the term “ghar-jamai” and its negative connotation is an anachronism in a so-called gender-equal society:
I think I am drifting from my topic of GHAR JAWAI so coming back to it once again, why not treat the son in law as part of your own, like your son ? Treat him like one [...]
Mayur was tricked into one, just before his marriage. Read more of his hilarious account:
The last time I did one was when I got married. A guy at an upmarket salon in Nagpur had tricked me into buying a ‘Groom package’ and as any other ordinary customer, I fell for the supposed ‘wow’ I was [...]
Answers to: “Why do we need a separate state?”
Published by December 12th, 2009 in India and Politics. 1 CommentRaj has compiled a set of answers to that question: “Why do we need a separate state, Telengana”:
d. Nagarjuna sagar dam is built in Nalgonda district which is in Telangana but majority of the water from the dam is used for Krishna and Guntur district. The original dam was supposed to be build much ahead [...]
At the India First-Hand blog, they believe the issue demonstrates nothing but the impotency of the government:
Both the State of Andhra Pradesh and government of India made strategic mistakes. The issue of Telungana has been going on for many years. The people who are behind these movements like KCR have not produced any valid reasons [...]
The psychedchick has had a fight with her brother and writes a sweet post trying to make up:
But somehow, it just feel wrong. And no, it isn’t because of my ego. But our relationship is the only relation in the world, I can take for granted. I still remember the days when we used to [...]
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