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My favourite blog on the whole of the internet, IndianMuslims.in, compares five different news reports on a court judgement on bomb blasts of the Chennai ofice of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh. The Indian Express comes off looking the best and The Pioneer the worst.
Child Rights and You, India’s foremost NGO working with children, invites you on their blog to voice your thoughts, feelings, outrage about children, their situation, their future and the denial of their basic rights.
Today, on World Refugee Day, instead of hosting meaningless functions in which they try to paint their hunky dory pictures of the status of refugees in India, these UNHCR officials should ponder whether, had they paid for the angiogram, Jehangir Eslah would still be alive today.
The United Nations refugee agency in Delhi has shockingly been [...]
It is this silence — ‘indifferentism’ as Ambedkar had prophetically termed the caste Hindu/liberal attitude to anti-caste concerns — that continues to echo for Badhal… When only Dalits are forced to bear the burden of articulating Dalit issues they are dubbed sectarian; the casual betrayal of Dalits by the rest of society passes for secularism.
Navayana [...]
Finally acquitted of murder charges, Amit Jogi shares his latest prison diary entries:
The Heat makes it impossible for me to leave the relatively-temperate sanctuary of my cell. At times, I feel like I’ve always belonged here: (with due respect to the psychedelic band, Pink Floyd) another brick in these endlessly whitewashed walls. Yet: by what [...]
Kamla Bhatt has a comprehensive profile of Uttar Pradesh’s new Chief Minister.
Shuddhabrata Sengupta always knew walls had ears, but his suspicion that walls had eyes has come true, and lo and behold, walls even have hands!
Two NRI bloggers, Patrix and Ash, talk about their forthcoming marriage as Patrix’s mom comes visiting. Here’s wishing them all the best.
The film turned out to be so torturous quite often that even the beautiful thumries and Rekhas mujras kind of lost their charm. Film is buried deep inside a stinking sense of nostalgia for a world that probably never existed.
Bikas Mishra writes that Gautam Ghose’s Yatra is so bad you have to see it to [...]
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The Orkut homepage looks more Indian now, says Ankur, analysing why Orkut and India take each other so seriously.
Fahad Mustafa on the stage adaptation of William Dalrymple’s much-loved Delhi book, City of Djinns:
A eunuch weaves through the audience demanding money. An incense bearing Sufi blesses us. The qawwals sit atop the expansive set, breaking into music now and then, as the drama of the city unfolds with Sufis, sadhus, snake charmers, calligraphers, kabutarbaaz [...]
Vaibhav Vats writes after the 11 April match:
After that defeat, I was attacked by premonitions of disaster. Could this be a false dawn? On the threshold of another treble, could we end up winning nothing at all? Mourinho’s words could no longer be carelessly dismissed.
Shuchi finally gather the courage to write about her father, a month after he passed away:
Of a man who withdrew from the room when I announced being a bureaucrat was too much of hard work and I wasnt game for it.
Of a father who asked whats HR all about?
Of the decaying father who urged me [...]
Peace in the Bastar plateau
Published by April 18th, 2007 in Adivasi, Democracy, Development, Human Rights, India, Justice and Politics. 0 CommentsBastar Peace Dialogue has issue separate open letters to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as well as the Indian government towards peace in the districts worst affected by Naxalite and counter-Naxalite violence. The group of twelve which has signed the petitions include local academics and journalists.
Apu describes an office colleague or two:
Make sure you also talk to your colleagues and ensure they know how mean your spouse is, how terribly your back hurts, and how badly you wanted to go to that Shakira concert but couldn’t afford it. This way they will know how sad your life really is, and [...]
Kya khayal hain aapka?
And because I wasn’t talking to her lately, I hesitated a hundred times over when I pondered getting in touch with her on Orkut. I’d looked for her and found her immediately, but a foolish sense of pride over bygone fights and the kind of reluctance that doesn’t want you to make a fool of [...]
Soumyadip C on Bheja Fry:
A wonderful concoction of everyday ingredients presented in a simplistic but hilarious manner. Everyone gets the joke and the whole hall is continuously roaring with laughter.
Merinews, teri censorship
Published by April 15th, 2007 in Blogging, Capitalism, Democracy, Media, Prejudice and Recommended Links. ClosedIf you want to start a blog, why don’t you go to Blogspot or Wordpress? Why go to a website that’s trying to make money out of your blogging?
Worse, they might censor your posts:
Mr. Inam Ul Rehman, who reviewed the film for Greater Kashmir, also posted the review on ‘Meri’ News, a news portal purportedly [...]
There has been way too much propaganda against OBC reservations, ranging from the falsehood that the Mandal Commission used the 1931 census to determine wh the OBCs are, to repeating ad nauseaum the untruth that the OBCs are “powerful castes”.
The most cunning of this propaganda has been that we don’t have the data, cannot and [...]
H1B Official Website
Published by April 10th, 2007 in Activism, Capitalism and Globalisation. 8 CommentsAnthony urges you to help defuse a Google bomb that promotes hate speech against business outsourcing from the US to India. Apparently he wants you to link the words H1B Official Website to a page other than the one the Google bomb leads to.
National anthem an embarassment before foreigners: Narayana Murthy
Published by April 10th, 2007 in India. 2 CommentsMade into an issue by Churmuri, the “chief mentor” of Infosys was forced to tender an apology.
Add that to your list of reasons why Narayana Murthy should not be Prez.
In a rather funny post, WTF suggests Baba Ramdev Trafficsignal could solve Bangalore’s problem with dogs.
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