There are some spectacular pictures on the Unaad photoblog, one of which is about the Chamba city in Himachal Pradesh. Do visit!
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Stop calling someone a retard
Published by January 26th, 2010 in Art, Health, Prejudice and Society. 3 CommentsMeera thinks that calling someone a “retard” is not so funny when you are at the receiving end, and it constitutes insensitive humour. There is a nice comic on her blog as well!
‘Retardation’ is a condition that people are born with and hence cannot help.
According to me, any casual use of and jokes involving terms [...]
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National Girl Child Day gaffes
Published by January 25th, 2010 in Feminism, Gender & Sexuality, Geopolitics, Government and Media. 11 CommentsNot just including Major General Tanvir Ahmed’s (Pakistan’s Army) picture in an ad by the Government of India, but the Dreamer also questions why there are no women achievers on that collage:
Even if we do accept the Hon.Minister’s explanation, there is something really wrong with this picture, in my humble opinion. The caption boldly asks [...]
Where to find international food in Bangalore
Published by January 25th, 2010 in Food and Travel. 1 CommentSneo has a good summary:
The Only Place This steakhouse is a favorite with the initial Anglo-Indian settlers of Bangalore and I could easily say the steaks make a sumptuous lunch or dinner. This place serves no alcohol and thus has a patronage of family crowd.
Location: Museum road, Off Church street
If you are a Bengali, you know what the month of Pous (Jan-Feb in the Bengali Saka calendar) means: puli pithe! These are ossum sweets made specifically in this time of the year. Reema presents the recipe along with photos and videos:
One such sweet is the famous Pithe. After many years all the members of [...]
Saurav Mohapatra crafts a beautiful short story which metaphorically portrays his reconciliation with his father over the course of a flight:
The turbulence outside had ceased, but I seemed not to notice. The storm still raged in my mind. It raced with questions I had not even given the slightest pause for ponder in a very [...]
Madhumita thinks that by excluding Pakistani players from the IPL, the animosity between India and Pakistan has just been prodded further:
Had the Pakistani players being included in the IPL teams, no dramatic progress would have been achieved on the India-Pak relationship. When sixty years of efforts from our various governments couldn’t thaw the ice between [...]
After marriage, should you quit your career?
Published by January 21st, 2010 in Personal, Society and Women. 0 CommentsSania Mirza is planning to quit her career after she marries. And Priya questions this:
Why do Indian women even bother starting a career if it’s something they plan to do only until they get married? There are a million other ways women can spend their pre-marriage years—they could volunteer, learn music, start a home business, [...]
Meetu says about Shahid Kapoor’s Chance pe Dance:
Flat story line.
Flat narration.
Flat dialogue.
No chance of being entertained or enlightened.
Clueless chronicles = Pyaar Impossible
Published by January 16th, 2010 in Art, Cinema, Humour and Review. 0 CommentsSahil has posted a hilarious review of the movie, “Pyaar Impossible”, through cartoons:
You know how in college there’re always these couple of guys who’ve just gotten their hands on a digicam & have deemed themselves short-filmmaking Spielbergs reincarnate? You know the type – Fab Indian… Long hair… Lenin-ish beards… Pretentious… Douchy…
Well… Now, what do you [...]
Rachna is sharing her tips for throwing the perfect party. She has learned how to set the perfect table from her mother. Here is a sample:
3. The spoons were arranged in a pattern: either inverted V or some other design. They were never just kept there.
4. The chutneys had to be 2/3 colors: these were [...]
Over at Maami’s weblog, a beautiful (and sad) story is brewing:
“I have one mother.”
Don’t smile, lady reporter with tape recorder and camera person. Many of my friends have more than one. Their first mothers were raped, murdered, jailed or turned soldiers, and now have new mothers from their neighbourhood or camps like these to foster [...]
New perspectives on 3 Idiots
Published by January 12th, 2010 in Cinema, Personal and Society. 0 CommentsId critiques some of the stereotypes propagated in the movie, and also ponders if the actual impact of a review of the education system will ever happen:
Are Indian parents that heartless/naive to drive their children into depression?
Do Indian youngsters never challenge their parents?
Why is no action taken against students who cheat on exams or violate [...]
Quick and easy, Sairekha’s recipe deserves a mention:
So we were in Goa last fortnight, taking in the sea, the sea view and the seafood. And I discovered a mouthful of heaven with goan shrimps in butter garlic sauce. The bad news is that I dont know the recipe for that. The good news is that [...]
How Yahoo is losing the battle to Gmail
Published by January 11th, 2010 in IT and Personal. 0 CommentsSiddharth has a good set of arguments about how Yahoo is gradually losing (or has already lost) its foothold in the end-user free email space:
I had registered my gmail account for many job sites while I was searching the job for my brother. One by one I started marking them as spam. And it has [...]
I meant the eyeballs, you pervert
Published by January 11th, 2010 in Humour and Personal. 0 CommentsInspired after watching 3 Idiots, Wanderlust recollects his ragging days in college:
But God forbid if you were to fall prey to the ‘Intellectuals’, or the group that majorly comprised of people who had read or heard of Catcher in the Rye, Fountainhead or Catch 22. They would never have any straight questions for you and [...]
Ranga has a bunch of prayers for everyone for the new year. He also specifies his own resolutions in the end:
The messages carry a lot of hope, best wishes and it is that time of the year when we all pray that everything turns out to be better, as if by magic, from Jan 1st. [...]
JohnyML has a nice synopsis of everything that happened in the Indian contemporary art world in 2009:
My idea is to trace the outline of Indian contemporary art events within India during 2009. The observations registered here come from a critic-curator’s perspective. There could be many events and aspects that might not find mention in this [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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