Meera 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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Stop calling someone a retard
Published by January 26th, 2010 in Art, Health, Prejudice and Society. 3 CommentsClueless 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to make issue-based comic strips
Published by December 9th, 2009 in Activism, Art, Gender & Sexuality, Violence and Women. 2 CommentsThat was the title of the workshop organized by the Rights Advocates group in Lucknow. Read up more here:
The outcome of the workshop was an eye opener of sorts on questions like, “What are the most pertinent issues that affects the youth? How do they articulate the issues and what solutions do they suggest?
Three main [...]
Getting ahead of the competition
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Art, Humour and India. 0 CommentsGetting ahead of the competition is a time-tested survival strategy. Where best to see it than the Indian traffic:
Dhaval’s blog has the entire discussion. :)
A normal guy, a designer and batman
Published by November 19th, 2009 in Art, Humour and Personal. 0 CommentsRamprakash has just started his new series of comics, called Hind-Sight. Go enjoy the comic:
Abendas shares his painting book with us and there are some beautiful paintings by him.
Creative Rumblings paints some photographs she comes across while surfing. I have to say that the results are quite pleasing to the eye.
Rehab Chougle posts some pictures from the Great wall of Mumbai project.
Jai Iyer is drawing autorickshaws and they are fun. If you are from Bangalore you will probably identify with it a little bit more.
Via Arun
‘yesterday was dramatic, today is ok.’
Published by June 12th, 2009 in Art, Photoblog and Photography. 0 CommentsDiti Kotecha’s photoblog is definitely worth a visit. Or several long trips.
Samyuktha PC pays a tribute to Lala Deen Dayal who ‘used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India’:
Lala Deen Dayal (1844-1905) used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India, of the British and the nationalist. This was time before automatic cameras, and definitely [...]
Art Futures Kolkata
Published by March 16th, 2009 in Art, Culture, Literature, Music, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Society and Theatre. 0 CommentsRama, fellow Blogbhartian, has started a new art blog, Art Futures Kolkata, with this admirable goal: Making Art Accessible, Relating Art to Community.
In the latest post, Rama questions the been-there, seen-that smugness of some Kolkatans:
Do they visit other painting or scuplture exhibitions of local or Indian artists in galleries or museums in Calcutta or elsewhere [...]
On women’s day Shubhangi recounts an evening with India’s two prominent ladies Kishori Amonkar and Vijaya Mehta.
They talked of defining moments when they felt a oneness with their art and which left lasting impressions on their lives. Kishori, when she sung the Raag Baageshari once as a young girl had the experience which changed her [...]
Your 30-second blogger introduction
Published by February 23rd, 2009 in Art, Blogging and Humour. 1 CommentSriks6711 has loads of funny/satirical cartoons on his blog. Here is how James Bond would introduce himself if he had a blog:
Very entertaining! Do read the rest of the posts!
Bindu shares her love for Asterix and Obelix and her love for drawing.Head over to see more of her pictures.
Bindu rediscovers them:
Now as we drove over to the public library after finding these books on the catalog online, we could remember exactly how exciting this process of discovering a stash of books used to be when we were young! Nothing has changed, and it’s been almost 25 years!
An eye-catching illustration for a children’s book by Priya, another interesting artist, who blogs here.
Go check a five year old’s creativity at this blog.
Archana, as a commenter on her blog says, ‘can’t help see art in everything around her’. Check everyday things turn into great pictures on her blog.
Nilofer Suleman is a Bangalore based visual artist.
She paints:
with her eyes.
with her hands.
with her soul..
She is inspired by:
colour.
old film reels.
emotion.
Those lines are from the sidebar of this great blog.
Kicking up a row
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Art, Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights. 0 CommentsMore 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.
… or does everyone else notice the change in Delhi? Asks Munna:
Hat tip: Mekhala
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