Switchblade has found this awesome website called Freerice which promises to donate 20 grains of rice for every vocabulary question you answer correctly.
All you have to do is guess a few synonyms, and for each correct answer you give, 10 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations World Food Program (WPF) to feed [...]
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Feeding the world, some grains of rice at a time
Published by May 9th, 2008 in Economy, Food and Recommended Links. 0 CommentsStuff girls do
Published by May 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Feminism, Recommended Links and Women. 0 CommentsTania, Nancy and Sherlyn have started a new blog, which they describe as “a blog about stuff girls do, stuff girls do but never come out”. Their intro holds a lot of promise:
What to expect?
1. Some of the dirtiest secret of women!
2. A candid description of female thinking.
3. We will talk about our attitude [...]
Sita sings the Blues
Published by May 1st, 2008 in Cinema, Culture, Recommended Links and South Asia. 0 Comments Accro du thé watched the film, Sita sings the Blues by Nina Paley and is very impressed.
The film is, believe it or not, an animated, blues version of the Indian epic tale of Ramayana, this time with Sita as the main character. As an Indian who grew up watching the Ramayana on television [...]
Sukhpreet Kaur, the heroine
Published by March 25th, 2008 in Human Rights, India, Politics, Recommended Links, South Asia and Women. 0 CommentsAt a time when the debate on Sarabjit Singh is heating up, his wife declared that her daughters and she don’t want the Indian government to set free some terrorist to get her beloved back. JK at Varnam contrasts this with the genuflection of the Indian government in the recent handling of the Tibet issue.
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Although a bit outdated, the two videos on Hawkeye’s blog post have redefined choreography for me twice over.
If people have seen a better conceptualization and execution of a song to a music video than this - then they must be lying. Sam Anderson, the star of the video is my vote for the next PM [...]
Get more from google
Published by February 8th, 2008 in Recommended Links and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsI found this set of cool ideas of making great searches on Google from Digg, and you should definitely read this:
Google does live commentary too!
Indians are cricket fanatics. But its amusing to see the organizations here trying to put together tactics to devoid cricket lovers from wasting time to watch the cricket scores instead of [...]
Ujwala sketches a portrait of her friend Manish using charcoal. A must see and I hope more and more artists explore the options that ‘artlogs’ world presents before them to show case their talents online.
Bangalore Citizens’ Forum
Published by July 17th, 2007 in Activism, Development and Recommended Links. 0 CommentsShastri writes about a website that he and a few others have developed - Praja Bangalore.
Praja is a place for responsible citizens to meet, interact and discuss ideas. Praja provides a platform for citizens to know more about their city, care towards the city and participate in their city’s development.
Interesting concept - do check it [...]
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 [...]
‘Aamar Gram, Tomar Gram’
Published by April 4th, 2007 in Development and Recommended Links. 0 CommentsNandigram, Nandigram! Amit Sengupta, writing at Hard News, on the epitaph of the CPI(M)’s ‘India Shining’
Those days, in the early 1970s, the slogan used to be in a fiery rhythm, almost a melody:Aamar Naam, Tomar Naam, Shobaar Naam: Vietnam… Vietnam…Aamar Bari, Tomar Bari, Shobaar Bari: Naxalbari… Naxalbari… Literally, it means, my name, your name, everyone’s [...]
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