Heard yesterday on TV “The nights are hard . . .” . This is from a person on the street in NYC. Not a homeless person, not a person who can’t afford a roof over his head. No, this guy is camping out, outside Apple Stores, as are many others to buy a new iPhone. […]
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Rape : An April Fool’s Joke ?
Going through the posts at feministing.com , this one made my eyes nearly pop out of my head.It has 4 college boys holding up a poster for an “Intramural Rape League” . Besides the fact that this is an unbelievably atrocious idea, I can’t imagine that there were sane people around who went along with […]
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Immorality strikes again. The culture brigade is out is full-force. The threat to good old Indian values looms large. On TV, I witness men dressed in white burning effigies of Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere. The men seem enthusistic, even gleeful at their task. Somewhere nearby (I presume) because the camera pans to her, Shetty […]
Read the rest of this entry »Shashi Tharoor : Sari fate ?
One always assumes that people who’ve achieved some eminence, some significant perch in life, will think with their brains and not their patriarchal hearts. Apparently not. In his article for the TOI Shashi Tharoor writes on the disappearance of the sari: “So why has this masterpiece of feminine attire begun fading from our streets? On […]
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With all the brouhaha in UP, there are also new ads on UP on NDTV. I say ads because there are a few, all very skillfully shot, featuring Amitabh Bachhan paying tribute to Uttar Pradesh. Along with making little of UP’s detractors, and pooh-poohing away the possibility of an increase in crime in UP, it […]
Read the rest of this entry »The new (and improved) Aesop’s fables : Ash and the tree
Lot’s of hoo-ha about Aishwarya Rai’s marriage to a tree. A much debated topic now. Plus an enterprising lawyer from Patna has filed a case against the Bachhan’s for engaging in regressive practices etc. Really, this lawyer’s service to the nation in bringing to the fore this important issue for women’s rights is heartwarming : […]
Read the rest of this entry »Can she eat sattu like us ?
Having easy access to desi channels here adds to one’s entertainment in many ways. Besides the obvious doses of Hindi film and songs etc., one also gets the chance to view Indian politicians make unabashed fools of themselves on international television. This morning, on NDTV, I watched with disgust Amar Singh’s diatribe against Sonia Gandhi’s […]
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In his article, Sorit Gupto presents a Delhi Police advertisement printed in the local newspaper : “There is a scene of a bus stop where two young persons are teasing a young lady. In that frame, five persons are also there but they are just mute spectators of the event, in which one of them […]
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