Blank Noise Project is hosting a “Blog-A-Thon” on the issue of street harassment. It will happen on March 7th, on various blogs, as many, many bloggers, vent, rage, speak from the heart or just give you plain old information. Check out their site for an update of the blogs participating. And if you feel strongly […]
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Yoga and marketing
I have a new found appreciation for Yoga. And it’s all due to marketing, here in the US. People do it, people take classes, and understand it as a means of achieving their physical fitness goals. You have Yoga aids, like the strap, the block. You can use a Yoga mat. You can wear “Yoga” […]
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In her column for the Indian Express, journalist Tavleen Singh writes about the “India Everywhere” campaign in Davos : “It was such a seductive mix of magic and modernity that many of my foreign friends promised they would come to India this year, no matter what. When I landed at Mumbai airport I thought of […]
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In this blog Uma writes about dowry. Plain and simple, it’s not hard to understand. What is abundantly clear from the various links she has, and from the horror stories you have head from family/friends (as I have) , that in the face of weak laws and an even weaker justice system, and a “culture” […]
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In this famine of (decent) Hindi films, I succumbed to seeing “Constantine”, and “Eulogy”, two vastly different movies. Constantine, which was released a few months agon, is a horror film, a translation of the comic-book to screen. Keanu Reeves plays the demon hunter John Constantine, who’s chain smoking himself to sure death and Hell. John […]
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Namrata Joshi has an interesting article in Outlook on vulgarity making it big-time in Hindi movies. It’s now mainstream. She writes about “Kya kool hai hum” , “Maine pyar kyon kiya”, which I saw, and “No entry”, “Shaadi No. 1” which I have had the good fortune of not seeing. Categories : _films
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It’s the reign of television and television channels. As news becomes more insipid and emotions over-done on Star News, Star One offers some hope, in the form of innovative stand-up comedy shows like “The Great Indian Laughter challenge” and “The Great Indian Comedy Show”, which is styled along the lines of American “Saturday Night Live”. […]
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I’ve watched a couple of episodes of “Men Maange More” on Star One, and its hosted by Yudhishtir (or Yudi as he calls himself) a former Channel [V] veejay. Touted, I think, as the metrosexual man’s guide to gadgets, gizmos, fashion and all things hip, it elevates superficialness to an art form. The latest plasma […]
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You go out shopping, you go out for any reason, and what do you see ? Gawkers, people with ostensibly no purpose standing on the roadside, gawking. And you see them everywhere. Amazingly on every Indian street-corner, so many people with nothing to do, with free time on their hands. So, I guess trouble-makers have […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Mistress of Spices
Just finished reading “Mistress of Spices” by Chitra B. Divakaruni. This is one I’d skipped because the introduction hadn’t looked too good. But apparently there is a movie now, and since I will see the movie, better read the book first. So did. The prose is long-winded, almost lyrical, a little more and it would […]
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