There are now several ways to offend various sections of the Indian public. If you are female you have so many more options than the men – oh, lucky you ! Take your pick : 1. You could speak your mind on pre-marital sex, and offend political parties, and get sued, like Khushboo. 2. You […]
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Culture in the big, bad USA
Reading Indigo Warp’s take on the Indian family, I see many different repsonses, sort of contesting differences between cultures, and subtly (or overtly) stressing that “our” culture is best, because we can readily point out the flaws in a foreign culture. However our culture doesn’t become better by criticising other cultures. And you can criticise […]
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A couple of weeks back, self and hubby are listening to this desi radio station on the weekend, and the RJ announces a desi dance party. Well, nice I think. He follows it up by a proclamation that the young folks had better be nicely dressed. Then he says something to this effect “If you’re […]
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The pleasure of a city is in it’s transportation system. Ease of use, the ability to travel where you want to go, unfettered, is uplifting, empowering. So, I love Bombay, although I’ve been crushed to pieces (like the others) in the ladies compartment of the local trains, and had a horrific time, once, when I […]
Read the rest of this entry »Hai, that love of euphemisms ! (For Blank Noise Project Blog-a-thon)
Wikipedia defines “eve-teasing” as a euphemism. And what a euphemism ! It’s actually a nice word for molestation – hear, hear ! And we need nice words for serious problems like sexual harassment, because how would we, otherwise decent people, live in sanity in our “high-moralled cultural” society, where on one hand we revere the […]
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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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »North Country
“North Country” is very “Erin Brokovich” like. Lone woman, with kids needs to feed her family. But will not back down in the face of hardship. Nice. And effective. It is ofcoure great that both these charcters of strong women are based on real life characters. Charlize Theron is Josie Aimes, who leaves her abusive […]
Read the rest of this entry »The worth of our daughters
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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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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Just finished reading “The devil wears Prada” by Lauren Weisberger, and while the book is not “literature” it’s one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in a while. It’s about Andrea Sachs straight out of college, landig a job at the most hip fashion magazine “Runway” as Chief Editor Miranda Priestley’s junior assistant. Miranda […]
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