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Khuda Ke Liye
Working on Sundays makes me grumpy and I still haven't got my mojo back but you should go watch Khuda Ke Liye.
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Jonesing
Some odd conversation with Bottle Imp started me thinking. Who is my favourite character in Indian writing in English? I don't know! It should be shocking but it isn't... what characters has IWE thrown up so far that you feel attached to them afterwards... as if they meant anything.
My responses surprised me a bit.
Akilan of No Onions Nor Garlic ( Read more... ) -
The Siren Who Stayed Away
Sometimes I am terribly eager-beaver about an interview and then I screw up the writing. Here is Chitrangada Singh.
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The revolution may not be televised but
There are videos now for the wierdest things. Books! IPL cricket teams. Even NGOs, that last bastion of anti-aesthetics. Some of these NGO videos are surprisingly charming.
A music video by the exec director of International Rivers
Good clean feminist fun from Feminist Majority
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These days
If you go to youtube and type 'speech' the first thing that appears is Barack Obama's landmark speech on race. Here is moving, incredible oratory.
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this samoa doesnt even have the beach
7 am is a barbaric practice. Paying a 1000 rupees to travel 40 km in a matchbox is barbaric. Journalism is barbaric. Tandoori chicken and its variants are barbaric. This land is meant for___ (insert rude local name for community that your mother looks down upon and you only utter in your most private thoughts)
I want to lie at home and squirm in ( Read more... )
