When we’re bored with mainstream entertainment—movies and all–we get treated to real life entertainment, courtesy our leaders, the motors that run the nation, that decide what’s good and bad for us, and generally try to refine our tastes.
And so the no smoking scenes to be shown in films and on television diktat provides the [...]
Or Secularism is the new Word for Supporting Rape
At least in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s lexicon.
Amidst a raging debate over the fatwa issued by Darul Uloom Deoband in the Imrana case — that she cannot go back to her husband after being raped by her father-in-law — Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has expressed his [...]
And Kissinger also called her a bitch.
“While she was a bitch, we got what we wanted too,” Kissinger said. “She will not be able to go home and say that the United States didn’t give her a warm reception and therefore in despair she’s got to go to war.”
She went to war and won [...]
I found two interesting reads in Outlook:
Arun Jaitley remembers the Nazi Priestess
Amir Mir reports the match fixed between Mr. Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter and Mr. Javed Miandad’s son.
When I returned from a long-overdue trip to Waynad two months earlier, I planned to immediately blog it. That somehow didn’t happen. Before it is too late, I present my impressions of this and another, my most recent trip to the Malnad region.
The Communist Watchdog has threatened to bark again. Left threatens mass movement (ed: sic) against UPA.
Expressing unhappiness over the Centre “not listening” to Left views, veteran CPI-M Politburo member Jyoti Basu today warned a mass movement against the recent fuel price hike…
Mebbe this is old? Funny nevertheless.
To All Employees:
It has been brought to the attention of Management that some
individuals have been using foul language in the course of normal
conversation between employees. Due to complaints from some of the
easily offended workers, this conduct will no longer be tolerated. [....]
What follows is priceless. Read the whole [...]
Read the previous parts: 1, 2, 3, 4 (i & ii)
This is the closing post on the Karnad series. I’ll try and jot my general and somewhat, sweeping observations about various facets of Karnad: as a playwright, actor, and “activist.”
This is an invitation to all of you–especially those living in Bangalore–to two days of cultural extravaganza. It’s organized and managed entirely by my good friend who is a fine danseuse in her own right. She also runs a Bharatnatyam dance school on her own, and is responsible for launching the artistic careers of several [...]
In the preceding entry, I said that Karnad has turned Yavakrida’s story into a complete disaster .
A few years ago, when I was still suffering from the Karnad-play hangover, I used to relish reading stuff by, and about Karnad. One was an interview where the playwright spoke about Agni Mattu Male: The inspiration from [...]
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Secular Rape
Or Secularism is the new Word for Supporting Rape
At least in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s lexicon.
Amidst a raging debate over the fatwa issued by Darul Uloom Deoband in the Imrana case — that she cannot go back to her husband after being raped by her father-in-law — Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has expressed his [...]