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- Archives: September 2009
- Anand Jon Alexander Sentenced To 59 Years Of Imprisonment
Anand Jon gets 59 years of imprisonment of sexual battery and rape of minors and women.
- Poessay: Rosary 32 - These Are Not My Words
lips clenched, feelings parched / imagination wingless, words in free fall
- NovelRace Week 8: So Much In A Name!
I've changed the name of one of the characters following a discussion with a friend about what he picturizes when he hears the name.
- Film Theory in Pakistan: Recognizing the Need for Theory
There are parts of the world where writing meaningfully about films has generally been deemed as a subversive indiscretion.
- The Bombing of Pan Am 103: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle.
"They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear..."
- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Reddy Still Missing
Search operations have been on all day, but there is no official news yet of either the helicopter or the 60-year old Chief Minister.
- YSR Reddy's Mangled And Burnt Helicopter Found
Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy dies in chopper crash
- Mom's Guide To Not Losing The iPhone
I lost my iPhone while traveling over the weekend. No, I misplaced it and then some female stole it.
- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy Dies In Helicopter Crash
He leaves a mixed legacy
- The Issue of Rifqa Bary
There is a lot going on here, and it is hard to know who is telling the truth.
- Media - Praise Only After Death
The Media reflects the signs of an increasingly over-suspicious and negative attitude breeding in our society.
- Lizard Tree - Tales from Gwalior
a lizard creeping has grown a tree
- Nawwab and I: Tu Jo Nahin Hay
Dogs do not smile, laugh or smirk
- Poetry: Mdantsane - Still Breathing
the hospital wall catches a permanent tan too
- NovelRace Week 9: Taking A Stand
We, the writers are human too. We will bring our own perspectives, our prejudices into it.
- Sleepy in Seattle
A man once said, I lowered my head to increase my salary, I think he wasn’t completely wrong.
- Marx Shrugged: Introduction
What exactly is Marxism and what terrible things does it have to say about capitalis
- Dear Brother Internet
Till the day he discovered that Savita bhabhi was actually a horny old man.
- Movie Review: Antichrist by Lars von Trier
The film opens with the pelvic thrusts of William Dafoe ("He") and Charlotte Gainsbourg ("She").
- Every Drop Makes An Ocean
It felt like society was addicted to, hooked on the Profit+Power. Like a Cocaine fix, even knowing that it is eating up our insides
- Beyond Words
There is an immense treasure of Intelligence within and out there, that lies beyond the knowledge of books and beyond the chatter of our own
- My MT Manifesto
As a curator and critic, I will bring forth numerous ideas and contexts within which I will present a chosen number of individuals whose artistic
- Movie Review: Love, Aaj Kal - So How, Aaj Kal?
When men of my generation were in their youth, they were seriously traumatized by "Fatal Attraction"
- William Sharp of the Scindia School - Tales from Gwalior
Was it because destiny had decreed him so brief a span that this north country boy possessed a natural yet almost uncanny insight into the
- Sachin Tendulkar - Twenty Years On
What we saw was what we have always seen. True class, from a man who is a credit to the sport he represents.
- Seeing Islam in the Right Political Perspective
Concepts like 'Right to ridicule' are as much alien to the Islamic world as the concept of 'Group rights' is to the Western world.
- Comfy Nook
There I sit everyday, Sometimes almost through the day and sometimes for a few minutes,
- Satire: Super-califragilisticexpiali-stitious
The members of the association of Progressive Indian Women (Bharatiya Unnatisheel Mahilayen a.k.a BUM) were livid with rage.
- Apple Announces New Rocking iPods, Video Camera, And More
The best part of today's Apple iPod Event came at the very beginning.
- The Tussle Between the Radical and the Conservative
We need a conservative approach, but radical new ideas. We need a stable structure with a radical mindset.
- Poetry: sign of times
the single lane expanded to two / then four...weaving a web across towns / with their main streets / mcdonalds and walmarts
- Musings of a Fractured Sunset, Tales from Gwalior
and you would have said kya itni door isi liyey ayey.....
- Easy and Nutritious Spinach "Pesto" Pasta
This is a very simple recipe for a pasta dish that is chock full of iron and other good-for you things.
- Lessons From 9/11 for India to Prevent Another 26/11
The Indian media had no hesitations in billing it as India's 9/11
- Chances, Choices, and Chemistry
The secret code I use to refer to the process of meeting an eligible bachelor is 'A tray session'
- Turkey Sausage
It is heartening to note that the judicial process will take its time and not rush into a decision half-cock.
- Nawwab and I: September 11
It must be this day in 1906
- Arctic at Risk Because of Global Warming
Ice levels down, animals and native human population getting affected
- Iran Nuclear Issue - Another Attempt at Dialogue
Iran has most likely done the calculation that it will be able to pursue its nuclear quest through a measure of playing one country the
- Jet Airways Strike Ends - Victory for Labour
It remains to be seen how long flights will take to return to normal, and whether this will have a lasting impact on Jet Airways'
- What Women Want
A rant on the needs of the hot blooded Indian man
- Movie Review: Julie and Julia - For The Love of Julia
The movie also left me with a thought, about our love for food, every Indian's love for food.
- Creation is a Vibration
Vedanta and its philosophy of creation and existence has affected the debate in Modern science more than once.
- Phone, A Friend?
Nature's way of telling the doubters to suck it.
- Tweeting the Kampala Riots: Access to Information
There is a gap in communication and there are ways to be able to fix that. You could easily be in the wrong place
- Memories of 9/11
Over the years some people ask why is 9/11 so important, when innocent people all over the world succumb to bombs all the time.
- India Defeat Sri Lanka in Compaq Cup, Sachin Scores 44th ODI Century
The Indian success streak in world sports continued unabated today in Colombo.
- Book Review: Living Green - The Missing Manual
The book has been written from the perspective of a person living green.
- ODI Cricket: Then and Now
It is widely acknowledged that ODI cricket is under threat from the ever-increasing popularity of the T20 version of the game.
- How Good are the Preparations for the Commonwealth Games?
Tentative, no absolute words of confidence.
- Mdantsane, South Africa - Poems Of A Black Township
a river of so many people touched the sun the sky with their fist once.
- Poetry: chasing gods
disconcerted or discerning / we differentiate
- Movie Review: District 9
Thus begins a relationship - functional and detached for most part, but evolving into much more, but not in a very palpable, you-love-me-I-love-you way.
- Chief Justice of India Summons CJ of Karnataka
Serious charges of land grabbing and other "irregularities" levelled against P.D. Dinakaran, Chief Justice of Karnataka, Bangalore.
- Kashmir: UN Plebiscite is the Need of the Hour
Till date, we have not kept the promise made to the Kashmiri people to hold a UN Plebiscite in Kashmir to allow them their right
- US Open 2009 - It Must be Love
A look back at the US Open, where sport succumbed to love.
- Mall Hunting
Retail therapy, obviously doesn't last for long. For there is always something better to be looked at and desired.
- The Shadow of the Great Game: Partition of India & British Strategic Interests
Lacking the effervescence of bubbly champagne his book can be best described as a vapid rethreading of other people's books.
- Iranian President Ahmadinejad Denies The Holocaust Again
The evidence is overwhelming, and people really have to be dumb to declare it a myth.
- How to Make a Mockery of Austerity
Why should there be an austerity drive? Why not have a performance-based pay structure for Ministers/MPs?
- Is This The Kind Of Progress We Want?
How can we ensure that progress enables everybody to live a better life?
- Book Review: The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
It suffers from an unbearable awareness of its assumed self-importance, and tries too hard to conform to expectations.
- God, It's Deepack
The outside of the airplane: lifeless, as if stricken with a chilling malaise, cold and barren, a reminder of death.
- Quacks & Gullible Folk
The quack said, 'You have come in time, otherwise this black hairy thing would have grown like a tennis ball in the stomach and killed
- What Is Love?
Why does the heart feel so empty without love? Why does existence seems so hollow and meaningless without it?
- Fiction: Bitter Truths Over Coffee
"You stupid cow! What do you know about literature or art? You fat burger eating filth"
- Lest we Forget - Truth and Reconciliation in Kandhamal
Our Lord teaches us not to hate. We do not hate our enemies, but Fear is real, especially in Orissa’s Kandhamal district.
- NovelRace Week 10: Everything But The Novel
An even bigger author who made a completely unrealistic change to the lives of one of fiction’s most popular characters and the whole world bought
- Vidyaarambham : Initiating Children to the World of Knowledge
The writing on rice grains symbolizes acquisition of knowledge that leads to prosperity.
- Release Kobad Ghandy Now
Whose disease infested body would crawl out of a hut only once to share the last sun, people like Kobad Ghandy would forever be there.
- Attending Symphony Concert - Gil Shaham and Carmina Burana
A long-awaited first visit to a symphony concert was just the moment I knew I was going to cherish for a long time.
- Google Launches Sidewiki - Changing The Perspective
This can be the ultimate CRM tool, aggregating feedback conveniently juxtaposed with the brand/site.
- Mdantsane, Poems of a Township
what is liberation so precious now
- Nawwab and I: Going Green or Black and Red
t: Tell me N why are politicians called lotas?
- Travel Review: Sanchi & Around
A piece of history, which thrived, was lost, to be re-discovered by later generations, looking for their heritage.
- In Death We Differ
We apparently take sides with the powerless. The question is who is powerless?
- Fiction: Toad Talk
"I was in a Jacuzzi and you threw me into a swimming pool."
- The "It's Complicated" Relationship
Hell, I feel like ‘It’s complicated’ applies even to my career.
- For God's Sake
Pray because you believe, and then ask him for what you want.
- ICC Champions Trophy: India Outclassed by Pakistan
The Indian side was let down by both the bowling and uninspired batting, and this was Pakistan's day to shine.
- Game, Set, Match - The Best Decade of Tennis
A look at the past and future of tennis this decade
- Approaching Secularism of a Different Kind
We have to pay a high cost for what passes today in the name of "Secularism"
- Book Review: The Last Jews of Kerala
The author recounts how the fortunes of this once vibrant community were destroyed by apartheid, inter-breeding, mental illness and the exodus from Kerala
- What Is Love? Part 2
I honestly don't know what "true love" refers to. Love in itself is true.
- Roman Polanski, Child Rapist, Supported by Global Film Community
Would they feel the same way if this happened to one of their own near and dear children?
- The Writer's Dilemma - Print Or Online Publishing?
Getting tons of money due to my writing would be good as would a villa somewhere in Brussels, but those are pipe dreams.
- Animal Husbandry, a la My Wife
When she makes some strange noise, the dogs would follow her wagging their tails, like the rodents followed the fabled Piper.
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