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CULTURE EDITOR: Deepti Lamba
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Cherry Bomb, Mother TeresaAnd The Vagina Dialogues
CULTURE FEATURES:
•Uma Ranganathan wonders about the role law abiding citizens play towards curtailing violence
• Deepa Krishnan asks whether love exists in arranged marriages
• smallsquirrel gives a salad recipe
• Doctor Bhaskar Dasgupta talks about children in a Bhopal orphanage
• Adithya comments on the subcontinental divide
- Nov 20, 2008
- When Is It The Right Time To Die?
Its like the maturing of the wine. Only the good grapes make great wine centuries past.
- Nov 19, 2008
- Dancing on the Streets, World Literature Festival Oslo, September 2008Dancing on cobbled streets with strangers at midnight in Oslo is sheer poetry
- Poessay: Rosary 18 - burning blazing fire ragesyour rage is creative, consuming / and enraged we can only bow down / and continue the destructive forays
- Dancing on the Streets, World Literature Festival Oslo, September 2008
- Nov 18, 2008
- Fitness, A Way Of Life
Most people at the gym watch their diet. Talking to them makes my resolution firmer and easier to carry forward
- Nov 16, 2008
- Temporary MatesWhen kittens get affectionate with their human surrogate mother, it's time to give them away.
- Fiction: A Few Reasons to Return HomeEach time I return to India, I get a jolt when I see the way things are done here.
- Poetry: kodak minutes - 1:22-1:42
stray thoughts captured in 20 minutes that mean nothing
- Temporary Mates
- Nov 15, 2008
- Poem: The African PoetThere sits my friend, an old friend, In the distance, in shadows, As Africa unveils Its beauty and its splendor,
- Poem: The African Poet
- Nov 14, 2008
- Book Review: A Soul of Steel by Carole Nelson DouglasBeware Holmes fans: this is the story of The Woman, from her point of view.
- Poessay: Rosary 17 - Hemashree
there is a price tag for every one - Survival of the Creative FittestShe whispered in my ear, 'you dirty sweet scoundrel, I love you too, though you don't deserve'
- Book Review: It’s the Night for LoveLove: the orchid of the East, so delicate to ingress the hummingbird’s sensitive tongue. Or the delicate Western rose so red as lips.
- Book Review: A Soul of Steel by Carole Nelson Douglas
- Nov 13, 2008
- Was Ayyappa a Tool to Fight Conversion?
Lord Ayyappa is analysed in rational context, shedding religious passion - Poetry: SensitiveA heart bleeds for a world gone all wrong where every lullaby hummed, is a grave-digger's song
- Book Review: NEXTNEXT is a novel by Michael Crichton that raises serious ethical and legal issues in genetics
- Nov 12, 2008
- Book Review: Tonight, An Anthology of World Love Poetry
Tonight indicates that the included poets are quite sensitive to the varied aspects of love, to its sensuous glory and ecstasies.
- Nov 11, 2008
- Bengaluru International Airport – A Few RantsWhy on earth can’t Bengaluru airport have a restaurant that serves Indian food?
- Swami and His FoesIf all our acts are purposeful, we no longer need to worry about our physical and mental health.
- Book Review: Romancing with Life by Dev Anand
Read the book to see a man completely in love with himself.
- Bengaluru International Airport – A Few Rants
- Nov 10, 2008
- Poetry: Dokkhiney Hawa Prabhatkiran Bose Translated by Amitabh MitraI would still say my love, Say something sweet / If only on hearing you I might get fulfilled
- Fiction: Suicide Attack They would use their traditional weapons for the attack, weapons they had used almost from the time they were born.
- Poetry: Dokkhiney Hawa Prabhatkiran Bose Translated by Amitabh Mitra
- Nov 9, 2008
- Relationships - Older And Wiser
"Tell me what it's like." she says, "Does it get better with time?" I pause and wonder what to say. Can I give her an honest - I Begin to Understand Mithila PaintingI found myself slipping into the shoes of the painter - what was she thinking, this Mundrika Devi of Jitvarpur Village, when she drew these?
- Nov 8, 2008
- Poem: black in whitewill it be the same movers / who move in the black man / in the white house
- Brothers and Sisters; Thanks for Clarifying Demographic Issues
How my doubts were cleared about the RSS - Poem: Questions & AnswersQuestions are asked for change, Opinions that raise doubt and more
- Poem: black in white
- Nov 7, 2008
- Book Review: Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas CrockfordThis book is aimed at those who have programmed in JS and have a working knowledge of the language.
- Heidi Klum - Halloween Kali
Hindus once again have reasons to get offended by the antics of a blundering Westerner. Heidi Klum dressed up...
- Book Review: Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
- Nov 6, 2008
- I Am Jill's Social MicroscopeShe's the typical nice-looking, a tad too 'healthy' to be one of the stick-insect-model-types. What strikes me is their clothes. Ah, his clothes.
- I Am Jill's Social Microscope
- Nov 4, 2008
- Whisper, There's No Such Thing As A Happy PeriodPetals? Yeah sure, twisted, stinky, nauseating petals came to mind.
- poetry: gods
in pursuit of smiling gods - Give Me a Dhoti to WearI wish we could go back to traditional attire like the dhoti or the mundu or the veshti.
- Truth and Bliss-The Hindu WayOnce the purpose was lost, many of the rituals have lost its splendour, reduced to a shell witout soul.
- Whisper, There's No Such Thing As A Happy Period
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