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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
- Jan 6, 2009
- Arkansaw/Arkansas
For a big city girl, the rural experience was wonderful and relaxing
- Jan 5, 2009
- Poessay: Rosary 23: MusingsWhat if nothing is the vacuum cementing life to death.
- Poessay: Rosary 23: Musings
- Jan 2, 2009
- ColourIt isn't tomato-red like the sunburnt Brits, not pink like the pretty Ukrainian stewardess, not chocolate like the African-American passenger in the neighboring cabin. It
- Colour
- Jan 1, 2009
- poetry: january 1, 2009
wish you and those around you / health and peace for the coming months
- Dec 31, 2008
- Pope Benedict XVI - Homo-Sensitive?What is it that causes homosexuality to stand out like a beacon to an 81 year old among all the ills afflicting the world?
- Poessay: I'm Not Dev Das and You're Not Anarkalisaid the bluebird to the bulbul / the simpleton is unaware / and the curmudgeon unconcerned / love has been cremated / in hiroshima
- Manjit Bawa Passes Away
One of the first painters to break out of the dominant grays and browns of the western art and opt for more Indian colours
- Pope Benedict XVI - Homo-Sensitive?
- Dec 30, 2008
- A Different World Part II: Zina ul Haq's DebaucheryThe denial of one's roots and ersatz emphasis on an alien culture led to an influx of mental and sexual depravity.
- A Different World Part II: Zina ul Haq's Debauchery
- Dec 27, 2008
- Action Sociology: Human Rights with SanitationPathakji has transcended anger and hatred to make a difference, a big difference, through social entrepreneurship.
- Moral Absolutes - A Concrete Illustration
A simple story that raises some interesting moral questions.
- Action Sociology: Human Rights with Sanitation
- Dec 26, 2008
- The Storyteller And His AudienceWhy does this happen in India, this trashing of our art forms until they become a pathetic mockery of themselves?
- The Storyteller And His Audience
- Dec 25, 2008
- FreeRice - Eradicating Hunger?FreeRice is a website where you can answer vocabulary questions and donate grains of rice in the process.
- FreeRice - Eradicating Hunger?
- Dec 24, 2008
- Poessay: Rosary 22 - A Simple Poem
the moving finger writes and having writ...
- Dec 22, 2008
- A Different World Part I : A Travelogue of SortsShe understood, smiled and let us go. Simple as that!
- 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab NyeThe tapestry of inheritance of the East is laced with tales quite unknown in the West.
- A Different World Part I : A Travelogue of Sorts
- Dec 19, 2008
- Poessay: Rosary 21: KhamOshi - Wordless
silence, gestures and words are communication tools - Moral AbsolutesWhat is the basis for the moral absolutes on which a sense of justice depends?
- Chick LitI still have trouble accepting the term 'chick' to describe me or any woman I know.
- Book Review: Maria Misra’s Business, Race, and Politics in British India
Managing agencies had so much contempt for Indians and their lack of ‘character’ that they refused to Indianise
- Dec 15, 2008
- A Love For Shoes: This Has Nothing to Do With Iraq and Yet...The scar above my left eyebrow, comes in handy when government directives ask one to mention scars on official applications.
- Not One Of The FamilyAren't they drawing boundaries between straight people and gay people in a 'them' versus 'us' scenario?
- A Love For Shoes: This Has Nothing to Do With Iraq and Yet...
- Dec 13, 2008
- Poetry: Matte Finish
Skin powdered to smooth perfection Lipstick patted dry to a subtle, near non-erasable hue - Poessay: Rosary 20 - Thanksgiving I and those fleeting moments / chance encounters really / dictate how we bow / to our copy-righted gods
- Dec 12, 2008
- Missing InSomnia“We are having a blast at the Taj tonight…You'll love it !"
- Missing InSomnia
- Dec 11, 2008
- My Clandestine Reading and Other Literary Habits
My reading habits remained clandestine till I turned 15 and one day I gathered courage.
- Dec 10, 2008
- Is Dieting Required? Ask OprahIn the end she seems to have come to the grand realization that being thin is not the end goal but to be fit and
- poem: hatred and loveif hatred was a sacrificial goat / it should be rescued and protected
- Dr. Binayak Sen – A Poem
Dr Binayak Sen, arrested in May 2007 in Chattisgarh is currently in prison awaiting a trial that has been repeatedly delayed.
- Is Dieting Required? Ask Oprah
- Dec 8, 2008
- The Dividing Roots Of ReligionsShe was barking up the wrong tree. I was already on her side.
- The Dividing Roots Of Religions
- Dec 4, 2008
- The Lord of The Rings is a Bollywood MovieTop 10 Reasons why LoTR is just another Bollywood Masala film.
- The Lord of The Rings is a Bollywood Movie
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