Learning of the Day
April 22, 2007Orange cotton salwars will run colour. And men in my life are not amused when their white vests & briefs turn light orange!!
Month: April 2007
Defenders of Indian Culture
April 18, 2007From today’s Express: A BJP MP from Gujarat was on Wednesday detained at the Indira Gandhi international airport in New Delhi for allegedly misusing his wife’s passport by taking another woman.Babubhai Katara, who represents Dahod in the Lok Sabha, was detained by…
Rape as Courtship
April 17, 2007This from today’s DNA: A 24-year-old undertrial in Orissa has married a teenage girl whom he allegedly raped and got pregnant a few years ago. The traditional tribal wedding between Padmini Murmu, 16, and Khaira Hansda was solemnised at the Circle Jail…
Re viewing The Truman Show
April 16, 2007Last week, while the PC was playing dead, I re-saw Peter Weir’s, almost prophetic, The Truman Show Long before (well actually, a couple of years before) popular reality shows that dot the tv landscape, or the 24 by 7 Big Brother style…
Marooned
April 14, 2007Somehow having the home computer down, even if you are networked at the workplace — makes me feel cut off, marooned….. The Video card died. It just got up one day, sputtered and breathed its last, leaving a whole bunch of binary…