Archive for April, 2007

Learning of the Day

Posted by gargi on 22 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: And Finally ...

Orange cotton salwars will run colour. And men in my life are not amused when their white vests & briefs turn light orange!!

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Defenders of Indian Culture

Posted by gargi on 18 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: India, Politics

From 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 immigration officials after they found out that the woman who was travelling with [...]

Rape as Courtship

Posted by gargi on 17 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: India

This 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 at Baripada, the district headquarters of Mayurbhanj, 250 km from the state capital [...]

Re viewing The Truman Show

Posted by gargi on 16 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Films

Last 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 coverage, The story, for those who haven’t’ watched it, is simple. Truman [...]

Marooned

Posted by gargi on 14 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Diary

Somehow 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 rolling up my screen , giving an impression of data being broken by virus [...]