Posted by gargi on 27 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Pakistan, Passing On
I was returning home in the evening, stuck in a traffic jam somewhere near Andheri Subway, when dad rang.
Dad: Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead
Me: How ? ( i meant how would gunmen get past a security cordon… would she have the equivalent of Z level security)…. but it came out as how….
Dad: With a [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
another gem from stumbleupon
Why Solar Power is On the Back Burner.
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Posted by gargi on 21 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Films, India, Media, Music
…. while Mumbai collectively chokes in the smog - is it just me or is it extra polluted this winter, my eyes simply wouldn’t stop burning & watering - I am off to the hills…
The folks at Blogbharati are celebrating their anniversary, and had asked me write something for them…..I wrote on Hindi Film [...]
Posted by gargi on 19 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Diary, Doggy Tails
Paws by Rani, Photo by Jayadev, Cigarettes by Me….
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Posted by gargi on 19 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: India, Politics, Society
17 months & one week ago :
The trial begins …… I dont’ want to see a ritual sacrifice where the judiciary gives the public a sacrificial bali ka bakra……. I would like to see due process leading to justice being done. the victims deserve at least that…. And, we as citizens deserve at [...]
Posted by gargi on 16 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: India, Society
The whole week seems to have whizzed by. Came back on Wednesday by sleeper volvo … Shaadi at Ahmedabad was fun. We were put up at the Platinum Hotel, in a place suburb called Anjali. Took lots of pics, spent time more or less in the hotel, and didn’t talk politics… Now back and going [...]
Posted by gargi on 09 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Diary
Keval meets his match, in Ahmedabad on Tuesday 11th of December. That’s where I will be. Kancheevaram and all….. catch you back on wednesday….
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Posted by gargi on 06 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: India, Politics, Society, propaganda
Today is the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition…… it is also the anniversary of a particularly unpleasant personal failure, that was ignited by the demolition….
I was a student in London when the Mosque came down with a whole bunch of Hindutvadi’s baying for blood. Do you remember Sadhvi Rithambra screeching “ek aur dakha [...]
Posted by gargi on 04 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Caste, India, Society
This from the DNA:
An enterprising NRI doctor from East Godavari district has come up with a novel idea of an all purpose and inclusive housing colony for members of the Brahmin community near Hyderabad.
Resurrecting the traditional and conservationist ambience of the Agraharam from the Brahmin predominant East Godavari district, the colony will be spread over [...]
Posted by gargi on 03 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Diary
…. wild flowers, Lonavala…..
and a very happy & a successful week to you all !!
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