Posted by gargi on 29 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: India, Politics, Society
… it seems to be almost a pat sort of response. Bombs went off. People were killed, and maimed. And, a lot of us look upward to the skies and shout bastards…… it is a completely Pavlovian response.
Bastards…..Bastards……it is just that i don’t know who I am calling bastards.
What kind of people [...]
Posted by gargi on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Films, International, Media
Batman is possibly one of the most fascinating characters in fiction. His origin is universal - he could be anyone anywhere who witnessed his parents being murdered and swore that if it possible no one else will suffer his losses- he could be in any time period and still work. And, there is no deux [...]
Posted by gargi on 19 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Photographs
it has been hectic since i got back. mostly meetings, but also being stuck in traffic. i think that in the last 20 odd days i must have atleast spent 48 hours stuck in traffic . and, while i am stuck in a place that is full of vehicles emitting god knows what, and [...]
Posted by gargi on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Gender Issues, Media, News, Religion
Stuff that made me - in no particular order - think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely, with sorrow, and in a wtf mode. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure:
a) The Gender Divide exists in the work place in the US - [...]
Posted by gargi on 08 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: India, Politics, Society
… will the Right do what is right ? Rajya Dharma or Rajniti Dharma — i wonder which the BJP will follow on the nuclear deal ?
What the withdrawal of support by the Left has proven is that ‘Secularism’ - in the absence of other common ideals and principles - is not a [...]
Posted by gargi on 07 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: International, Politics, Society
.. the most powerful leaders of the most powerful nations, met to discuss the Global Food Crisis. and they of course had cheese — it was part of the 6th course — of 8 courses..
You would think that in the modern world, it would be possible for 8 leaders of 8 nations (even 16 [...]
Posted by gargi on 07 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Gender Issues, India
normally street kids don’t approach cars with their windows up and the AC on…. it is too much waste of time, they are possibly better off approaching open ricks or cars with their windows down. this girl maybe thought that i would be interested in flowers, or she saw rani in the car and thought [...]
Posted by gargi on 04 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: India
Parallel Universes — a concept in science fiction, where realities slightly differing from our own exist. For example, there may be a universe where Hitler won or one in which India remained undivided. Usually, the wall between the universes cannot be breached.
But, the world’s largest selling English language quality broadstreet has another feather in its [...]
Posted by gargi on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Cogito TV, Diary, Photographs, Print
Was in Sri Lanka for a week, for a reccie for a NGO film. I didn’t really do the tourist circuit, but saw the Sri Lanka in which people live a work. Villages & communities recovering from the Tsunami, villages and communities coping with a changing environment that can have serious repercussions on their lives [...]
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