OMG! Change can be disastrous. Calamitous, even.
I mean what about the monotonous routine we all set our lives into? The patterns we respond like the Pavlovian dog to? The unerring bell that seems to add much morassic meaning to life? There is a point to the purposefull purposelessness of the assembly line after all.
They’ve gone [...]
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OMG, Change can be disastrous.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Destroying the Buzz
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It hasn’t been quite my creative phase yet, these past few weeks. First I tried to cheat with some arbit pics; and then I thought I’d cheat with some of my Twitter stuff (the #sss series) and got too busy or bored with that.
And, then there was the Buzz.
By Buzz, I don’t only mean the [...]
We are like this only!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It happens only in India!
And another…
If you do click pics that, in some ways, capture the essential Indian-ness, you know, I could host them here. If they are net-viable pixels and carry a brief note…Mail ramya_kannan@yahoo.com
Of course, being the Lord and Master of this blog, my decision on whether to use or [...]
Idjits
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aamir, education, Film, hindi, madhavan, pedagogy, Review on February 1, 2010 | 8 Comments »
At the risk of inviting an idiot joke upon myself, I’d still say I liked 3 idiots. Qualifier coming up: It is a good movie, not a great movie.
I did not have expectations of the movie, no. I did enjoy it thoroughly, yes. But do I think it is a deeply introspective/probing/intellectual movie that is [...]
Meeting the Maldivians
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve seldom been as impressed with a politician as I was with Mohammed Nasheed, the young President of the Maldives.
President Nasheed is truly the new-age politician. Honest, effective and rooted in the realities of his nation. When you ask him what his vision for his nation is, he says with his most charming smile, “I [...]
Cleaning up Old Mess – Karpagambal gets a makeover
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adai aviyal, coffee, idly, Karpagambal, kitchidi, mess, mylapore on January 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »
For nearly the entirety of my career (that would a decade and more), an assignment in Mylapore meant Adai-avial at Mylai Karpagambal Mess. A dingy two-and-a-quarter room with oily-sticky walls, chipped off tables with prominent sambar stains, crooked little steps that nearly took you into the dark kitchen to wash your hands…
In the dark kitchen, [...]
A toast to friendship.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ruchika on December 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
That Aradhna, Ruchika’s friend should fight all these years against a hostile establishment so that her friend’s rape and suicide would not go unavenged…
That Aradhna should work so that the perpetrator of Ruchika’s violation and her family’s subsequent torture, SPS Rathore, should stand before justice and be punished…
That she should come all the way from [...]
Facebook interface…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andhra, joke, ND Tiwari, Sudhir, Telengana on December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My friend T.S.Sudhir (of NDTV) said on his FB status:
Uma(Sudhir) was asked by a couple of students at Osmania University today : `”Are you from Telangana or Andhra?” Uma replied : “I am an Indian citizen.” Their response :”Oh, so that means you are from Andhra!” What have we come to?”
What did I say [...]
Avatar- Merely a reincarnation
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was not old enough to watch Star Wars when they first hit the screens in 1977. But when I did watch Star Wars finally, it blew my mind. It helped that at that stage I was a toh-tal Pantheist. George Lucas broke any conceivable cinematic mould.
Many years of Star Wars fandom later, another mad [...]
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