*waves goodbye*
It’s been monday here for a couple of hours now, which means my week here is over. The thrilling, insightful post I should have been writing this evening (instead of watching the Wimbledon finals) will probably be up at my blog sometime in the near future. So before I go, who else watched the finals? [...]
...read moreIt’s saturday night and I’m all confessional-y
I recently visited a friend in Hyderabad. A couple of hours after I’d arrived we decided to walk to a nearby restaurant for dinner (this was evening. Eight-ish.) and we were walking along, talking about literature or gender or football or something when a man zoomed past us on his motorbike, going in the same [...]
...read moreOn Hating Rakhi Sawant
I first saw Rakhi Sawant in an awful music video a few years ago, in which she played the bespectacled-but-miniskirted secretary to an improbably attractive boss.I don’t think she was particularly well known back then (I’d certainly never heard of her). Now she’s famous and practically everyone I know hates her.
...read more“Nudity is not a solution”
Via India Uncut, this story about a woman in Gujarat who protested against dowry harrasment by walking along a road in her underwear, carrying bangles (an important part of marriage in many parts of India) and a baseball bat. The protest (especially the baseball bat) made me smile a little, till I read the comments. [...]
...read morebook recs for children
One of the consequences of being the only literature person in a room full of doctors (parents’ friends, usually) is having to come up with endless recommended reading lists for their children. A lot of Indian parents, and I’m not sure if this happens elsewhere, seem to believe that there’s something inherently virtuous about the [...]
...read moreMore presidential elections
India’s presidential elections are a couple of weeks away (on the 18th of this month), and a woman, Pratibha Patel, is contesting. This is, of course far less interesting than the U.S presidential elections and Hilary Clinton, since the Indian president a) isn’t elected by the public and b) has very little power to do [...]
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