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I am no expert on religion or the state.
However, when a temple goes all up in arms about women polluting their sanctum sanctorum – it pisses me off. No point in trying to force a revolution though. To me, the issue is simple. Does the state (centre or state) give any funds to Sabarimala [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Gender | 83 Comments »
Monuments are for Pigeons has an interesting post on masculinity and contextualizes it within an economy. (With some visual vignettes from The Simpsons.)
Masculinity as independence, ‘being your own man’, is a lie. It’s used most often when men are the most dependent. The sergeant, foreman or manager is happy to employ tough guys, with no [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Gender, Rants and Rambles | 14 Comments »
Sri and I – we love our Rotis. We’ve been trying to make them for a long time. Our first efforts were disastrous. What looks amazingly simple when made by somebody else – becomes a complicated, herculean task involving all sorts of mathematical calculations and physical dexterity. At some point in time – while rolling [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Food and Gastronomy, Self, Sri | 20 Comments »
It disturbs me when female chauvinism passes off for Feminism. Female Chauvinism works in pretty much the same way that Male Chauvinism does. Among other things – it can assume superiority over another another sex, it stereotypes and begins to expect certain behaviour because one is of a certain sex. So if you’re a woman, [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Gender, Rants and Rambles | 20 Comments »
There is a circus in my mouth. I feel like an elephant is dancing upside down on my upper jaw. Since it wasn’t enough that five months back I had my first wisdom tooth kill me with pain, I now have one more. It’s horrible. It hurts.
Wisdom Teeth. This pain in my jaw brings [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Rants and Rambles, Self | 11 Comments »
The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
“Launched in April 2000, to record the voices of South Asian authors for the Library of Congress’ Archive of Recorded World Literature, the project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights.” Wonderful!
(tags: literature audio southasia)
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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Blogultery – When you stop reading one blog for another, and tell the author of the first one that you still read the blog, and none other. You satisfy them by going to their blog and howering for a while so your IP will show up on their stats counter, but don’t really read anything. [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Funny, Rants and Rambles | 15 Comments »
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