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The Indibloggies are here. For those of you too cynical for such things, kindly skip this post. There is an element of good old mob control. From the site
India’s first and very own desi blog awards, the Indibloggies are publicly-chosen awards conferred on bloggers from India and of Indian origin settled elsewhere…
Indibloggers, here is your [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, India | 8 Comments »
The Ganges is alien to those who
eat rice of the Cauvery delta, he
says. She says she doesn’t care.
She just needs her starch. White
cotton, snakes its form with the
midnight wind. All is a deep shade
of somnambulist blue.
The cats near the Ghat1 are dazed
by the final flames. The milk in
their stomach curdled, and their
paws kicking dust [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Poetry and Fiction | 8 Comments »
If there’s one thing I am grateful to the BBC for, it is the fabulous Yes Minister series. It redefined the word satire. Governance was suddenly refused to closed room volleyball of words and more words. The irony of course was that it was painfully close to how heavy bureaucracies actually function. Because India did [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art, UK | 6 Comments »
My life lives in the hills, this
pleasure in details perhaps
makes me a miniaturist. Our
dog, in her blood flows Terai1,
still shivers up above the valley.
Your love belongs to the high
altitudes. It flowed from your
toes, resting under the dog’s
fawn belly. Warming her innards,
while you fed her ripe oranges.
She spends her days, wagging,
panting, moving from room to
room, in [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Poetry and Fiction | 7 Comments »
The winter in this city so far has been rather moody. It wasn’t half as cold as the previous year. But over the last one week, the wind’s bite has gotten sharper. We woke up today to see a layer of white snow over the city. Two centimeters of snow, and there are severe delays [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: London, Photographs | 4 Comments »
For some people, it’s not enough that they place their foot in the mouth. They must also grab any passing feet and insert those in the gaping mouth as well. Britain and Channel4, still recovering from “Is she stupid, or is she racist?” issue, is now grappling with another young ‘un insisting on making statements [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Media, Random Links, UK | 6 Comments »
Ever wondered what murmurs are passing along in non-English blogospheres? Amit Gupta has joined Global Voices as a contributor and is volunteering to keep an eye out on the Hindi Blogosphere. His second post titled “Terrorism in Assam and Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, a take in Hindi!” is worth a read. Amit not only links to [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices | 1 Comment »
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