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Two seemingly unrelated posts. One on how the notions of ‘dark skin is indicative of inherent evil tendencies‘ seems to permeate an animated series for children, and the other on young kids dressed up by their parents – in clothes which are inappropriate.
Some of us are saved from the fate of low self-esteem thanks [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: People, Rants and Rambles, Self | 4 Comments »
Mad Momma does eat dinner on a table with napkins. She also resembles this vision of Mother India, two kids – one crawling over her knee, and the other never leaving her neck. But here’s the surprise. Both MumbaiGirl and I looked shocked at how small the Bean was. A few days back, in a [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, People | 2 Comments »
Thank you Lucy Hooberman of Mentoring Worldwide and the BBC, for a wonderful lunch last week at Lemonia at Primrose Hill. They had wonderful vegetarian options for the veggie hungry desi. Even on that exceptionally hot day, I pigged over a range of starters. The place was airy, beautiful and very Mediterranean. You almost feel [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Food and Gastronomy, London, Online Projects, People, Random Links | 3 Comments »
Last year at the Global Voices conference, Rebecca raised a peculiar toast – “This whole Global Voices thing is just a grand conspiracy to ensure that we always have someone to have dinner with in every city of the world”. I am just beginning to figure out how true this is.
Blogging doesn’t always increase your [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, London, Media, Online Projects, People, Random Links, Self | 8 Comments »
Truth is that most of my friends are the ones who transcend the virtual world of blogs and become frequent features in routine and conversation. Rachel was found recently when she joined Global Voices as the Managing Editor. I finally heard her yesterday on a podcast with Kamla.
Rachel blogs at Frizzy Logic. So today lunch [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Global Voices, People | 3 Comments »
So yesterday, three London based headless chickens went to Dover. Among other things, locals reported that half the grass in the Dover castle lost their lives under their combined weight. Dover in the first few hours was a bit of a disappointment. They don’t make good coffee down there and our breakfast came deep fried. [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: People, Photographs, Travel, UK | 2 Comments »
An update on Hao Wu.
An online petition has been started. From Global Voices
Rebecca launched the letter writing campaign earlier today, and we’re encouraging readers to write to their national governments, to the Chinese ambassadors in their nation, to their local newspapers, and to Chinese President Hu Jintao. Her post offers key pieces of information to [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, People, Rights | 2 Comments »
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