July 29, 2009By Lehar Zaidi Silk or the reason for my madness here’s the reason for my madness -chef emeril, food network The world is changing for me opening up unravelling like the strings of a cocoon silk smooth silk I had tied around myself covered myself with like a shell of bees and guzzling honey from my soul smooth […] July 21, 2009By Priyanka Joseph
That girl at twenty- her black hair ripples through the comb in the pride of spring — such beauty! (sono ko hatachi kushini nagaruru kurokami no ogori no haru no utsukushiki kana) – Yosano Akiko, Midaregami: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko, 1952. 2005. THE L’OREAL SALON in Chennai. I was at the […] July 17, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat ACCORDING TO THE calendar Parsis follow, today is my birthday. It is an event only family and very close friends know about, the more popular occasion being my date of birth next weekend. Of the seven people who wished me a Happy Birthday today, four followed it up with blessings for a good sasroo, […] July 16, 2009By Aparna Singh LATELY, I SEEM TO BE hearing a lot about the break-up of marriages and subsequent divorces. There was the Hiphop Grandmom writing on incompatible alliances and how they’ve led to the breakdown of marriages. Then, today, over at the F Word Blog, I read a piece on how British Tory party members want a […] July 14, 2009By Anindita Sengupta WITHOUT BEING hyperbolic, let me just say that this nearly made me upchuck my morning tea. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh subjected 151 women to ‘virginity tests’. The women were to be part of a mass marriage scheme in Shadol near Bhopal. To avoid ‘complications’, the state government saw it fit to conduct […] July 06, 2009By Meena Kandasamy RECENTLY, I PARTICIPATED in the launch function of a documentary film Pottu about the hardships and social humiliation faced by widows and deserted women in Tamil Nadu. Produced by the Kalangarai Trust which works among the widows in the southern district of Nagappattinam (particularly in Vedaranyam, Sirkaali and Poompuhaar), the 50-minute documentary attempts […] July 03, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat …AND ANOTHER ONE BACK. While the decriminalization of consensual gay sex is indeed a victory for those rooting for orientation-equality (refer to this news item), constricted notions of propriety continue to be imposed on basic choices deemed even remotely threatening to social fabric. A case in point being denim. I kid you not. Jeans, […] July 02, 2009By Anindita Sengupta
“We shall disallow travel and the mingling of songs”—this line from Jeet Thayil’s poem ‘Rules for Citizens’ makes me think about the Gay Pride Parade. Because travel is of so many kinds, much of it disallowed. At this year’s Bangalore Pride on Sunday, there was much mingling of songs as […] |
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