Yes, with a name like that and posters like that, and even the information that the girl in the female lead is actually just sixteen years old, I still went and watched the movie. I do love my friends.
It was, of course, mindless violence trying to parade as cinema, but the Third One insisted that [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Desamuduru
Posted in What we think on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pi says…
Posted in Life, the Universe... you know on January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…I will menopause only at eighty.
He also points out that there are some companies that have finally decided they want women in their workforces.
Both causes to celebrate, don’t you think?
I feel like Menaka
Posted in Things we do on January 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You know, the apsara who broke Viswamitra’s penance?
You see, I have this friend, Pi. Now, Pi keeps popping up on my monitor at (ir)regular intervals, which I quite like, because it means a break from work-as-usual. And I can anyway tell him to shut up and go away, and he usually obliges. Now today, it [...]
What I’ve been reading
Posted in Things we do, What we think on January 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Faludi’s Backlash.
She’s documenting the anti-feminist backlash in the US of the 1980s, as traced in popular culture: magazines, newspapers, movies, advertisements, fashion, television. And what a book it is! She’s turned staid statistics into a gripping page-turner with flair and panache and all other good stuff.
But even more than the style, it’s the substance [...]
Lives and Choices
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been reading at Feministe for a while now, and today I hit on the Reproductive Rights tag. All that reading about pro-choice and pro-life brought back a question I’d asked when I was in college, except framed a lot better now: What’s life without choice? Or vice-versa, I suppose.
I know a little about the [...]
No comments!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On this post. I’m disabling them.
You see, I just want someone to realise that I’m not being ‘nice’ so that my comments get published on her blog. I don’t think “if I like it” policies on comments are good, or even acceptable, but I’ve ranted enough about that on Canace. So, as I was saying, [...]
WTF
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2007 | 11 Comments »
is this?
Is this the kind of advice that’s getting doled out, nowadays?! This woman is essentially saying that if you want to travel in India, don’t do anything. Stay in your hotel room, and you might, just might, escape molestation. Actually, this is the kind of advice that is getting doled out. And was. And [...]
Can you tell
Posted in Life, the Universe... you know on January 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
what a person is like over the phone?
How much can accents and pronunciation tell?
Can ‘cosmic currents’ create pressure?
Was that an attempt…
Posted in ...and we get along, Uncategorized on January 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
…to get me out of fluff mode?
Sorry. Not working.
Have been reading Margaret Atwood, interspersed with Susan Faludi and Betty Friedan. Makes me feel fluffy. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. They take time to sink in, make an impression and come back out as ideas again. In the meanwhile, fluffy it is.
So, it’s Sankranti. Harvest festival. What’s [...]
Movie!!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last night. Guru. Three of us. Two liked it, one didn’t; but much fun was had dissecting it over dinner.
And no, I’m not going to review it. I’m the fluff on this blog. For now, at least. And that movie deserves a good, thoughtful review. The third one is right, though: it will be fun [...]
