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Archive for February, 2007
Ooh!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Flitting from flower to flower
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ever heard abhi na jao chhod kar, yeh dil abhi bhara nahin? Of course you have. Do you know all of it? I do, but that’s one of the few songs that I bothered to learn. That, and kaanto se chheen ke yeh aanchal. The thing with learning the words to songs is that there’s [...]
Why am I surprised to find
Posted in What we think on February 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
that Karan Johar is a misogynistic git?
More random channel surfing last night resulted in my alighting on Koffee with Karan Season 2 – an episode featuring Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra. And of course, the little bit that I saw had to have Hrithik mentioning how much Priyanka eats, and Karan Johar saying something to [...]
Love
Posted in What we think on February 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Random surfing of TV channels while lying exhausted on the couch produces this gem, which I’m going to transcribe as closely as I can remember:
(Shot of young girl dressed in very short silver skirt and silver halter top descending a large and very ugly spiral staircase while older woman wearing zari-filled pattu saree and heavy [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in Some of these rhyme on February 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I always thought D.H. Lawrence was a better poet than novelist, and he proves me right again.
The Elephant is Slow to Mate
by D.H. Lawrence
The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate;
he finds a female, they show no haste
they wait
for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts
slowly, slowly to rouse
as they loiter along the river-beds
and [...]
Traffic Signal
Posted in What we think on February 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On a lazy Saturday with nothing to do, I still managed to almost-miss the movie… friends, I tell you! We missed the opening credits and the beginning of the introduction, but not much else. I’ve seen Corporate and Page 3, so I suppose now I’ve seen the entire ‘trilogy’, (though why people don’t include Chandni [...]
Sluts v. Studs
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Via Feministe.
Numaish
Posted in Things we do on February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was quite surprised at how many people don’t know the meaning of numaish. Haven’t you heard of a badan ki numaish? In all those Hindi movies where the hero marches up to snooty heroine wearing short skirt and puts the fear of rape into her and thus cures her of her tendency to do [...]
S.C.U.M. Manifesto
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Here.
I’m singing the glory of S.C.U.M.
Considering what happens when I sing, maybe it’s not that much of a compliment, but for what it’s worth, I am. I love this thing! Starting with:
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to [...]
