Oh, look at all the pretty colours!

Apology/Update: Turns out it wasn’t Benetton (see Eco’s comment below and Jill’s on the other blog). The ads were never sanctioned by them. So you could replace this post with a “someone’s so sick they think this is a practical joke”.
Blr Bytes again points me to something thought-provoking: a Benetton ad(?) “issued in public interest”, part [...]

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Srivaariki Premalekha

I caught the movie on TV today, having seen it for the first time ages ago. Starring Naresh and Poornima, along with a host of ‘character actors’ like Sutti Veerabhadra Rao, Nutan Prasad, Srilakshmi and Rallapalli, the movie has a rather complicated plot.
Naresh is an idealistic young man who works in the ‘city’ (I think [...]

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Movies, please!

I saw the ‘mo movie measure‘ over at Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog, and of course, I am off, recommending Indian films that fit the bill. The ‘bill’ is that the movie

should have at least two women characters
who talk to each other in at least one scene
about something other than a man

So, let’s see. I [...]

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BatBaby

No, not a superhero baby. A real bat baby. Baby bat. In my flat. Yesterday.
Tipsy, what’s that bird flying around?
What bird?
Over there
Oh, God! Must’ve gotten in somehow and is trapped. Open all the doors and windows and it’ll fly away
Tipsy?
Yeah?
I don’t think it’s a bird…

After which Tipsy and her friend proceeded to call the watchman [...]

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Tempted as I am to draw attention
To the flurry of words we attract
A silence in the real world
Attracts me instead
A silence that is heavy
With words we all can hear
As we wait for speech
This silence is punctuated
(Is that what attracts me?)
By the beeping of a dying cellphone
An alarm? A signal, maybe.
I get up and leave the [...]

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