In an email from my Dad yesterday, he mentioned that they weren’t venturing to the markets that day, because of the Gujjar protest in the NCR. His remarks were wry, in that he said that people are protesting to be declared backward ! Indeed the reservation policy has taken on a twist with these protests […]
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Of Windy Indy and the crystal skull
This film is doing good business. I attribute that to all the hype generated prior to it’s release. It can’t possibly be the film. And I say this, after nodding off to sleep a couple of times during it. Between “Indiana Jones” and “National Treasure 2” (which I watched on DVD during the same weekend) […]
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This one strikes me the wrong way : a sport titled “skirt-chasing”. Admittedly it is for “good”, it’s about fun, it’s about involving men and women, and it’s about health. But it still feels “awkward”, keeping in mind that for me and all the women from desi backgrounds, who have experiences of not-so-altruistic skirt-chasing, molestation […]
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