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‘Servants Can’t Rape’
Or so the sentiment appears to me. My FB buddy Siddharthya posted this tweet from Madhu Purnima Kishwar, who is the director of the Indic Studies Project, housed in the Centre for the Study of...
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Bloodline Whoring
Willie the Pwince and his wife Kate have been at multiplying! Hallelujah to another generation of tax-leeches. Yay you, UK!Filed under: Institutions, mythical beasts, Obligingly Flippant,...
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The Travails of Talent
It is my somewhat narcissistic opinion that I am a decent photographer (even if only possessed of a cheap point-and-shoot and no photo editing software). It is also my opinion that most ‘creative...
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A Memo to Your Academic Husband
You think you want an intellectual wife, who can discuss your work with you. But it wouldn’t last. After a while you’d start expecting apple pie instead of articles, and then you’d want me to quit...
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Citywalk: Braingyms
A taxi unloading outside an old house on a small bylane off Monohorpukur Road. The yellow handbills pasted on the metre-box advertise Abacus, which is a ‘braingym’, helping you become smarter. I’m...
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Friendship: The Joy of Stiffing the Bride Together
After all the weddings I couldn’t attend this January (and yes, dahlink newly-weds, I will collect my heap of fish-fries from you), it looked like February was going to step up and deliver the...
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City Chicks in Sarees
City chicks in sarees. It happens a lot less than people would have you believe. Once, young women moved from their babyhood swaddle straight into sarees, worn around the knee with the aanchol or...
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Nationalism in India: Not The Western Beast?
My lovely and very gifted friend Ruma — who runs the bilingual blog Animikha — has posted the text of Rabindranath Tagore’s speech ‘Nationalism in India‘, made while on tour at the United States....
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US 2012
You may continue to call Mr. O. Prez. Yay. [Although really, my happiness is about Rom. not winning, not Ob. not losing] However, on a FAR sweeter note… Elizabeth Warren wins! Massachusetts is wrested...
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“The 21st Century Gold Rush”
This is a piece by Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie in the Highliner. I recommend reading it in full, right down to the credits page, because while the story details human monstrosity in human...
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