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CULTURE EDITOR: Deepti Lamba
CULTURE EDITOR'S PICK
Cherry Bomb, Mother TeresaAnd The Vagina Dialogues
CULTURE FEATURES:
•Uma Ranganathan wonders about the role law abiding citizens play towards curtailing violence
• Deepa Krishnan asks whether love exists in arranged marriages
• smallsquirrel gives a salad recipe
• Doctor Bhaskar Dasgupta talks about children in a Bhopal orphanage
• Adithya comments on the subcontinental divide
- Sep 7, 2008
- Book Review: When We Were Orphans
It captures the pomp of imperialism as well as the decline of the British Empire very well. - Book Review : A Prisoner of BirthThis is a book that every mystery/crime fan should buy and read and re-read
- Sep 6, 2008
- Book Review: The Opium Eaters By Harold BergsmaHarold has a fluid style of writing and his books make a marvelous read since they show us a world we rarely are a part
- Book Review: The Opium Eaters By Harold Bergsma
- Sep 5, 2008
- A Bangalore Breakfast
For those of you who know (or dont know) Bangalore, breakfast is the second best thing that this city can offer.
- Sep 4, 2008
- Navadarshanam: An Experiment in Alternative LivingIt is an experiment in alternative living, living in a way that does not disturb the balance of the nature in and around you.
- Poessay: Rosary 13 - By the LakeBe the change you want to see in the world - MKG
- Book Review: First Among Sequels
Next juggles her role as a member of Jurisfiction with the challenges of raising a family in Swindon and running an illegal cheese smuggling organization.
- Navadarshanam: An Experiment in Alternative Living
- Sep 3, 2008
- Why I am a Hindu?If what I seeking is freedom and irrelevance of any pegs, then is it really a religion?
- Fiction: RedHe was like an empty vessel that enjoyed the pleasures without consequences.
- Why I am a Hindu?
- Sep 2, 2008
- Twisted Memories
Buried Memories brought forth by recent turbulence around the country - Teenage Girls Buried Alive in PakistanThis is an absolutely despicable act, and the fact that the Government refuses to take any action on this after 6 weeks makes it even
- Sep 1, 2008
- Poessay: the one time the one time the bulldozer had stopped dead...instead of Rachel Corrie
- Poessay: the one time
- Aug 31, 2008
- Taare Zameen Par - Is Every Child Special?
What does it mean for a child to be special? How does one qualify 'special'?
- Aug 30, 2008
- Poessay: Rosary 12 - Kohled EyesEyes are an entry into soul: they also guard the entrance.
- Poessay: Rosary 12 - Kohled Eyes
- Aug 29, 2008
- Fiction: BlackShyama was his name. It literally meant black, and so was he.
- Fiction: Black
- Aug 28, 2008
- Married and Gay
If you are against gay marriage, don't have one!
- Aug 27, 2008
- Following PigsFollowing pigs is fun!
- Poessay: Rosary 11 - Creating In IsolationLife keeps returning. No death can keep it at bay. Disaster, calamities, dictators and ultra-orthodox firebrands do not know this.
- Following Pigs
- Aug 25, 2008
- Photo Essay: Worldwide Photo Walk, Bangalore
Bangalore was the only city in India where the 'Worldwide Photo Walk' was talking place, apart from the other 192 cities across the world. - The Indian ManHe isn't quite a male chauvinist, just an Indian man. We deplore his ways, we roll our eyes at his habits but we love and
- Degrees in the Virtual World?Tertiary education and second life, is that what the future would be?
- Fiction: Inconsiderate Indians"There are times I really hate Indians! They are so inconsiderate." She said loudly
- In Our StrideI look back now and I ache.
- Poessay: A New Cult?do you feel good and do you spread goodness?
- Under-age Drinking and the Family
This is downright scary. Alcohol is not just a party drink.
- Aug 24, 2008
- Can Only Whites be Racist?Why is it that racism is usually only associated with Whites and not with Browns, Blacks and Greys and Yellows and Greens?
- Can Only Whites be Racist?
- Aug 23, 2008
- The Psychology of Car PoolingWhat most people who have not experimented with car pooling do not understand are the social benefits of car pooling.
- The Psychology of Car Pooling
- Aug 22, 2008
- Book review: The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali
In its final days, the Ottoman Empire is orthodox and decadent, but Iskander Pasha’s family offers a splendid contrast.
- Aug 21, 2008
- Could India Host an Impressive Olympics?Could India hold an Olympics that would flatter, rather than embarrass the nation?
- Could India Host an Impressive Olympics?
- Aug 20, 2008
- A Train Journey in IndiaWhat's the fun of travelling on trains without having tea in a kullar, slurping it loudly and dunking Parle G biscuits in it?
- Poessay: Rosary 10 - Life Rosary II
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valéry
- A Train Journey in India
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