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October 6th, 2007
Introverts, Unite
Yesterday’s link on advice for extroverts in dealing with introverts led the Professor to share this excellent article at The Atlantic:
Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially “on,” we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My [...]
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July 20th, 2007
Sex Education Done Wrong
Sex education has been making the news lately; not that it never fails to when it pops up in conversations. Barack Obama was at the Planned Parenthood Conference and remarked that sex education was the right thing to do for kindergarteners and added that it should be age-appropriate and meant primarily to help kids guard [...]
Patrix | Health, India, Society Culture, education | 7 Comments »
July 11th, 2007
Death to Smoochy
In the spirit of ‘holier-than-thou’ Bharateeya sabhyata and sanskriti, I must protest apni Bipasha cozying up with deft-footed Ronaldo (nooo! the Portuguese one). It seems apart from announcing Taj Mahal as one of the world’s seven wonders, she turned out to be the object of wonder for a certain football star.
In the words of the [...]
Patrix | India, Media, Movies, Society Culture | 10 Comments »
July 6th, 2007
King and Queen of India?
Sonia Falerio pointed me to this ridiculous post on Perez Hilton who report the weird story of an Indian prince who has come out of the closet. My initial reaction was why the heck was Sonia reading Perez Hilton who apparently is known primarily for holding the fort for his other famous namesake, Paris Hilton [...]
Patrix | India, Media, Rants, Society Culture | 5 Comments »
July 2nd, 2007
Gays cause floods?
Thanks to the erudite comments by the senior Church of England bishops, we have a new revelation:
The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God’s judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society.
One diocesan bishop has even claimed that laws that have undermined marriage, including the introduction of pro-gay legislation, have provoked [...]
Patrix | Mother Nature, Religion, Society Culture | 8 Comments »
June 29th, 2007
P2P robs corn farmers?
The MPAA and RIAA stop-piracy-or- train is getting increasingly ridiculous. Earlier, in order to stop piracy of movies, MPAA has viewed its primary customers as criminals looking upon them as suspects. The only thing that remains is being strip-searched. I am sure given how any violation of privacy or civil liberties is currently allowed by [...]
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June 25th, 2007
Class Distinctions in Social Networking Sites
Danah Boyd has an interesting insight on the composition of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook [via Boing Boing]:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call [...]
Patrix | Society Culture, World Wide Web | 2 Comments »
June 15th, 2007
Control, yaar
If it were up to few adults, we would be considered a nation of sex crazed children waiting to jump our classmates’ and indulge in some heavy petting if not outright sexual congress. Sexual congress? yeah! such archaic terms suit the news I am about to reveal. Two schools in Mumbai (yup, not some mofussil [...]
Patrix | India, Society Culture, United States, education | 9 Comments »
June 4th, 2007
Venting against Online Communities
What does your local Shiv Sena shakha do when it wants to protest against certain online communities on Orkut that write derogatory on Shivaji and the Thackeray family?
Vandalize the neighborhood cyber cafe, of course!
Tsk tsk…the poor souls must think they can erase those communities if they smash the nearest computer screen. Someone please explain to [...]
Patrix | Fun Weird, India, Society Culture | 8 Comments »
May 31st, 2007
Cheeni Kum Wedding?
The movie isn’t even a week old and daily news media is already adopting the title. Take a look at a news story that informs you about a court case involving a 26-year-old woman getting married to a 74-year-old British national under the Special Marriage Act. I read the following extract with great amusement:
Justice B [...]
Patrix | India, Law, Society Culture | 4 Comments »
May 30th, 2007
Beastly Men with Hot Wives
Just treat this as a minor quibble (maybe it shouldn’t be) from my web surfing observations yesterday. I was scrolling down the front page of Indianpad and noticed a story that had already amassed ten votes. The story was headlined ‘In pics: Beauty and the Beast’ so I assumed either it was someone’s tongue-in-cheek commentary [...]
Patrix | India, Observations, Recommended, Society Culture | 10 Comments »
May 29th, 2007
Wedding Guest List
Any thoughts that I had entertained of a small wedding ceremony or the subsequent reception seem to be fading now. Both Ash and I wanted a small ceremony with immediate family and close friends but parents are thinking otherwise. Perhaps they are justified in their actions to invite almost half the town. To make the [...]
Patrix | India, Personal, Society Culture | 13 Comments »
May 25th, 2007
Krishna as a dating icon
Earlier this week I posted an image of Lord Krishna sucking on a cow’s teat citing that I found the image weird (not offensive, mind you). The post generated lot of comments some of which found nothing wrong with the depiction. I understand their perception and thus lack of any feelings of being weirded out [...]
Patrix | India, Rants, Recommended, Religion, Society Culture | 16 Comments »
May 24th, 2007
Sexual Predators
One of the worst things that can happen to anyone these days in America is not landing up on the TSA’s No-Fly Terrorist watch list but rather on the sex offenders list. Chris Hansen even assumes the role of our children’s protector though his popular TV show ‘To Catch a Predator‘. Parties that have such [...]
Patrix | Law, Recommended, Society Culture, United States | 10 Comments »
May 17th, 2007
Blogospheric Debates and Free Speech Arguments on Art Censorship
While bemoaning the lack of civil discourse in comments all over the generic blogosphere, I find that the quality of debate and discussion on the desi blogosphere is somewhat better. Probably the size and multitudes of connections amongst prominent bloggers are responsible. You are less likely to slander a blogger if he or she knows [...]
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May 15th, 2007
Moral Police Raj
This is shocking. We should stop pretending that we are a blooming democracy when in fact, the basic tenets of freedom of expression aren’t adhered to. Violations of freedom of expression in India are so common place nowadays that any protesting bloggers or any other group are considered recalcitrant. We like to trumpet the fact [...]
Patrix | Current Affairs, India, Politicking, Rants, Religion, Society Culture | 6 Comments »
May 11th, 2007
5 Simple Ways to Save Gas
Nope, I am not going to ask you to stop driving your car. The wheel, according to me has been man’s greatest invention and has radically altered our civilization so we don’t expect it to go away any time soon. At the same time, the way we use our wheels may be important for the [...]
Patrix | Environment, Society Culture | 3 Comments »
March 28th, 2007
Sanjaya Malakar is beyond American Idol
The discussion of Sanjaya’s relevance has moved beyond American Idol. Whether he is voted out today or not, he is surely here to stay and is not your typical 15-minute-fame-guy. Initially I was disengaged on his fate in American Idol. I know he doesn’t sing that great or doesn’t have that overpowering stage presence of [...]
Patrix | Media, Society Culture, Television, United States | 5 Comments »
March 27th, 2007
Death Threats against Bloggers
Kathy Sierra, the excellent blogger who pens Creating Passionate Users was the target of some vicious death threats. If you read her blog regularly (and you should), then frankly you see no reason why anyone would think of harming her. She never writes on controversial topics but merely gives useful advice on usability and consumer-friendly [...]
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Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-20 16:55
Delightful comedy laced with dry Brit humor. A bit sappy though.
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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2008-08-09 23:00
Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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