The first thing that strikes you – when you set eyes on Borobudur is – ‘gosh that is large’. Rally – really gigantic. Frankly, it looks more like a giant spaceship parked on plain ground than a place of Buddhist…
A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
August 6th, 2009
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Arjun Rampal and the desecration of a Parsi Fire Temple
The image you see below is from a recent issue of GQ Magazine published in India. Arjun Rampal actor/model answers some candid questions and one of his answers is a boastful “I am one of the few people who have…
July 5th, 2009
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Markers of marriage
RECENTLY, I PARTICIPATED in the launch function of a documentary film Pottu about the hardships and social humiliation faced by widows and deserted women in Tamil Nadu. Produced by the Kalangarai Trust which works among the widows in the southern…
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Inspirations – Jayaprakash Narain
From today, some reproduction of interesting speeches and writings. It is not about a writer’s block – i keep battling those – but more because these are readings / writings that inspired me at a certain point in life –…
June 25th, 2009
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Konkani Muslim Wedding and Sarkozy
Among all this, you wouldn’t have missed a huge number of women dressed in Banarasis, mangalsutras with bindis on their foreheads….As if this was not enough, you also had my husband’s Bohra Muslim aunt clad in a bright coloured and intricately embroidered Bohra burkha known as a rida.
In short, men and women dressed as they pleased or as they understood/ interpreted the tradition. I did not see any consciously defined uniform pattern. This is how it should be: Let people be. Let them choose for themselves. Give them the freedom to follow their traditions or reject them, as long as they are not causing harm to others.
Last Train to Panvel comments on the amazing variety of attire among Muslim women at a wedding leading her to comment on the appropriateness of the burqa ban in France. Perhaps Sarkozy has never been invited to one.
June 12th, 2009
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Prambanan Temple
Shiva . Mahadeva. Shankara. The greatest of all Gods. The God who is beyond Space and Time. The God other Gods worship and venerate. Those who dont’ understand call him the Destroyer. But, he isn’t. He ends the Universe at…
June 4th, 2009
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Review – Angels and Demons: Exceptionally Unexceptional!
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The Catholic Church has yet another enemy! A colorless and mundane…
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…June 2nd, 2009
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Parsi by Patriarchy
I CAN SAFELY—and with some amount of pride— say that I belong to one of India’s most emancipated and socio-economically advanced communities. As a Parsi, especially one born and bred in South Bombay (most Indian Parsis live in Bombay, and…
May 12th, 2009
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Religion under threat…again
“The movie is the cheapest mode of commercialization and does not speak any truth. The movie will be an attempt to malign Christians and their faith through deliberate distortion of facts. It would also hurt the religious sentiments of Christians. In India, Christianity is still in the process of being understood. Presenting Christianity in a distorted manner, is an insult.”
These couple of lines on the latest Dan Brown-inspired movie is enough to get Pranav fisking it to glory. We’ve moved from article fisking to paragraph fisking. Next up – Tweet fisking or Twisking?
April 29th, 2009
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We had more bloodthirsty Gods
So it seems that somebody, let’s call him “Genius” with air quotes, decided to go ahead and create an online computer game, involving Jesus and Mohammed slugging it out in hand-to-hand combat. Now, following an outcry from the “Islamophobia Observatory…
