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Last updated on February 07, 2010 07:47:11. ET
Power play
Power does not give you the right to vent your frustration on someone else. Shefaly has a lot to say on this. This morning, I heard how an 11 year old child, who has just gone to live in India for…
DesiPundit | February 7, 8:24 am ET
Two events tomorrow evening at the Kala Ghoda Festival
I'll be making two appearances at the Kala Ghoda Festival this year, both on the same evening. This pleases me very much, as it saves me the trouble of polishing my boots twice over and having an extra shirt ironed, and I'm one of those people who lov...
DesiPundit | February 7, 5:38 am ET
The Last Living Head Hunters
Esben Agersnap writes in his blog about the last living men who once practiced head hunting in Nagaland. An interesting story with a lot of pictures of headhunters. …tribes – which often waged war upon each other as well as on the more peaceful peoples of Assam. A peculiar aspect of Naga tribal warfare was the [...]
India Travel Blog | February 7, 2:03 am ET
Haat e Bajar e — to the Market (I)
The early morning ritual on most days were very similar for middle class Bengali Men in the late 70's and 80's. A cup of tea, a quick browse through crackling pages of the Statesman or the limp ones of AnandaBazar and then a stroll to the nearby bajar...
DesiPundit | February 6, 11:50 pm ET
Thirty Six Hours with an Indian Playback Singer
I always used to believe – the famous playback singers in movie industry never drink or smoke as it affects their sound. This belief was gone a couple of years back when a very famous playback singer from South India came to Phoenix for a stage show....
DesiPundit | February 6, 3:09 pm ET
The Bewitching Yakshi
The middle aged Namboothiri (A class of Brahmins in Kerala) was on his way across the fields that warm & sultry summer evening, going from his mana to the neighboring one, only that the other one was some distance away. He was indeed walking the di...
DesiPundit | February 6, 2:40 pm ET
Hell
No shrieking demons, no fire and brimstone. Just a drab little room at the end of a hallway, the size of a walk-in closet, no light bulb, no ventilation, and a sign on the door saying Lost and Found.A room cluttered with all the baggage our heroes have taken down there, the things they have left behind, returning alone and empty handed, their eyes unused to the light. A faraway look that we mistake for wisdom. That they mistake for pain.
2x3x7 | February 6, 2:00 pm ET
Which Park?
Here is an image from a park in Bangalore that I shot on some work a few weeks ago. Can you guess the location? Let me pre-empt the usual suspects and make it easy for you. It is not Lalbag or Cubbon Park.
India Travel Blog | February 5, 8:14 pm ET
Death by numbers
Symptoms multiply. You try to divide yourself from the pain but there is always a little left over. Injected with decimals, you grow diminished, then irrational. Death a kind of unity, the lowest common denominator.
2x3x7 | February 5, 2:00 pm ET
Welcome to the 19th Century
Ah, modern times. Check out these two amazing news headlines: Community ostracises woman touched by outsider Muslims on social networks are sinners Such stories they contain. It’s bewildering to be a writer of fiction sometimes, when the real world is so very far out and strange. The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic
The India Uncut Blog | February 4, 8:45 pm ET
Stairway
At Lakshminath Temple in Orchha.
India Travel Blog | February 4, 7:44 pm ET
Hachette on the Rise
Just back from the Galle Lit Fest, rested, and all set to resume blogging. Let me begin with the good news that my publisher, Hachette India, just a year old in this country, has already become the second-biggest publisher in India, ahead of Harper Collins and Random House, and behind Penguin. Here’s the full story: I’m most pleased that My Friend Sancho has been described as one of their flagship sellers here. Authors are supposed to have uneasy relationships with their publishers, but I get along really well with these guys, and their success is well deserved. Also, in the UK,
The India Uncut Blog | February 4, 6:46 pm ET
Changing Blog Host: Electrostani.com
Amardeep Singh | February 4, 2:00 pm ET
Asolando makes the night's acquaintance
You said you wanted to walk away from thiswith dignitylike a man walking into the seain a suit and tie.You said you wanted to face it head on"breast and back as either should be"which is whyI didn't call you backor say goodbye.
2x3x7 | February 4, 2:00 pm ET
Scheduling Your Backup in Cron
This is the follow-up to the previous article on backing up a Mac to a Windows Home Server machine.
Geekwerks | February 4, 11:10 am ET
Ladakh – People – The Good Samaritans
A punctured bike got us stranded in Likir Village, but we were helped by complete strangers to get back to Leh that evening. I was unsure what to do when I discovered the flat tyre. I had no clue about fixing punctures and there was no place in Likir to get it fixed either. When I [...]
India Travel Blog | February 3, 8:20 pm ET
Framed
Seen in Orchha.
India Travel Blog | February 2, 7:33 pm ET
Back Up Your Mac to a Windows Home Server
Unfortunately, this isn’t a way to fully backup your Mac, but it’s a great and cheap (free!) way to backup all your Mac data.
Geekwerks | February 2, 11:07 am ET
Ashes
You always were a slob.The day of your funeral I clean your apartment, putting the surfaces in order before your family returns to claim them. A pall of used smoke hangs over the house. As though your breath were reluctant to leave. Cigarette butts everywhere, on display in every room like souvenirs from a bitter country, the debris filling all the ashtrays, then spilling over into glasses, saucers, flowerpots, whatever happened to be at hand. It is as though death, in those last days, was marking its territory, claiming this space for its own.Carefully, I gather it all in a
2x3x7 | January 31, 2:00 pm ET
Detectives, drunkards and vampires: same role, different actors
[Was asked by Crest newspaper to do this piece about characters played by many different actors onscreen. Fairly assembly-line and hurried, as such write-ups tend to be, but fun to do – reminded me of the light cinema pieces I used to write for the Cafedilli website a decade ago. Only putting this up here because the blog is malnourished these days]When Robert Downey Jr took off his shirt for an action scene in the new Sherlock Holmes, movie historians dashed to their research hubs: was this the first onscreen Holmes to get into a topless fight? We may never
Jabberwock | January 30, 2:00 pm ET
On Readings
Since there's been all this talk about poetry readings on the blogosphere lately (or at least in the derelict corner of it that I haunt), I figured I'd weigh in on the subject with my two cents, if only because it's Sunday and it's too cold outside to go out (yes, Percy, if Winter comes, Spring can be very, very far behind).As I see it, readings as they've evolved today, generally have two distinct parts. The reading itself, and the Q&A that follows. Let's start with the Q&A. In my (admittedly limited) experience, Q&As following readings are generally snooze-fests, with
2x3x7 | January 30, 2:00 pm ET
Four mini-reviews (mews?)
Quick notes on some books I've read recently: I’m doing full-length reviews of a couple of them but will only be able to post those once they’re out in print.- H M Naqvi’s Home Boy is a very energetic debut novel about three Pakistani men in New York coming to terms with a changed, post-9/11 world – a world where “everybody is busy parceling myths and prejudice as analysis and reportage, and everyone has become an expert on different varieties of turbans”. I thought it was similar in some ways to Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (which I wrote about
Jabberwock | January 29, 2:00 pm ET
iPad Frees Us All!!
Well, there’s one great thing about Apple’s new iPad…
Geekwerks | January 28, 10:55 am ET
A Tablet Slated for Release?
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were having a conversation about what Apple could release as a tablet. Here's what I was thinking at the time.
Geekwerks | January 27, 2:33 pm ET
Off to Galle
In a few hours, I’m off to the Galle Literary Festival. Blogging will be light till I’m back in town, and I don’t expect to be online much. But who knows, I may tweet salacious (and made-up) literary gossip if the fancy strikes me. Watch out for that. If you’re at the festival, both the events that I’m part of take place on Sunday, January 31. At 10am, I will be in conversation with Shehan Karunatilaka, a Sri Lankan novelist who will be talking about his forthcoming novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew. It’s a book set in the world
The India Uncut Blog | January 27, 2:14 am ET
