I had a splendid trip to Kerala! I attended my best friend’s wedding and am back. As usual I have been charged by blog neglect. Hope to catch up on events in the blogosphere! Have lots of things to share! And will do that as soon as my edition gets underway. Being a monthly magazine, [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Back from Kerala
Posted in The Muses on November 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
AIDS campaign on the blogosphere
Posted in I protest, tagged AIDS campaign, BlogCatalog, blogosphere, HIV/AIDS, National Institute on Drug Abuse on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi,
I am a member of BlogCatalog, and since they are conducting a campaign for World AIDS Day, its only fair if I post our campaign objectives:
Blog Catalog says:
“This December 1st, 2008, BlogCatalog members are joining with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human [...]
Obama to end “politics of grievance”?
Posted in Racism, tagged A P J Abdul Kalam, Advani, black, browns (Indians), Chinkies, first woman Indian President, Gujarat riots, Hindu 'mahasabha' leader, Hispanics, Indian President, Jews, Ku Klux Klan, Latinos, Mahatma Gandhi’, Muslim, Obama, Poles, politics of grievance, post-racial, Pratibha Patil, race neutral, race transcendence, state-sponsored genocide, UN, Vajpayee, Veer Savarkar on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Obama’s win has been hailed by many political commentators as the end of the “politics of grievance.” Their argument goes like “now that a black man has come to power, blacks can no longer blame the administration for not listening to their grievances.”
Just because a black is in power, doesn’t mean Afro-Americans are going to [...]
Prairie Muffins; the ultimate in conservative Christianity
Posted in A voice of sanity in the Christian world, tagged Christianity, homemakers, housewives, patriarchy, Prairie Muffins, pro-patriarchy on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prairie Muffins are a little, crazy women’s group in the US that I got introduced to through fellow bloggers. This group believes in patriarchy and Christianity, so they feel their ultimate calling is to be obey their husbands, be good, little housewives and bring up other “little Prairie Muffins.” So I thought I’d have a [...]
Email Fwd Pick of the Week: Global Warming
Posted in The Muses, tagged Global warming on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much more effective than Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, don’t you think?
Thanksgiving; Thanks for what?
Posted in Racism, tagged Afghanistan, Afro-American slaves, America, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Betty Ross, BPOs, brain drain, British imperialism, cowboys, Europeans, Florida, French Protestants, heliocentric cosmology, immigration, Iraq, John Winthrop, Native Americans, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pilgrims, Plymouth Harbor, puddings, red Indians, settlers, Spaniards, Spanish, Thanksgiving, turkey, Washington, white man on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving seems to be making its presence felt in India. Because of the great brain drain or the large-scale immigration, I find too many of my friends in the US; all of whom are making elaborate plans to celebrate this festival with their families.
Some of my other friends, working in BPOs in India, have been [...]
Gone with the Wind
Posted in Cinema, Racism, tagged Add new tag, Afro-Americans, Ashley Wilkes, Atticus Finch, Birth of Nation, Blacks, Butterfly McQueen, Ellen, Gerald O Hara, Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel, integration, Ku Klux Klan, Malcolm X, Mammy, Margaret Mitchell, Melanie, negroes, Pork, Prissy, racist, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O’ Hara, Selznick, sexist, slavery, slaves, South, Southern black man, To Kill a Mockingbird, Uncle Peter, Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, white Southerner, Yankees on November 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Gone with the Wind, both the novel and the book have won wide-spread appreciation and acclaim. But the danger lies, because of its popularity. Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean its right. Birth of a Nation was popular. Does that mean it was morally right?
Margaret Mitchell might be the best story-teller ever and Scarlett O’ Hara [...]
RBI’s Money Kumar & the Monetary Policy
Posted in India Uncut, tagged financial education series, Monetary Policy, Money Kumar, RBI, Reserve Bank of India on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Reserve Bank of India has come out with a financial education series. I found the series too good. I only wish I had such material when I was in school. I would have definetly opted for the humanities instead of the sciences.
*The RBI has said: “Reproduction of this material is permitted provided the source is acknowledged.”
So here we go, into the world of Money Kumar and the RBI!
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Getting quotes right
Posted in The Muses, tagged alliteration, God is on the side of the big battalions, God is on the side of the strongest battalion, Gone with the Wind, Law of poetic license, Rhett Butler, rhyme, rhythm, Shakespeare, Some men are born to greatness, Twelfth Night, Voltaire on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“God is on the side of the strongest battalion,” says Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. For me, this line appealed more to my practical side than the lines from “Charge of the Light Brigade.”
And later I found out that the line was not a Margaret Mitchell original, but an allusion to Napoleon’s saying [...]
Joyce Meyer on money, money & more money
Posted in A voice of sanity in the Christian world, Quotable Quotes, tagged Christianity, Get Rich gospel, gospel, Joyce Meyer, Name It And Claim it, prosperity gospel on November 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Wiki on Joyce Meyer: Pauline Joyce Hutchison Meyer, more commonly known as Joyce Meyer (born on June 4, 1943) is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker. Her television and radio programs air in 25 languages in 200 countries, and she has written over 70 books on Christianity. Some say she is a proponent of the [...]
