Rolling

Meme

Rolling — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:32:11 +0000

Let’s Play 25 Questions 1. Has anyone ever written a poem about you? Yes. 2. Have you ever looked up and found a celebrity staring at you? Yes. 3. Has a member of the opposite sex ever impulsively kissed you? No. 4. What did you do? It didn’t happen, I did nothing. 5. Have you ever written a song? [...]

Art Day sponsored by HSBC

Rolling — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:59:45 +0000

Riverside, Ahmedabad, 17 September – Sponsored by HSBC CG Road Branch, Riverside hosted Art Day today at the Hansol campus. For the first time the entire school came together to sit and draw pastel flowers. When a teacher excitedly commented that she had enjoyed the act very much, Kiran Sethi, the Director smiling, said, “Yes, I [...]

Ahmedabad

Rolling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:30:32 +0000

A moment alone together before the before the whole family swoops in Posted in from Gujarat

Preening, Courting Peacock Family

Rolling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:28:45 +0000

The Prince Dances – First View August 09 The first morning at my new place am gifte with this gorgeous sight. First time ever in my life I spot a peacock outside a zoo znd watch it dance! Very happy, very excited, wonderfilled with nature’s welcome to me…ran inside to grab the camera…my first video shoot [...]

Fear of the Singles 2

Rolling — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:32:40 +0000

I was relooking at all factors with regard to the single women’s help group I wanted to start to support single women in India live a decent life – to empower and scaffold them socially, when they want to pursue their dreams. When I suddenly realized it is not just women, society seems to feel [...]

Fear of the Singles

Rolling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:51:47 +0000

An Indian woman’s problem is not about money or access or even men. an Indian woman’s problem is other Indian women. Their resistance to and fear of being complete women. I think this is true for most repressive societies. Their ignorance, misguided notions about what is right and what is wrong, about womanhood, seems to be the root cause [...]

To Improve the life of Indian Women

Rolling — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:39:06 +0000

It would help improve the quality of life of an educated, modern urban Indian woman if these things were in place: Right to live alone, unchaperoned by a female relative or male presence in her life. Right to not answer questions about whether she is alone or single while she rents a place (her safety, [...]

15 August 2009

Rolling — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:09:29 +0000

63 years of Independence: India celebrates its I-Day today, August 15 Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life [...]

Sabarmati Sunset

Rolling — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:03:09 +0000

Posted in from Gujarat Tagged: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Nabina Nag, nabinatrisha, Sabarmati river, sunset on sabarmati

Amalendu Nag

Rolling — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:31:58 +0000

Phoolda to the entire family of Nags from the little town of Barodi in erstwhile East Bengal, grew up in Rajshahi, was proud of his teacher P.K. De Sircar. I have no idea why today is designated as Fathers’ Day, but as I loved mine and he loved me like nobody ever has, I wanted to [...]

Audacious Thinking

Rolling — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:06:28 +0000

“Let us Teach them to be Audacious” Kiranbir Sethi Why we teach our children to be audacious thinkers? Because a look at human history reveals how it has always been the outrageously audacious thinking that made all the difference. Gandhi, who believed he could topple, defeat the most powerful empire with the power of persuasion and love! [...]

my father

Rolling — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:54:00 +0000

I watched my father die in my dream this morning. I experienced his death all over again – woke up scared, disturbed. I saw him lying on his side, his face very dark. He was alive at this moment. The way he lay, the way his face looked made me weep in my dream. I saw [...]

Strategies to Slow Down Population Explosion

Rolling — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:26:46 +0000

Recently, in this forum here this headline caught my attention: Billionaires Meet in Secret to Discuss Population Reduction Strategies – “Don’t Want to be Seen as a Global Cabal” The report said that Bill Gates initiated a meeting between billionaires like David Rockefeller Jr, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Sir Paul Nurse, a British [...]

Behalaey shedin

Rolling — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:48:28 +0000

A Lazy Weekend at Home this is particularly about nothing in particular. just a journal entry about a lazy summer afternoon spent at home. family gathering at Thakurpukur I met a long lost sister and brother in law on Friday. I cried the previous night before I actually met them, when I did, it was [...]

raining here in Kolkata

Rolling — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:10:26 +0000

summer rain, vacation time, am at my own table, with my favourite old computer blogsurfing. the window was open so the wet wind could play with my hair and I could see the trees swaying lightly and the street below here it is While I waited for the pictures to upload, this is what I was reading: 3. [...]