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The danger of a single story
Here’s an excellent video of the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaking about her experiences, and how a “single story” of a people does no justice to them – flattens them, and is usually used to stereotype and dis-empower. How the many different stories of a person or people must be told to get a...
The ABCD Song
Aditi’s (3.5 yrs) version of the A-B-C-D… nursery rhyme: A-B-C-D E-F-G H-I-J-K- Yellow-Mellow-Pee … 😀 Print this page...
Praise for “The Reader”
watched “the reader” on a sunday a couple of months ago. a bit late to post the review, but just felt like it now. brilliant movie. although as indians we don’t have the emotional baggage that europeans have over the nazi, anti-semetic subject, it still had a powerful impact. … not to mention the steamy...
Pink Brain, Blue Brain
Here’s an interesting book on gender stereotyping that starts from a young age. An example of the research carried out says it all. “In one of the eye-opening studies cited in Lise Eliot’s masterful new book on gender and the brain, mothers brought their 11-month-olds to a lab so the babies could crawl down a...
