Was listening to “Shape of my heart” – Sting, and looked up its lyrics, part of which goes thus: “I know that the spades are the swords of a soldierI know that the clubs are weapons of war” which I put up on my gmail status. Surprisingly my nerd brother chose to comment on it,…
The gay parade in Amsterdam is, like football, a public excuse to party and drink on the streets. People of all ages – literally from infants to octogenarians stream alongside the main canal, Princengracht, where the boats go in procession. Not only of all ages, but all ethnicities and sexual orientations too. Accompanied by peppy…
Oranje is de kleur van gekte — Van Gogh fifa finals sunday. the dutch are in the finals after 30 years… the city’s mood is euphoric. never have i dreamt of being in the middle of football madness voluntarily… it’s only that my interest most recently got fueled by akash’s. and of course being in…
Can’t get away from corny love quotes where ever I go. They are follofink meeee! Eet’s a conspiraceee… The cupboard in my furnished room, which I had no hand in purchasing, has a lot of “love” quote graffiti on it. Ok, be pedantic, call it “open shelves”, not a cupboard. Here’s how the damn thing…
Quote from Shel Silverstein, I believe, passed on to me by a friend: “All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin’ In The Sun,Talkin’ ‘Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done…But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did.”
the petrified millipede millipede, O millipede!look at his tiny little feetwhere do they take him?don’t ask – he’ll freeze! i have not a shoe,i have not a souli’ll walk beside you where you gojust don’t ask me how that is so. question him and he will curlinto a little foetal whorlit’s best to let his…
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…
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…
there was no water in the house this morning. empty tank, some problem with the new fangled (old mangled??) hydro pneumatic pumping system. “so what”, i say to myself, “i shall convert this setback into an opportunity and go swim in the gym!” i set out earlier than usual, in a crumpled wrap-around skirt and…
