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Shame on you, Hindu !!
It’s a biggest shame on the newspaper which people from Chennai, like to read. Its not shame on the man who wrote it. It’s shame on Hindu to publish it without validating it’s writer’s abilities. The review of the hollywood movie Alexander appeared on The Hindu dt Friday, Feb 11, 2005. This was written by…
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Sujatha’s Second Sex
Sujatha in the preface of Eppothum Penn says that much of what he wrote about women in this book was by reading Simone De Beauvoir‘s The Second Sex. De Beauvoir’s famous book deals in depth about the women from biology to history and civics of women. Not only it holds you spellbound but also it’s…
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Shashi Tharoor’s Bookless in Baghdad
I write, as George Bernard Shaw said, for the same reason a cow gives milk: it is inside me, it is got to come out, and in a real sense I would die if I could not – Shashi Tharoor in The Hindu dt September 16, 2001. One would think what an self-absorbed writer Shashi…
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How crazy can you get ?
[Click picture for a bigger image] Found this Ad on Sulkeha given by a dude. Though seems like a perfect business deal at the first sight, I donno what to say. Isn’t this the heights of chauvinism ? And they are talking about equal rights for a girl and free education for ‘single girls’ back…
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A practical epic, Silappadikaram
Gita Hariharan is moved by Priyadarshini’s bharathanatyam performance on Silappadikaram. Hence she writes about this Illangovaidgal epic. Silappadikaram is one of the five epics of tamil(name the other 4 ?) and is clearly a poetic masterpiece, considering the story, the characterization, the magical charm of tamil usuage(thera manna seppuva thudaiyen) and ofcourse the genius of…
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