Posted in Ph.D. students, Zubaan, fiction, translation on March 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
the first call today was from my dear, dear, dear guide who called me up to say that i have become a page-3 celebrity because i came on page 3 of the hindu metroplus with three very beautiful women… (thats the plus of being seen in the company of beautiful people, you start resembling some [...]
Posted in Toto Funds the Arts, Zubaan, feminist writing, fiction, women on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
An interesting story
Posted in fiction, poetry on March 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
For the first time, a comment that really challenged me. Swar wrote (i am reposting it):
“I attended both your readings in Bangalore - poetry as well as prose. The first time I heard you reading your poetry, I was very touched - the main reason being that you were so comfortable in your skin, in [...]
Posted in advertising, racism on March 20, 2007 | 14 Comments »
This ad first caught my sister’s eyes and then mine. And we kept wondering how come such an international, much hyped, reputed, blah blah blah organization went ahead with such an ad…
It is the kind of ad which you could use it in first year classrooms to teach students an example of racist advertising (the [...]
Posted in Toto Funds the Arts, Zubaan, blogging, feminist writing, poetry publishing, women, younger sister on March 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My sister often accuses me of being selfish and I guess she is the only person in this planet who has the right to accuse me so… and then, I laugh it away saying something stupid. Like, look at my name: Meena Kandasamy. From a name that begins in ME and ends in MY, what [...]
Posted in teenage students, women on March 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Work-wise I have been asked to proofread (though edit would sound very professional) 400 pages of printed material called ‘Communication Skills’ that go into the MBA textbook for the Distance Education cell of my university… I got the matter on Thursday afternoon and they need the corrections done by Saturday morning. I am aiming to [...]
Posted in PhD, caste, tamil films, untouchability, women on March 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
if only I had grown up watching films…
if only I had the freedom to haunt theatres…
if only I had a VCD/DVD rental next door…
(3 ifs already and my blog-entry will look like a C++ program if I take the risk of adding more)…
I will not be doing my phd on something as vague as english [...]
Posted in caste, poetry publishing on March 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes there are things which affect you so much… that it seems there is nothing else you really bother about.. and then you are so full of it that you haven’t even told your friends about it….
Typical scenario in which I find myself all the time.. Never stating the obvious, the important..
Well, when [...]
