Posted in blogging on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t slept the whole night and just thought I will come around here and say that I won’t be on the net till July 2 (the earliest)… Not that my blog will be missed, but if you see me missing on GTalk etc. pls. know that there’s nothing earth-shattering that’s keeping me away…
Posted in translation, writing on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have been doing writing/translation for (let’s say) the past 5 years… And last week I made an interesting observation:
Whenever I was translating, I stayed up whole nights, I referred to the dictionaries to make sure of so many things, I fretted about word-usage, I generally burnt myself out… And if I could get hold [...]
Posted in Ph.D. students on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Didn’t know that my university would sort of grow on me… mostly because i am a character with very few affinities… but now that i am sitting at home, seemingly doing nothing, and even actually getting nothing done, i long for the university to reopen.
Just for the joy of aimlessly drifting in the corridor… going [...]
Posted in caste, influence, politics, untouchability, women on June 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Long time back, when I interviewed Gail Omvedt (my dream woman of sorts) for a Tamil Dalit magazine. One of my questions was “Today, Mayawati is seen as once of the most powerful symbols of Dalits, as well as women. But otherwise, how do you think the electoral success of the BSP, and the enormous [...]
Posted in translation on June 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Testing the Gender Genie, had me worked up all of last night. My question is, if the translator is a man and the author is a woman, and if the gender genie shows the author as a woman, can we say that the translator has succeeded? Naturally if the translator is a man, the author [...]
Posted in fiction, women on June 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a link I discovered this week: An online software that predicts the sex of the author…
First I tried it for fiction… Since the only typed matter that I had with me was the extracts for the Bangalore short-story reading (remember Zubaan? remember Toto Funds the Arts? How can you forget when I keep reminding [...]
Posted in poetry, politics on June 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday, I met the institute’s top-techie who told me: “Read the review in The Hindu…. It seems you have written something against Gandhi… I was so excited you know… Expected something like the Baroda University events to happen here. But you know its all okay.”
Not that I like to court controversy, but just [...]
Posted in blogging on June 4, 2007 | No Comments »
you know what’s the best thing about this blog….
that there are so many people out there with whom I can share my secret happiness. i am such a closed zombie that i didn’t even tell my own parents about the reviews, because i am scared of how they react, take it, or visualize my future… [...]
