Posted in culture, fiction, india, novel, parents, writing, tagged actors, bioscope, Calcutta, Indian freedom struggle, Indrajit Hazra, inheritance, nationalism, review, silent movies, The Bioscope Man, The New Indian Express on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Bioscope Man
By Indrajit Hazra
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 308, Price: Rs 299
“The absence of parents is the first precondition for freedom,” Milan Kundera wrote in Life is Elsewhere. For Abani Chatterjee, born in the same year as the motion pictures, freedom arrives pretty early and pushes him on the road to fame. A mishap during [...]
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Posted in Chennai, activism, blogging, india, media, work, writing, tagged activism, AICUF, alternative media, internet, workshop on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My doctoral committee meeting went like a breeze. i was little scared by the formal atmosphere, but yet, it was nothing like I dreaded. So, the change of topic has been (shall we say) ratified.
On June 2 and 3, I will be conducting a two-day workshop on alternative media, with a focus on using the [...]
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Read article here. I can sort of make out that even a poem has been translated, but I am simply thrilled that it is one of my favorite poems. Wondering which? It’s this one: How They Prostitute a Poem.
Kannada Prabha profile and link-courtesy, my friend. Thank you.
Just seeing this made me so happy. Not because I like being [...]
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Staring at the question paper for the first full hour is perfectly normal.
The examination ends when you give in your paper, not when the three-hour bell tolls.
Giving a blank paper is not a sign of ignorance. It is also a mark of protest.
It is okay if you just answer for 40 or 50 or 60 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It isn’t even Christmas yet, but I am on a forgiveness overdrive.
Finally broke my two year long silence with two women. One was my best-friend, the other was a sister/friend. They had said things which hurt me deeply, they both refused to help me when I needed help very badly, they refused to be [...]
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Posted in blogging, tagged ELT, PhD, work on May 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I badly want to announce a break, but I am scared of jinxing it. Everytime I have said I that I would be away for a while, I have come back here with posts. So, let this stay. Have some trouble at the PhD front. I started to work with translation + language teaching, couldn’t [...]
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By Monday, I have received more than half a thousand poems… Great, and amazing response, but I am just thinking of how difficult it is going to be to sit and read through and judge. It would be fun, but it would also be a little taxing. So I try not to think of it [...]
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