Stories about India from April, 2006
India: News and Adverts
Adverts disgused as news seem to run on headline tickers. I don't know what's worse – that companies resort to such advertising, or that media organisations need money that bad. Youth Curry has more.
Sweet and Sour
#1: The weirdest and tastiest grilled rabbit for Easter If your quota of cute chocolate eggs and bunnies has been reached for this lifetime already, you will love this idea: Easter 2006 – MeatHenge Style. It is never too soon to start planning for next year, right? I first fired...
India: Disability and Abortion
Inkspill poses a tough question and an interesting discussion follows in the comments space – “does aborting a disabled foetus mean you are not sympathetic to the disabled and you do not admire their positive attitude to life?”
India: Caste and Community
The issue of reservations has had blogs take polar sides. Rashmi Bansal on the theme of caste – continues the discussion to comment on the distinct differences between caste and community – and the lines that determine (or divide) India.
India: Death of an actor
The death of an actor has had the Indian state of Karnataka in the middle of violence and outpouring on the streets. Dateline Bombay comments on the state of Bangalore.
India: Walking through Bombay
Windy Skies explores at a languid pace life in some streets of South Mumbai. “On most days after getting out of Victoria Terminus (renamed CST) in Bombay (renamed Mumbai), I walk down the DN Road in the direction of Flora Fountain.”
India: Movements for justice
Bhopal Blog provides an update on the fight for justice for the victims of the Bhopal Gas tragedy, and comments on the hunger fast, while commenting on the meeting point with the Narmada Movement – “As both enter a very critical phase of respective struggles, we can sense something big...
India: More on reservations
River's Blue Elephants reflects on personal experiences as someone who has handled admissions process in a college to talk about the reservations issue in the Indian Education System.
India: Caste and Reservations
The issue of extending reservations in certain educational institutions in India has got the Indian blogosphere debating with great passion the issues of reservation, caste and education. Evenstar blogrolls some of the posts emerging on the issue.
India: Painting Hindu Gods
Blowin’ in the wind attempts to understand MF Hussain's creative urges and motives when it comes to potrayal of Hindu gods and godesses in his art.
Guilt-Free Food Blogs Review
#1: From Japan, I was just really very hungry Milking the soy bean, part 1: learn how to make soy milk with no special equipment. Milking the soy bean, part 2: learn how to prepare tofu at home. Milking the soy bean, part 3: Okara This is the concluding article...
India: Domestic Violence
Wicked Angel writes on the issue of domestic violence, on how it's ignored by most forums and how it affects women from all socio-economic backgrounds.
India: Information Kiosk
Evenstar profiles Mumbai's information Kiosks that helps access free E-Mail, E-Banking, E-Greetings, Star Forecast, Exam Results, Railway Enquiry, Mumbai Guide, Movie, Restaurants, News, Health, Education etc.
India: A drop in HIV infections
Lives in Focus on the glimmer of hope offered by a study that suggests there might be a drop in HIV infection in India -“The research, conducted by a joint Indian and Canadian team, found that India's safe sex awareness campaign has had a dramatic impact on reducing HIV infection...
India: Loyalties
Indian Muslims on the position Muslims find themselves in India – “The two Muslim teachers gave application asking for leave for Haj were asked by the Education Officer, a woman, to given an undertaking that they would not indulge in any anti-national acitivity during the period of their leave.”
India: Watching movies in Delhi
Jabberwock finds out that watching Brokeback Mountain in a Delhi theatre is a less than pleasant experience.
India: Youtube and Data
Propeller reflects on Youtube.com as a data warehouse – “If there were to be an video archive along the lines of archive.org, snapshots of life all across the world can be recorded in a giant knowledge database making it probably the first system in the world which has knowledge of...
Armenia: An Armenian in India
“Headache” is an Armenian in India blogging at Oneworld Multimedia. Meanwhile, Onnik Krikorian writes about the long history of ties between Indians and Armenians.
India: Female politicians
Female politicians in India end up playing roles of sacrificial or raving ones. More than their ideology, their behaviour seems to indicate their acceptance and standing. More on this at Nikita's GenderBenders.
India: Changing face of Afghanistan
Ashok, an Indian design director in Kabul has a photo post on the changing face of Kabul.
India: The Flyover Issue
What kind of issues take up space in the Mainstream Media. Even within the broader scope of infrastructure, does the media favour issues that impact a small privileged minority more? Death Ends Fun on the flyover in Mumbai that has ruffled quite a few feathers.
