Stories about India from September, 2007
India: The Rama in Ramayana
varnam comments on the specific issue of how “real” Rama of Ramayana was according to historical evidence, in the context of the Sethusamudram controversy.
Mumbai police to monitor cyber-cafes
In its war against terrorism, Mumbai’s police is planning to install keystroke loggers in Mumbai’s cyber cafes. This new monitoring software, CARMS (Cyber Access Remote Monitoring System), that Mumbai’s police are requiring the city’s 500 Internet cafes to install, “will capture every keystroke by users and turn that information over...
India: Homosexuality and Crime
To Each Its Own on homosexuality in India, its legal perception and the issue of criminality.
US: Remembering 9/11
Blogpourri remembers 9/11, six years after, and on how the cities and our ways of looking at the world have changed irreversibly.
India: Democracy and Pakistan
Empty Head on the future of democracy in Pakistan.
India: Half a century of neglect
My Himachal on the state of prisons. “With the completion of 60 years of independence one of the oldest and biggest and the first Model Central Jail of Himachal Pradesh has completed half century of neglect.”
India: Sports, gender and suicide
IndieQuill on an athlete who failed a gender test, media covering sports and the lack of support for this woman.
Kannada: Bow to the Cynara within!
Tina writes meditatively about a“Cynara that exists within us”. She is referring to the poem Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson. Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses...
India: Sexuality and Women
Ultra Violet on the wraps on women's sexuality in India. Like sanitary napkins bundled in newspaper packages.
India: On America
Stylestation of being American, six years in the US and nationality.
Sri Lanka: In Hampi
Very Random Thoughts on visiting Hampi in India.
India: Madras Week
Metroblogging Chennai on the recent Madras Week, celebrating the city and its history.
India: Theatre and higher-ed
pretty blue salwar documents her experience teaching theatre in India, comparing her experience on an American campus with an Indian one.
India: On buying condoms
Learning by Living on the rather delicate issue of buying female condoms in India.
India: The IT Sector
Gaurav comments on the high attrition rates in the IT industry in India, and why the sector needs to innovate.
India: Rape and Consensual Sex
Law and Other Things discusses if consensual sex based on false promise amounts to rape.
India: Meter Down with a cab driver
Meter Down has a fascinating series of podcasts – interviews with cab drivers in Mumbai.
India: Hyderabad and bomb blasts
iFaqeer is deeply moved by one person's reaction to the bomb blasts in Hyderabad.
