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A pole-dancer, you say? Blimey!
Most middle-aged Brits keep fit by doing pint curls in the local pub. But this one‘s found another, and arguably healthier, exercise…which, coincidentally, is also done in a lot of bars: A father of...
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Quotable: Arundhati Roy on the ghosts of capitalism
“Though capitalism is meant to be based on competition, those at the top of the food chain have also shown themselves to be capable of inclusiveness and solidarity. The great Western Capitalists have...
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Holy shit, literally
Today in Don’t Drink the Water OR the Kool-Aid, this little odd-news item from India: Thousands of believers flocked to a suburban street in the west of Mumbai in March, when drops of water began to...
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Sikhs after 9-11: Fighting prejudice and ignorance
Via Roger Ebert, this timely little documentary: Hate crimes against North American Sikhs are nothing new, any more than is racist hatred against anyone who isn’t white (or, in the case of Latin@s and...
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A few random thoughts on cops, rape, and murder
Sampat Pal Devi leads a procession of the Gulabi Gang in India. Photo by Sanjit Das. Couple of quick questions, everyone: Remember Russell Williams? And the Balcony Rapist? The reason I ask is because...
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Indian woman brutally gang-raped. Where are the media???
Breaking: A few days ago, an Indian woman was gang-raped, beaten, and left to die by thugs. So far, this hasn’t made the news in any major venue. But, you say, doesn’t India have a rape problem? And...
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Whose fault is it?
In India, it’s WOMEN! In the US, it’s WOMEN! Impotence: Laura Sessions Stepp (of Unhooked fame) wrote in The Washington Post that young women’s feeling empowered to initiate sex was causing a scourge...
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Compare and Contrast: Hollywood vs. India
This achievement is even more impressive when you consider what was entailed in the Indian Mars mission: “We have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise and human imagination,” declared...
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Sexism in India: a what-if scenario
A short film in which a casually sexist guy wakes up one morning…and gets a truly rude awakening when it comes to gender equality. What if guys…got treated the same way they treat girls? (And what if...
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There is just nothing that is not creepy about this…
One can’t help feeling sorry for Caitriona Perry, the Irish reporter (for RTÉ, their national radio-TV corporation) who got called up on the carpet, quite literally, by Donnie Drumpf just so he could...
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