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  • Seasoning life with seasons.

    Rtu samhara, the cycles of season, or rtushringara the romance of season.  That is what it all about cycles, decay and rebirth.  In Sanskrit poetry seasons are entwined with love, both erotic and divine. They are parallel and interwoven. Vasanta spring, the eternal companion of the Kamadev, the lord of love, adorned with flowers and…

  • Hen stain up fur yerself.

    ring the bell–www.bellbajao.org How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? Anais Nin. Urmi’s niece has just put her yet to be two to a school, and Urmi was scandalized, why have a baby if you want to outsource its…

  • the cat calls–ring the bell

    The campaign is about domestic violence. The church bell rings when the town is in danger. The rats think of belling the cat to become aware of danger. For me ringing the bell is more about becoming aware of something that needs attention. Over the past week I have been hearing hysteria over Modi. And…

  • Shamed– a book by Sarbjit Kaur

    http://www.bellbajao.org Here we are talking about ringing the bell, Crime against women, When I say this is attitudinal, it is groomed over generations. In the south the Nair, and the Shetty community were matriarchal and matrilineal so were the tribes of Nagaland, until the Indian govt. When that is dominated by the UP-Bihar and partial…

  • over the Kaapi.

    KAPI-CHAT, If you thought this is baby talk for copy cat, sorry, buddy but this is the word for profound intellectual conversations that happen over coffee, you kids could choose to call it CHATTING Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love—is what kapi-chat declared about its coffee, as…

  • dhimaag ki ghanti bhajao.

    Ringing the bell to prevent crime against women, is just not enough, it starts with a very deep disturbance in the cultural ethos. We are in an environment where woman has become an object of possession to bartered, or battered. This is of course a contention of domestic violence. But there is something more, Look…

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