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There's no blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
I was standing in front of what used to be the spot where my favourite roadside jewellery guy used to be at Pondy bazaar, Chennai bemoaning his disappearance. I was told that Pondy is in for a facelift, a mall was going to be built at that spot. I had been buying costume jewellery from the same vendor for 3 visits spanning 6 years. His shop like the rest of the shops there has no signboard but it was...
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GIVING YOU THE END (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
there are two subgenres of contemporary fiction that have recently begun to bother me. 1. cultural heartbreakers books that invariably draw upon the author's ethnic traditions, culture and myths, weaving them into the story to create a sense of a very exotic "other", usually with some sort of emotionally draining plot that speaks to the "universality of the human psyche" despite...
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LIVE ON CAMPUS :: the world is your campus :: (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Filed under: Hey LOCstars, Hindu College is pleased to invite you to Bacchanalia, the annual Literary Society/English Department festival, on the 26th and 27th of November. Bacchanalia is a recognized and established event in the Delhi University literary circuit. It’s fun, challenging, creative and competitive. The festival revolves around various events intended to draw out the skills of participants...
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The Fischbowl (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Kristin Leclaire (who needs to blog more often) just posted about her 10th graders reading The Kite Runne r . I wrote about this last year , but this year she knew about Rob ahead of time so could plan a little better. As Kristin writes : I explained that our contact, Rob Dodson, had contacted me last year after reading my class blogs, and that he was a military officer stationed in Afghanistan. I...
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LIVE ON CAMPUS :: the world is your campus :: (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Filed under: “Why don’t you stay at my place tonight in Batla House?” said Syed Hasan, my new classmate in Jamia University . The question got me in a fix. It was 10.30 already and traveling now would mean two more hours of despair and another series of scolds from my parents. My father has been much disciplined all through his life. A conformist, but emotional to an extent where...
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JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
First, I have to contradict something that I wrote a few days ago. If you read my entry from this past Sunday, I commented on how sometimes it takes me a year to get through a single book due to problems with timing. That wasn’t the case with Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid [...]
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WatsonCommon (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Following a class of strategizing and writing SAT essays, I began Monday's class with a warm-up that asked students to identify the most effective and most challenging elements of executing a timed writing. Many professed new-found love for brainstorming and planning before writing. We also discussed what you lose in this kind of writing situation: revisions, time to write conclusions. From there,...
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Book Drum is a new initiative which is trying to create a sort of online Companions for well-known novels. Each book includes Bookmarks (with annotations and clarifications, page by page), Review, Setting, Glossary, Author Information and Summary. In their own words: What are books? We feel passionately drawn to them. We fall in love with them. But a book is usually nothing more than text on paper....
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Fluffycloud Studios (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
My house is NEVER tidy. I don't know how other people manage to keep their houses tidy and have jobs, children, do courses, live life. If I were to keep my house tidy, and my washing and ironing all done, I would be working ALL the time. The thing is though, it feels like I DO work all the time, so where am I going wrong?? The best I ever manage is "not-filthy" (and I'm pretty sure there...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The South Asian sport of kite-fighting -- featured in the book and movie "The Kite Runner" -- nearly cost a skateboarding Queens boy his life when a razor-sharp wire sliced his throat, according to a lawsuit. Jared Kopeloff was skateboarding out...
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I've been waiting and waiting to feature a video interview from Making Of for a long time. If you haven't ever heard of Making Of, it's an incredible new website that focuses on the filmmaking process. They post new interviews daily with some of the most talented and brilliant filmmakers out there talking about their own process and some techniques and tips. I finally found a video today that I wanted...
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Winnipeg Real Estate (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Afghan-born physician Khaled Hosseini rises at 4:00 every morning to pursue his second career -- as buzz-worthy, bestselling author. His first effort 1 Vote(s)
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Exactly 30 years after militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and began a 444-day hostage crisis that affected U.S. and global politics, HBO Films made a deal to turn the incident into a film. On Wednesday, HBO acquired "Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," by "Black Hawk Down" author Mark Bowden....
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/Film (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Lionsgate has released a new trailer for the family drama Brothers, which is directed by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (In America, In The Name of the Father), from a screenplay by David Benioff (The Kite Runner, 25th Hour), and stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Clifton Collins, Jr., Carey Mulligan, and Ethan Suplee. The film tells the story of a black-sheep...
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Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Lionsgate has released a new trailer for the family drama Brothers, which is directed by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (In America, In The Name of the Father), from a screenplay by David Benioff (The Kite Runner, 25th Hour), and stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Clifton Collins, Jr., Carey Mulligan, and Ethan Suplee. The film tells the story of a black-sheep...
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