Rape and sexual repression in India

The entire nation has been rocked by the horrific gang rape and mutilation of a girl in Delhi, who boarded a bus after watching a late show of a movie with a male friend. The incident in all its gory has been detailed across the media and I'll spare you that. There has been an outrage, justifiably so, against the disgusting event and you see a case of people wanting to seethe against something. The anger is all over the place not unlike someone...

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Basquiat - a review

Since the wife is out of town, I've had a lot more time to while away. Add to the fact that its the holiday week and work has been slack, so I've been catching up on a lot of movies on my Netflix Instant queue. The first was an eponymously titled movie based on the life of Jean Michel Basquiat, the famous neo-expressionist and primitivist painter from New York. Honestly, this was my first introduction to Basquiat and I was very intrigued by his...

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iPad mini - Why? Just Why? - From Technite

I need to get this out of my system. Ever since Apple launched the iPad mini, it has been irking me and I almost assumed that all reviews would bring this up, but to my surprise no one did. Instead what we get are fawning pieces like this, this and this. No one asked the most important question: Why? What is the raison d'être for this device? Continue reading this post:...

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Mercury dreams

They found ice on Mercury, Maybe they'll find rice on Venus And feed the poor in Africa Without letting the mice have it first Till then, be nice n pass me my drink And chill it with some mercurian i...

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