Postings

2011-11-20T04:49:00.000-08:00

Anna Funder in Chennai

This Aussie writer created a literary wave in the Marina yesterday.It was an envious event with Andy Jackson, an Aussie poet, a Writer-in-Residence at the department of English, University of Madras and Jennifer Arul of NDTV-Hindu collective.The non-fiction work Stasiland is a powerful text for debate.She could be reached at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Funder for basic information.

2011-11-20T04:41:00.000-08:00

SAVE HUMANITIES MOVEMENT

The subjects taught under Humanities are yet to be given institutional support. The faculty, students and well wishers of Humanities subjects in India must come together and join hands for uplifting these subjects and dispel the murky ignorance attached to these subjects.Let us join and become member in the site www.marghumanities.org and debate the issues.people in Chennai are most welcome to create a kind of e-movement for saving Humanities.Digital Humanities , the New Age offshoots, will also help us.Let us debate and bring new life!!!

2011-10-17T00:02:00.000-07:00

Jaipur Literature Festival(JLF) is one of the leading events in the world and one of the biggest festivals in the Asia-Pacific region.No people in Chennai takes an initiative to do one with the international flair here in Chennai. Kerala hosts Hay festival in the South.It needs to be popularized more. I am deeply brooding over CLF? Will it come to life in near future? Let's see.

2008-01-29T23:18:00.000-08:00

Barbarism to the core: Death of a Medico in Chandigarh and racial charge against Harbajan Singh

The suicide of a Medico in Chandigarh( refer and visit upliftthem.blogspot.com [30th January,2008 at 13.03 IST) is disheartening at the moment where yet another cricketer is cleared of his racial slurring in Australia.The attitude of this kind of racist hidden casteist and racial behaviours with loaded overtones against Dalits and Blacks must be collectively condemned by the global media.Australia will learn a new lesson about India's hidden racist agenda(practiced internally too )only now.
Cricket , a game which promotes untouchability( you can notice that no player will touch yet another player anywhere in the game, so India indirectly promotes brahminism through this game with much fanfare)must be condemned.This game must be banned in India. Football, which is played in the Northern parts of Chennai with international standard in rural set up, must be promoted in India.While football is a game of valor, courage, virility and honesty, cricket is the game of insects, game of the laziest, physically and mentally powerless people.

We must seriously follow up what happens next to our medico brother's suicide case in Chandigarh.We have to create a separate blog like www.atrocitynews.wordpress.com and we must alert our brothers in Punjab to follow up this matter and bring the criminal students for punishment.My request to Punjabi Brothers:Please create a blog to update the booking of case against the students who are behind the suicide.
Dr S Armstrong, University of Madras, Chennai.