Posts tagged with “social”
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02 Oct 2017
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When Ivory Turned To Dust
15 Sep 2017 -
Finally, She Slept
13 Sep 2017 -
A Book Of My Short Stories
28 Aug 2017 -
Privacy In The Electronic Age
26 Aug 2017 -
Eclipsed
24 Aug 2017 -
Censorship Is A Double-Edged Sword
06 Aug 2017Recently, social media has been flooded with angry posts about some TV show called Pehredaar Piya Ki. Seeing so many people agitated about it, piqued my curiosity, and I read a little about it. To me, it seems somewhat silly, but again, I have not actually watched it, so I am going to refrain from judging it any further.
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When The Building Opened Its Doors
05 Jul 2017 -
The Stalker
28 Jun 2017 -
Taking The First Step
15 Jun 2017 -
Is the Internet Isolating Us?
09 May 2017A decade ago, I lived in a foreign country. That was when I started using social media. For a few years, it was about catching up with old friends, sharing pictures and gossiping about what had changed. It seemed like our forgotten friendships could be revived through the magic of the internet. If anyone had then told me, that the internet would eventually be isolating people, I would have called them raving loons.
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Are You Being Served?
23 Apr 2017 -
Just A Spoon Full Of Sugar ...
09 Apr 2017When we were kids, we were badgered by grown ups to read the news or watch the news in order to educate our selves and shed our ignorance of the world we lived in. In our times, news was quite boring and I wonder how many parents succeeded in getting their kids to actually read or listen to the news.
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Haunted By Our Colonial Past
28 Mar 2017A blogger friend of mine has blogged several times, about a couple of issues that bother her. One is, the strange emotionally charged attitude we have to the English language and the other is the discrimination, dark skinned people in India face. After some thought, I have come to believe, it is possible, that these two seemingly disconnected issues, could indeed be linked.
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Rules, Flexibility And Efficiency
09 Mar 2017Rules and laws are the foundation of civilized society. Yet it is not easy to make rules. A system that involves a large number of people, like a school, or a housing society, or a community is quite complex, let alone a city or a country. Rules are necessary for smooth functioning of groups. But no matter what rule is made, there will always be a few people who are reasonably inconvenienced by it.
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The Modern Family: Drop The Labels
28 Jan 2017 -
The Promise Of Tomorrow
05 Jan 2017 -
Spades and Hearts
29 Nov 2016 -
The Origin Of Patriarchy
18 Nov 2016 -
Bob Dylan On Parenthood
14 Oct 2016 -
Why Is That Funny?
28 Sep 2016I was reading the very popular facebook post by Tannishtha Chatterjee about her humiliation on some comedy channel about the colour of her skin. “How is it funny to call someone dark? I don’t get it..” she says and she is right of course. But that got me thinking about jokes in general. There is a whole category of jokes that stereotype people and make fun of them as a group. Any of these sound familiar?
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No Explaination Needed
23 Sep 2016 -
Why Do Grown Ups Taunt Kids?
03 Sep 2016Today we were stuck in traffic for a while. Our driver was bored waiting for some movement in traffic and turned his attention to my 2 year old. He held out his fist and asked her if she wanted a sweet. He occasionally gives sweets to my kids, so that is okay. But today, I was trying to frantically signal to him that he should not offer one today as she had eaten a few in the morning already. His response baffled me. He laughed and said, “Don't worry I don't have any. Look my hand is empty.” He said opening the fist.
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Tips For Your First OB/GYN Visit
16 Jul 2016 -
I Think I'll Raise My Daughters To Be Nice
14 Jun 2016