Fire 1996: Exploring Lesbianism in the controversial contexts of Feminism, Religion and Sexuality

 Posted on February 21, 2012  |  8 minutes  |  1511 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

This bold movie tells the story of two women who are married to brothers in a joint family. Through shared loneliness, they soon start a secret affair within the household. [Read More]
A.R.Rahman  affairs  baby manufacturing  barren  Bombay  china  chinese  chinese girlfriend  deepa mehta  Fire 1996  girlfriend julie  gods  good wife  hinduism  infidelity  jatin  joint family  krishna  lesbianism  love  loveless marriage  myth  radha  ram  rama  ramayana  secret affair  sex  shabana azmi  sita  unable to bear children 

Sparkling water

 Posted on February 18, 2012  |  4 minutes  |  767 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Water used to be free. In some parts of the world it still is but with all the pollution and diseases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to safely drink straight from a river, and in many parts of the world, from the tap. [Read More]
Aquafina  carbonated water  coca cola  Desani  energy intensive  environment  fizzy drinks  health  hiking  Kerala  Kerala's boiled herbal water  leaking taps  littering  long showers  Pepsi  picnics  plastic  plastic bottles  pollution  privatised water  sanctity of nature  save water  soda  sparkling water  still water  water 

LfE 21: Season of Life… Under my Skin

 Posted on February 15, 2012  |  3 minutes  |  574 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

03/03/2010 Hello everyone, I’m halfway through my stay here in Edinburgh and every day brings me closer to the day I can come back home to Bangalore and hug my family. [Read More]
birds  catherine  dark night  days get longer  EEG  flowers  fMRI  fresh green  heathcliff  hope  ornithologist  pink  purple  red buds  splinter  spring  sprout  squirrles  Sun  taking splinters out  trees  wuthering heights  yellow 

"And who, in God's name, is He?" A Book Review on 'Ka'

 Posted on February 11, 2012  |  14 minutes  |  2920 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

_By _****N.S.Jagannathan Ka: Roberto Calasso. Translated from original Italian by Tim Parks. Vintage Paperback 1999 Pages 448. Price $ 3. . Amidst the deafening din of post-Colonial chatter on the dark designs of Orientalists “colonising the source texts”, of the colonised, I am all the time nagged by a niggling doubt: how literate are these critics in Sanskrit and other native Indian languages? [Read More]
agni  Book reviews  ka  literary texts  myth  N.S.Jagannathan  native minds  orientalists  philosophy  rig veda  rishi  roberto calasso  source texts  veda  vedas  Vintage paperback