New books

I buy books with my ‘contact class’ money. And all other such extras that the college pays me. So I was off spending it yesterday even before they’d paid me.
Bought Samit Basu’s Simoqin Prophecies. Have been wanting to be buying (hey, reminds me of sweet old prof I used to know) for some time now, [...]

Upset schedules

Seem to be this term’s ‘in thing’. A mysterious stomach flu (I’m calling it that coz it’s not been diagnosed yet) has flown across campus, making life miserable for a large number of students. Panic and hysteria have spread even more rapidly over the weekend, and the result is that college is closing down for [...]

A film screening…

… and some random thoughts.
Saw Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa yesterday. Special Screening at Prasad’s. Women’s month, apparently, whatever that was. Movie, however, was good. Jaya Bachchan - performance of a lifetime. I’d read the play, and the script pretty much sticks to it, so not too may surprises there. Some scenes are more powerful in [...]

Look, Momma gave me new clothes!!

All her young life, she’d been the poor cousin. Her mother was not rich, she had very little of the currency that mattered.*
So she wore the clothes they handed out at the home, though she didn’t like them very much. They made her look old and haggard sometimes, dark and broody at best. But what [...]

Today’s element

The air carries a rumble as of thunder. Here the electricity is not magic but a tool in the quarry.
The air shimmers in the heat. Is it trembling in empathy with a still-quivering earth?
The air moves. A hot breeze carrying dry dust. Ages old or newly powdered?

Dominance, difference, and all that

I’ve been wondering whether to blog this… but my blog is where I clear things up in my mind. So here goes.
My FemJur class has finally begun to discuss cultural feminism. When we started off with a short, easy reading on difference feminism by a linguistics prof, not much trouble. In fact, lots of experience, [...]

People who come to ‘contact classes’

No, they aren’t learning to feel people up. They just take correspondence courses and end up having to attend classes for 3 days in a year.
So, from my vast experience of taking sessions at these contact classes (yes, I took a session last year too), I’ve discovered that there are certain definitive types - they’ll [...]