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where my eyes meet yours: Men do stare...
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Where my eyes meet yours. Men do stare at women's bosom - says MSN headline! The admission of the millennium! Do you, kind Sirs? Only a few weeks back, a Tamil bi-weekly magazine called me to ask for a radical byte on women newsreaders who were told either to remove their thali or hide it, as the TRP ratings fall when the viewer knows she is a "taken" woman. Not that it means that the path of my emancipation has been paved, only that I can afford a supermarket! A survey of more than 1,000 men in India.
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where my eyes meet yours: Morgue Keeper by Charu Nivedita
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Where my eyes meet yours. Morgue Keeper by Charu Nivedita. Translated from Tamil by Pritham K Chakravarthy ). From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 01, Dated January 09, 2010. All characters in this story are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, either living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Laceration 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm, bone deep, about 3 cm below the eyebrow on the right cheek. Several other deep incised wounds nearby, cutting through nerves, veins, and muscle. Contusion in left medial peri...
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where my eyes meet yours: Dear Santa, I have been a good girl...
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Where my eyes meet yours. Dear Santa, I have been a good girl. Mallipoo and Martini,. I shifted base three months ago, from a theatre activist in Chennai (still am, a theatre activist), to Hyderabad as a teacher of dramaturgy and film studies. As part of my work, I review movies with my students every week. Women seemed to arrive at Demarco's sight, gift wrapped. He merely gave them what they seemed to beg for, being extremely servicing, gracious at that. To see what the other women wanted this X'mas....
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where my eyes meet yours: A Road with No End
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Where my eyes meet yours. A Road with No End. Paper published in The Journal of National Folklore. A paper of Theatre Activism by Pritham K Chakravarthy. Photograph from Krishna Gana Sabha. How do you term this theatre? Vellavi (Marudhayi, The Laundry Woman). The Other Festival. 2003. That led to a long search to read more than what my own femininity limited me with. It was a chance viewing of an, ‘Oh! Nirvanam. Panchagini Human Rights Conference, 2001. Photograph by Venkatesh Chakravarthy. If all identi...
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where my eyes meet yours: The many Indias!
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Where my eyes meet yours. Just when I was wondering what I should write this week, along came an interview with Wendi Doniger on her book, The Hindus: An Alternative History in a popular weekly magazine on October 26, 2009. That set the tone. It took me back a few years, when I was performing a rehearsed reading from Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Zadaawi. A 2003 photograph from The Hindu. Of the Valmiki Temple, on E.C.R. Here goes a living alternative history to the mainstream homogenized Hinduism.