Dudurudh

It has been a very long time since a post has appeared on this blog and apologies for that are in order. This has been a massive year so far for a lot of reasons and this post is an announcement of something new. The Statue of Liberty - One of the most enduring symbols of the United States of America From the Editor's desk: "For all the years that this blog has been active, the posts have been opinions, stories or random articles.I moved to New York a week ago and was clear in my mind that my move wouldn't affect the content on Dudurudh. But this city has thrown up some interesting stories in the short time that I've been here and that gave me an idea. #NYCDiaries . Some of the stories this city has to tell, the lessons it teaches, the incidents that one encounters, I felt, would find a home at Dudurudh. I'm not certain how long this will go on and how often it'll be updated but this is a start. Some of these posts will be short, others will be long, some will ...

It has been a very long time since a post has appeared on this blog and apologies for that are in order. This has been a massive year so far for a lot of reasons and this post is an announcement of something new. The Statue of Liberty - One of the most enduring symbols of the United States of America From the Editor's desk: "For all the years that this blog has been active, the posts have been opinions, stories or random articles.I moved to New York a week ago and was clear in my mind that my move wouldn't affect the content on Dudurudh. But this city has thrown up some interesting stories in the short time that I've been here and that gave me an idea. #NYCDiaries . Some of the stories this city has to tell, the lessons it teaches, the incidents that one encounters, I felt, would find a home at Dudurudh. I'm not certain how long this will go on and how often it'll be updated but this is a start. Some of these posts will be short, others will be long, som...

This picture has been doing the rounds on social media for a few days now. Some people have attempted to challenge the BBC's "representation" of India with these figures. But are the numbers any comfort at all? "Rapes are a shame but propaganda on it: WORSE" Clearly, a section of our population, our media and our legislators believe that a "propaganda fueled documentary" IS worse than the fact that the rapes actually happened. If the propaganda fueled documentary portrayed factual inaccuracies, go ahead, berate it. But if you think that reporting the darker half of our country should be banned, there really is no difference between us and North Korea, is there?  We are by no means a country of rapists. Certainly not the kind that was responsible for the Delhi gangrape case. But think about. Isn't it true that lots of people DO NOT disagree with the opinions of the defense lawyers? Isn't it true that at least 94% of marital rape in India goes un...

This picture has been doing the rounds on social media for a few days now. Some people have attempted to challenge the BBC's "representation" of India with these figures. But are the numbers any comfort at all? "Rapes are a shame but propaganda on it: WORSE" Clearly, a section of our population, our media and our legislators believe that a "propaganda fueled documentary" IS worse than the fact that the rapes actually happened. If the propaganda fueled documentary portrayed factual inaccuracies, go ahead, berate it. But if you think that reporting the darker half of our country should be banned, there really is no difference between us and North Korea, is there?  We are by no means a country of rapists. Certainly not the kind that was responsible for the Delhi gangrape case. But think about. Isn't it true that lots of people DO NOT disagree with the opinions of the defense lawyers? Isn't it true that at least 94% of marital rape in India ...

A few weeks ago AIB (All India Bakchod), a YouTube channel created by 5 Indian comedians, put out video clips from one of their latest shows- The AIB Knockout- A Roast of Arjun Kapoor and Ranvir Singh. The video got around 8 million views in the 5 days that it was online. It was, as the name suggests, a Roast- A type of Insult comedy that is popular in the west which involves a group of "roasters" making honest, often rude, and sometimes outright offensive observations, albeit in good humor, about the celebrity being "roasted". In this case the roast happened in front of a crowd of over 4000 people including Bollywood celebrities Sonakshi Sinha, Deepkia Padukone and Alia Bhat among others. The video was taken down soon after it launched after some people took offense to the language used in the video. The move stirred a debate that has long been dormant in India regarding the freedom of speech in this country- or the lack of it. But if one were to look at this contr...

A few weeks ago AIB (All India Bakchod), a YouTube channel created by 5 Indian comedians, put out video clips from one of their latest shows- The AIB Knockout- A Roast of Arjun Kapoor and Ranvir Singh. The video got around 8 million views in the 5 days that it was online. It was, as the name suggests, a Roast- A type of Insult comedy that is popular in the west which involves a group of "roasters" making honest, often rude, and sometimes outright offensive observations, albeit in good humor, about the celebrity being "roasted". In this case the roast happened in front of a crowd of over 4000 people including Bollywood celebrities Sonakshi Sinha, Deepkia Padukone and Alia Bhat among others. The video was taken down soon after it launched after some people took offense to the language used in the video. The move stirred a debate that has long been dormant in India regarding the freedom of speech in this country- or the lack of it. But if one were to look at this ...

It's 5:30PM and I'm supposed to be studying for an exam that I'll be writing in 16 hours time. It's the last exam of the semester and I can't find the motivation to bring myself to study for it. It's that time of the day when I like to sit in front of my open books, deep in contemplation about how expertly I'd managed to waste the past 3 days doing basically nothing other than reading tweets from random celebrities and posting some tweets myself. Of course, no one probably read any of those tweets but that's the weird thing about twitter. If you're someone with thousands of followers, it's a great medium to share your views. But when you have fewer than a 100 followers, it's basically like shouting at a wall in a very noisy room because eventually, not only is no one listening to you but also, you can't hear yourself amidst all the confusion the other people are creating BUT, you still do it anyway. I slap myself a couple of times regai...