envy and stuff

by Sini on July 21, 2010

It is my brother’s opinion that learning Kalarippayattu will not really help in an actual fight. He says, you will be starting with those steps while the other guy (who shouldn’t have gone to a Kalari, by the way) just kicks your butt. Even though I always laughed at it, I had also wondered whether it was true. I know learning any martial arts stuff AND practising it will help and otherwise pitham pidichavan/val be stronger and active(r) and stuff, but will it really help you in an actual fight with an equally strong person who didn’t have technic, but had a will to fight and strength?

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Alias Grace

July 19, 2010

Read Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I bought it more than a month ago. It moved around my settee and magazine rack all these days while I read Victorian detective stories that I forgot by the next day. This Sunday I decided it was a good day to start. And once I did start, I [...]

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Sins Against Gender Stereotype

July 12, 2010

So Dhanya tagged me. Something about sinning. and am like, how can the perfectest human being in this mighty universe have anything to do with Sins? Then realised it is something about what people think that you shouldn’t do because you are a girl/woman etc.. I usually get angry when somebody suggests stuff like driving [...]

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Devarayanadurga

July 6, 2010

Last Saturday we went to Devarayanadurga. It was an unplanned trip. I woke up at 8 ‘O clock on Saturday and decided the day called for a trip. So off we started at 10 , and that poor child had a very interesting time getting outta the city. I was asked to write down the [...]

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The Press Girl

April 21, 2010

So, today a pretty little journalist took exception to my having overtook her when the bloody beatch was not moving and blocking the bloody traffic. (Yeah, two bloody. Why do people have to go at snail’s pace? If there is a lorry in front, don’t follow it people. Go around it.) So she came honking [...]

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Nine on Nine – Nandita Puri

March 26, 2010

Read Nine on Nine last night. Citibank was giving out stuff for my ‘loyalty’ and this was like the only stuff they thought my loyalty earned. However, I loved the book when I got it. The cover page looked good. Promising to be a good read like those old Bengali novels. So I thought. So [...]

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Kaivara

December 21, 2009

Went to Kaivara on sunday. It was a very good drive. There is a park near the ashram, and though it is quite beautiful, you can’t help feel bad for the very lonely ducks and peacocks there. The weather was heavenly and the trees and the hills and the farms looked their best. Beautiful place [...]

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