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Posts Tagged ‘culture

When politics makes me write

Posted by: Ajapa on: May 6, 2009

The ex Prime Minister  is on television again and I don’t want to watch him for the hundredth time for the fear that it’ll make me puke. Pukey state of affairs this country is in. Ignorant souls pushing this place further into darkness. Who?
1. Communists who redefine Marxism in the most depressing terms that could [...]

My women’s day

Posted by: Ajapa on: March 8, 2009

Today they showed women on the telly rallying, speaking out their minds and saying what men would define radical. I do that all the time. I remember telling a guy that ditched my friend that lesbians are much happier together… I speak my mind, do radical woman stuff all the time. So this year I [...]

This city, my country, I love

Posted by: Ajapa on: February 28, 2009

I was born at the nursing home at the kamal pokhari crossrads, the heart of the city. My mother was born here too, the first maternity hospital in the country. It has been 32 years since my father has lived here. He built a house and built a name  and got to know the names [...]

The Greek Tragedy

Posted by: Ajapa on: February 27, 2009

“There is something remarkable about Eddie Carbone; his ability to follow his instincts. Natural law however has a way of making “tragic heroes” out of those who go against it” When we did A view from the Bridge, Jyoti and I could always sympathize with Eddie. We understood the way humans make follies that lead [...]

Re understanding sociology

Posted by: Ajapa on: February 21, 2009

 
An American Carol” is based on a film maker who hates the American Indepence day and is approached by the Taliban to make make a brainwashing “I hate America” movie to indoctrinate more guerillas into the Taliban. There is a part where the film maker, Michael Malone (Kevin P Farley) gives an anti america speech [...]

Leisure et al

Posted by: Ajapa on: May 31, 2008

I used to think that the Western protestant work ethic that promotes industry and shuns unproductive leisure was just another form of western emperial ideology… until I realized that my country was moving back almost half a decade relative to the rest of the world..
It amazes me how few of the unemployed  through the existential [...]