London’s day of innocence!

Guardian article:
After reading this I wish I was not stuck outside London. I have been living in London for a few years now, and yearned to see a different side of the city.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
“For a day at least, Londoners returned to a forgotten innocence. Yesterday the headlines howled about how [...]

Rang de Basanti

Today movies, music and Television in general plays such an influential role in the construction of social reality for most of us. When these narratives tell us the most important mythic stories, it is important to give them some attention. Since its’ release Rang De Basanti has been at the center of much social commentary [...]

Mullah Nasruddin and his stories

By way of a fortuitous accident I stumbled upon this website ; you can read some very interesting, inspiring and thought provoking stories by the famous Mullah Nasruddin. Below I am copying out one that I particularly liked.
Peace
Humble (retold by Nasruddin)
My beloveds, I remember a time long ago when I was still a Mulla. I [...]

Reflections on the Diderot effect

Insightful reflections of a fellow blogger on the Diderot Effect
I think I should say a few words about the Diderot effect, here too, so people know what the link leads to.
Basically, this is a term named after the author who first described the situation. The situation he described concerned the gift of a robe [...]

Waris the classic PTV drama – an analysis

For those of you who have watched this Drama, do read this article. For those who have not and don’t want to, you may read; for those who do want to watch it, watch it first.
The purpose of this post is to talk about some themes in this classic Drama. This Drama was aired on [...]

Life an Analogy – Episode II

Without preamble I will continue where I stopped …
So, now that I have spoken at length about the different kinds of trains that are waiting on the platforms, I will speak about the second most important question of all: Do I travel alone? If not then whom should I take as a companion? This question [...]

Do you dream my dreams?

An interesting thing about dreams is that every individual is supposed to have a unique dream, right?
Today, we are facing extreme massification of individuals – our clothes, our pass times, our world views and even our dreams are the same. For a few this may seem a good state of affairs, but I find such [...]

Thoughts on the Chomsky interview

Now, that I have some time on my hands – I do not mean to give the false impression that I was busy with work, on the contrary I was busy just chilling with friends – I must share my thoughts on the interview I referred to in a previous post.
It was an excellent interview, [...]

Deenport Ethnographic Study

Ethnographic Study of www.DeenPort.com

Introduction

This report summarizes my ethnographic work on www.deenport.com a virtual community with membership exceeding 1500. I start of with a description of my membership experience in the community, followed by a detailed sociological analysis of this community, questions of membership, power structure, shared behavior of [...]

Life – an analogy

I was advising a loved one on what to do in a delicate matter when I used the analogy of a journey. You may find it useful, then again you could consider it a complete waste of time ..
Imagine standing at a train station with the intention of embarking on a journey. There are two [...]