Archive for the 'Society' Category
There is only so much bullshit you can take on any given day.
The faculty at St Stephens, Delhi is apparently conducting a boycott (although the brother was still rushing to class when I last checked) in an attempt to protest againts the ludicrous move by the college to enforce a quota for Christians in faculty [...]
Filed under: India, Links, Morality, People, Politics, Rantings, Religion, Society | 20 Comments
Tags: Catholicism, Delhi, Faculty Quota, India, Quota, Religion, St Stephens
The History Boys
But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained then it can be explained away.
The above lines are uttered by a somewhat socially inept homosexual Jew student when the Holocaust is discussed in class. The History Boys [...]
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Tags: Alan Bennet, Films, Richard Griffiths, The History Boys
The Piggyback God
Talk about religion and you’re bound to get me all worked up; not that I don’t appreciate a good argument, just that a good argument is non existent when it comes to backing faith or the the existence of an omniscient and benevolent creator who has time to answer your petty prayers but blithely ignores starving children in [...]
Filed under: Art, Essays, Internet, Links, Morality, People, Rantings, Religion, Science, Society | 9 Comments
Tags: Church, Doctor Who, Religion, Time Lord
Belonging
Over the last few years, churches have become something of a curiosity to me: places where you go to see other people wallow in their guilt and delusions. It’s especially weird considering I used to be an altar boy. Not the abused kind.
Realizing that the last time I visited a church was over a year [...]
Filed under: India, People, Prose, Quasi Philosophical Ravings, Religion, Society | 11 Comments
Tags: Church, Easter, Good Friday, Kerala, Religion, Syrian Orthodox
The greatest horror films have always been the ones where the monsters/ghosts were merely plot devices; real evil it seems is more often human in nature than say, floating apparitions or giant locusts. Watched Frank Darabont’s (of Shawshank Redemption fame) The Mist last night and what disturbed the audience more than the tentacled monsters was [...]
Filed under: Books, Movies and Reviews thereof, Films, Morality, Movies, People, Religion, Society | 12 Comments
Tags: Frank Darabont, Marcia Gay Harden, Religion, Stephen King, The Mist
‘Wait’ no more.
This Valentine’s Day, the Law Commission of India is thinking of all you hormonal, barely out of school, socially challenged 18 year old boys. As if board exams and sparse facial hair weren’t problems enough, the government of India may very well grant you the right to finally propose to that girl you’ve had your [...]
Filed under: Children, India, Links, Morality, Parenting/Children, Politics, Sex | 10 Comments
Tags: 18, India, Marriage
Disturbing. On so many levels.
Seen near Southbank, Melbourne.
Filed under: Children, Morality, Parenting/Children, People, Photos, Society | 32 Comments
Tags: Children, Melbourne, Parents
If there’s one breed of vermin that deserves zero respect/sympathy/empathy, it’s the one that comments without abandon on sites like YouTube and Redditt. Going through some of the comments on YouTube (as entertaining as some of them are) is pretty much all the proof we need for dysgenics. For the average internet junkie, sitting in [...]
Filed under: Bangalore, Crap, Crimes Against Humanity, India, Links, People, Politics, Rantings, Society, Technology, You Tube | 8 Comments
Tags: Comments, Dysgenics, Terrorism, Wired, You Tube
2008
New Years back at home/college were usually heralded with drunken musings or solemn reminiscing. This is probably the first time I’ve been part of such a loud and bombastic New Year Celebration. Tens of thousands of convulsing human bodies reeking of alcohol counting down to another year…things don’t get any better do they?
Have a great [...]
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Tags: 2008, Federation Square, Fireworks, Flinders Street, Melbourne, New Year
The Vatican has outdone itself this time. After the Ten Commandments of Motoring and declaring itself as the one true church, the dark empire has denounced The Golden Compass. For the uninitiated, The Golden Compass is the (children’s) film based on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials books and from the looks of it, the film [...]
Filed under: Books, Movies and Reviews thereof, Essays, Films, Me, Movies, Parenting/Children, People, Quasi Philosophical Ravings, Rantings, Religion, Science, Society | 6 Comments
Tags: The Golden Compass, The Vatican, Religion





