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Godawfulpoetry Fortnight piece

Posted in Blogged, tagged , , on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So Godawfulpoetry Fortnight is back for 2009. Details about it can be found here. Go read.
When it was announced, I’d decided to do a mashup of pop lyrics from my carefree youth. So, this is my one and only entry to this Fortnight made up of bits and pieces from Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, N’Sync, the Spice [...]

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The Wire, Vampires, The Rules of the Game and Bengal Tigers

Posted in Blogged, tagged , , , , on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

1) So I got into reminiscing with @ashwinpande over Twitter about The Wire (yes, this is what our lives have become. We reminisce about years-old tv shows with complete strangers we have never met IRL.) when it struck me how closely it resembles an Aeschylean tragedy. No one is allowed to rise above the roles [...]

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Stuff from the past week and something about a movie I saw with half an eye today

Posted in Blogged, tagged , , , , , , on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

1) A new translation wiki for Indian Poetry in here spawned by this discussion. To quotify a snippet:
…it’s only by engaging more aggressively with contemporary poetry elsewhere that we’ll be able to develop a vibrant community of our own. By focusing too much on ‘Indian’ poetry, we risk creating a community that is insulated, complacent [...]

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