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

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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Where I preen like a Harry Potter on a Firebolt

First, a link: Click this and read it.
Now, for those lazy fucks among you who chanced upon this blog while searching for furrikin or intestinal meningitis and are too disappointed to click that link,  here is the excerpt I wanted you to read : 

War and Peace is a no. I’ve tried though, and I own a copy of [...]

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Exhibit A

And the little doggerel this image inspired on Orkut: 
If my boy is to die some day,
by God I’d rather he
were re-made in the only way
man was meant to be.
His tan preserved in Kaiserling,
his squishy bits now hardened
with polymers before the curing,
when done he’ll be smartened:
A new haircut, a pedicure,
a suit suitably slick,
and the one thing [...]

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