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I DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO CONTROL AND/OR TELL ME WHAT , HOW AND WHEN TO VIEW/ READ/KNOW/SHARE ! PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION...
Posted by Mahasweta Ray on Wednesday, 8 April 2015
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To begin with, I thank all the people who thought it right to make the video go viral by sharing and re-posting it. You all were courageous enough to go against the "ban" put up by the Authorities of The Great Indian Democracy. At this point, I feel I should rather thank our Authorities first, for setting up a classic example of negative publicity. Hadn't they put up a row, most people would not have found time to watch the video on TV on 8th March - it's a Sunday, Cricket matches are on, most households do not maintain the maximum rated cable/DTH package that allows viewing BBC in India. But now, Jyoti Singh is present in almost every single concerned individual's desktop, laptop, tablets and smartphones - good work Sirs !
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During my post-graduation classes, I came to know that in the "West", in the school art classes,from a very little age, children are taught to copy the art of classical masters. The idea fascinated me. I realised it is actually a wonderful way of learning about painting styles, use of colours, compositions, textures etc, in a fun way. I also went to a weekend art class in my childhood. But I never went through any such session.
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A blog post on my journey as a reader, inspired by an event organised to celebrate International Authors' Day
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"Hello, am I speaking to Mahasweta?""Yes""Well Mahasweta, I am a friend of yours....""err..ok...""So how are you?""May I know your name please?""My name? Do you really need to know it?""Yes, it will be nice if you say...""What if I do not tell you my name?"
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Leaving few hours in between, I have been more or less glued to the television since Wednesday late night. It has been beyond 48 hours, and a bizzare drama is still going on in front of my eyes - almost the likes of hollywood thrillers - with fire blazing out of one of the most magnificent structures of the country, random explosions, gunshots and security forces- NSG, MARCO, RAF, and others.... the financial capital of the country, Mumbai, was attacked by terrorists, who by now we know are in all probability backed by a militant group from Pakistan.
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A few days back, I was with my niece Srijani and nephew Rick, on the formers birthday, and I gifted her a pair of dolls, which she had secretly wished for from me. They had brought out all their dolls and kitchen sets and we were playing, scattering things on the floor. Srijani is more interested in dressing up her dolls, and changing their dresses, while Rick is the one who takes charge of organizing things in place, and even cooking and making tea with his toy utensils. They reminded me of my own childhood.I am an avid lover of dolls, and I used to play with dolls even when I was quite grown up.
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Rick is only five years old and studies in KG. His elder sister Srijani , who is about one and a half year older than him, studies in Class I. She has started learning to write small paragraphs about people and objects around her. Rick, in his stance to imitate whatever elder sis does, also tried his hands in writing paragraphs - about himself and about a cow.
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At five years of age, my nephew Rick is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful and senstive kid around. He is an ardent fan of Tintin, though he can not read properly yet, and enjoys the graphics more . On his 5th birthday, I gifted him a CD of Tintin's Red Rackham's Treasures. He got very excited, then brought out the book version of the same from his collection.
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This evening, I had gone to Lake Market to get some medicines. I had plans to get back to Hindustan Mart, the conglomerate of handicraft and embroidery raw material suppliers at Gariahat, and then come back home. Availing an autorickshaw for the same, I got to seat beside the driver. There was an old gentleman sitting in the back seat, along with a young couple. In continuation of his conversation with the young man, he was saying that he was 81 years old,and he wanted to go to Jodhpur Park. He asked if the vehicle will cross Jodhpur Park, to which the young man informed him that he will have to get down at Gariahat to go to Jodhpur Park.Then he asked the young man whether he was a Bengali. The young man also asked him where he was from, and he said he was from Kanyakumari, and had left that place in 1940!!
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A few days back, I finally updated our website http://www.auroramedia.in . Earlier it was a flash website, but this time we decided to make a full XHTML/CSS site, with minimal flash, and made sure both the XHTML and the CSS passed the w3c validation. In fact, I was quite happy to be able to put up the w3c validation icons on my pages.