Month: April 2013


  Let us be
Poetry

Let us be

Let us be playersLet us be opponentsLet us be partners-in a dance, in a game Let us be loversLet us be othersLet us be close, only in name Let us be foesLet us be strangersLet us be okay with all things not being the same Let us be all theseLet…


  S.E.C.R.E.T. – L Marie Adeline: As Safe & Bland as Vanilla
Body & Sex | Books | Pop Culture

S.E.C.R.E.T. – L Marie Adeline: As Safe & Bland as Vanilla

I first heard about S.E.C.R.E.T. in online forums discussing (and bashing) 50 Shades of Grey. 50 Shades, of course, had achieved cult status, a sort of adult Twilight for our times. Its terrible nature notwithstanding, 50 Shades may have brought the genre of sexual writing into popular and acceptable bookshelves….


  Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert: Desperate Housewife in the 1800s
Books | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert: Desperate Housewife in the 1800s

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertMy rating: 2 of 5 stars The original is in French and I read the English translation by Alan Russell (Penguin Popular Classics). I’m rather a novice with reading the classics so the writing seemed rather excessively descriptive and flowery to me. Perhaps with some books,…


  Quora: A User-Generated Content platform that doesn’t value its users
Digital World | WorkSpace

Quora: A User-Generated Content platform that doesn’t value its users

I wrote earlier about running into issues with Quora because my username did not conform to their policies. This is the same thing that happened with Google Plus. In that case as with this one, I changed my name to ‘Ramya Ideasmith’ and it still didn’t get accepted. I find…