(My bit) For the Environment

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 6/5/2013 6:24:00 PM

'The other day someone pulled a joke on me for not having a pet. Keeping an animal at home and tending to its needs is 'animal activism' for some. But the truth is I am allergic to animal fur and an animal anywhere in the vicinity can trigger a sneeze more rapid than the rounds of a machine gun. That's why most of the times when a dog or cat petted at a home I am paying visit to comes near me, I pretend to be have a fear for animals and try to shoo it away. What embarrasses and irrit(...)'

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Business Sutra--Book Review

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 5/19/2013 7:55:00 PM

'Title: Business Sutra: A Very Indian Approach to ManagementAuthor: Devdutt PattanaikPublisher: Aleph BooksISBN: 978-81-923280-7-2Genre: Non-Fiction, Management, MythologyPages: 437Picking up a book written by an author who calls him the Chief Belief officer was a first timer.And I was wondering what could a once doctor turned thinker turned an author could offer. Since business in an interesting area of exploration and Vedas and holy books from other religions than what I follow hav(...)'

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If my Dad was a Politician

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 5/19/2013 9:29:00 AM

'Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed.”This was a quote once said by Winston Churchill a true visionary who had foretold of the evil in store for us. 65 years later we realize how true he was, in e(...)'

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A Sold Out Idea

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 5/14/2013 12:00:00 AM

'I had worn tens of hats before having met her. But never in my life did I imagine that the eleventh hat would come with a feather. Alright, I was aware of what the dictionary had to say about an entrepreneur and entrepreneurship, but then as they say to taste how cold the water is, you got to get into it. I knew nothing about business or entrepreneurship or anything in between since we never had to know the finer nuances of merchantry to survive in a laboratory. In my grad(...)'

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Lost in Translation

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 5/12/2013 12:17:00 PM

'And I rememberhow we talked even in telepathy,styled our synonymous silenceand wore each other's secretslike the crucified Christhanging on a rosaryescorting us from evil,She can't explain me hervitrified vocabulary inrajma, rotis, rice and universityor when I beg in disagreementover another escalated effortat making mea Husband welfare organizationrearing to be a Momma Welfare roll.Then we had our linguistic liaisonstill blue moons that thirstedfor years and now,we whined for words(...)'

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Facebook, Diplomacy and Freedom of Speech

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 5/7/2013 9:15:00 PM

'Last two days on facebook made me a "touch me not" again! I have almost become numb, as a cold block of ice that is too mulled to melt, yet wants to and let go off.There are times I believe I want to blog more but then let's owe it to the lack of time and energy that make it impossible. And thus facebook wall comes as a clean slate on which I can scribble my thoughts and forget about it.In first place, I would want to begin this train of thoughts with a simple straight que(...)'

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The Evolution of the Music Experience--From Radio to HP Connected Music Experience

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 4/22/2013 7:15:00 PM

'Music in the mid nineties, was a black box with silver edges for us, that made sounds once it was turned on. I still remember while dressing up for school, how the "Ashiqui" song blared out into the backyard, from the only radio channel of those times. To be able to listen to music one had to memorize timings of shows that played your kind of music with no surety of your favorite song being in the playlist, every time the show was aired. Music was (...)'

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Sounds of a Morning House

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 4/19/2013 2:10:00 PM

'The morning is not a cock's crowit rings a bell in your headthe alarm is arrogantit shrieks to make you deafas she shivers to teethe a ritualone that earns her bread and butterthe pots and pans clamorand the kitchenturns to a concert hallwater scrubslike a river to burst soap bubbleshibernated by a hymnoffered as a token of thanksgiving.Tanks empty their belliesthrough taps, filling the thirstof empty buckets waiting to get drowned with dirtas the maid imitatesthe three monkeys of G(...)'

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Behind the Silicon Mask: Review

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 4/11/2013 9:58:00 AM

'Title: Behind the Silicon MaskAuthor: Eshwar SundaresanPublisher : Westland BooksGenre : FictionISBN : 978-93-82618-39-3The book cover and the title attracted my attention and I expected a roving thriller in store. But as I started reading, tens of characters and places and events were strewn all over the book with none making sense any or which way I tried to skim through the pages. I read and re-read and got lost with most of my enthusiasm dying down with each page. Unti(...)'

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Another Child Bride

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/28/2013 7:30:00 PM

'The twenty six alphabetsare voiceless vowelsand the table of twoa chart of codesmost like the mantrasshe will be coerced to chant,her dreams were dandified daisiesshe had pluckedwith the departing dawnwhen her doll wasgiven away in marriage,a red riding hoodwith frills of fallow.When waken at fourshe couldn’t readthrough the riddlethat this daywould consummate herin the holy fireand she will be confinedin the seven cyclesof mutiny and not matrimonyshe never went to schoolafter that (...)'

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The Frock and Hopscotch days

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/24/2013 10:29:00 AM

'Childhood is the cradle of memories for every human.  So was mine, a cradle of mirthful moments ! Frilled frocks were a fascination and those with pink plaits or polka dots all over them made my heart skip a beat. Although when I see my photographs I realize that my parents had not brought me up as a girl, not really the way most Indian girls are brought up. They made me wear shorts with contrasting caps and shoes hat always kept the(...)'

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Indecent Proposal

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/17/2013 2:52:00 PM

'A young executive was nervously biting her nails, the creases on her forehead looked like those on a crumpled cotton cloth, trailing around her temple. She was wearing black formals with stilettos that rested an inch above the earth. In her right hand she held a green office file with a note attached on the top, slid under a plastic name badge. She was squatted on the sofa with her legs in a ninety degree angle to the tiled flooring, while her back was away from&(...)'

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My Lawfully Wedded Husband and other stories--Book Review

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/15/2013 7:41:00 AM

'Title: My Lawfully Wedded Husband and Other StoriesAuthor:  Madhulika LiddleGenre : FictionPrice: Rs. 250Pages: 225Publisher:  Westland Limited (2012)I have a limited attention span and that might be one of the reasons that I absolutely dote on a collection of short stories. The cover was a captivating one with the red and black in sync to the  darkly humorous stories written onto its pages.The titles intrigued my mind as well, some like St.George and the Dragon and t(...)'

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Grandma

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/12/2013 7:58:00 PM

'She skewed seven stretch marksbearing eight oysterswho dole out her dowryin the white of her milk. Prayers, her morning mannersthe book her giftfor gall and worms, red seas never frettedon her formwhere not even a creasecould be carved bythe crown of thorns. She wore her veilto teach hymnsto clouds and childrenwriting on seedy sandof the raving riversas a ritual. She never let her mouthbisect the body and bloodof Christ, those were alms for her bellyand tooth of (...)'

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One Billion Falling

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/8/2013 4:11:00 AM

'Another International Women's day is around the corner. And my inbox is clogged with e-mails, of discount vouchers and free gifts and Women's day contests aspiring to make a difference. This history has repeated itself over the years. Every year the celebration gets bigger and better. There are more discount sales and free giveaways to take home. So also, if you have written a book on women there is no better day for its launch than this. In the midst of these celebrations(...)'

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The Child Bride

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 3/1/2013 9:32:00 PM

'The vermilion on her foreheadis the colour ofcrayon that coloured rising ridgesof the canvas in the art class,her puny fingers areblotted blood redin alta, soiled in the dirt ofhenna, both inane in ignorance.The fire isn't holyshapeless and scarysomething that her mother usesto bake rotis, a ghost thatburns in blisters,why did she circumvent around it?perhaps a dress rehearsalof how she will burn her bodyto dilapidate darkness.Having tied her to a strangerwith a bridle made of black(...)'

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8th January

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 2/24/2013 6:26:00 PM

'I did not manage to hit the sack the night before that auspicious January afternoon when I was about to meet him. I counted a thousand sheep separating the black ones from the white with a feeble hope of retiring to bed. I was worried about what I should wear and if it would be cheerlessly cold in Delhi when we meet. Those thoughts had hijacked my mind. The only hope was to spend the night staring at the yellow street lamp  that always had an eye for my bedroom.8(...)'

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Asia

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 2/21/2013 9:41:00 PM

'She washes the bileoff her wary womb,last time the copper vesselheard a child's clamourwas two years ago,when her husbandgave her a toythat could breathe and bawlwith equal ease.This one does the sameonly this timeher red seawont part to save herfrom an abusive allynor from lawless in-lawsfourteen and a mother of twoas if she was bredto bear and rear.Barely having woken from parablesthat celebrated her dolland "hopscotch" days,she is a childwho aged earlyto bear the burden of a hija(...)'

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The Ink Blots Story

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 2/18/2013 11:56:00 PM

'With this blogpost, I wish my blog a very HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY! For the compulsive loner I am, writing and coming into the spotlight was like penning the first page of a best seller I often dream of in my cinemascopic delusions, I never thought I'll live to see this day. To be honest all I wanted was a blog to put my poetry and fiction publications and created this space christening it as "Rinzu Says". It was abandoned thereafter with no posts filling its sp(...)'

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She turns one today... Ink Blots

Author : rinzu rajan      Blog : The Page Dancers      Date : 2/18/2013 11:50:00 PM

'On a happy note, I wish my blog a very HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY! For the compulsive loner I am, writing and coming into the spotlight was like penning the first page of a best seller I often dream of in my cinemascopic delusions, I never thought I'll live to see this day. I wanted a blog to put my poetry publications and created this space christening it as "Rinzu Says". It was abandoned thereafter with no posts filling its space.  I twitched like a snake c(...)'

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