Reflections on Aasiya Hassan\'s Murder and Domestic Violence good piece

Demystifying Slumdog Re: # 27

glad to oblige :)

Demystifying Slumdog hamid sahib, i'm flagging your post for as usual ignoring my requests to not use any other name than neembu, and secondly, as i sense a hamidmianesque stream of consciousness stand up riff erupting from the golden globes of your lips (as per your believers), let me step back and let you issue forth.

Pray tell, what was intriguing about the character of Salim?

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Demystifying Slumdog Re: # 22

slumdog and/or bollywood as magical realism?

Demystifying Slumdog Jamal and Salim, by the end are free, and as Janis Joplin sings, "have nothing left to lose." What's awesome about this film is that by the end, money is irrelevant to Salim, he's the Irish/Italian mobster who's a Catholic and does hits, comes back home and prays. He dies a gangsta death of glory and rebellion-he's taken out two crime bosses on his own impetus.

Jamal could care less about money, but he needs to get Latika's attention and possibly buy her from the crime boss by whom she's imprisoned. He speaks "truth to power" when over and over, his narrative disrupts the national institutional myths of Mother India. His only goal is love, reunification with his murdered mom/india/latika.

Demystifying Slumdog Arguably, the chaos, poverty, corruption and disfigurement (spiritual, political, economic and religious) can be said to be more of a Fanonian binary. However, that binary does not account the ways in which characters at various socio-eco levels like Jamal, Salim and Latika negotiate their paths out of the slums. The corruption of right wing movements, state institutions, digital and eco divide are shown, but they don't crush Salim, Latika and Jamal. That is what distinguishes this film, imho.

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land Hampshire College cuts ties with firms invested in Israel



February 12, 2009 04:23 PM By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff

Student activists at Hampshire College are hailing a divestment decision by the board of trustees that they say makes the college the first in the country to break financial ties with companies specifically because they do business with Israel. But the college strenuously denies the move was politically motivated.

The campus group at the Amherst school, Students for Justice in Palestine, said it had pressured the board to divest from six companies because of human rights concerns in the Palestinian territories. The group said it urged trustees over the past year to sell off holdings in a mutual fund run by State Street Global Advisors that invests in companies that "provide the Israeli military with equipment and services in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza."

"The university has taken a critical first step in ending its complicity with and profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory," Jay Cassano, a spokesman for the group, said today. Cassano said more than 800 students, professors, and alumni signed a petition calling for the divestment, which was presented to trustees.

"This was a direct result of student pressure," he said.

But in a statement released today, university officials said the decision to divest from the fund was made "without reference to any country or political movement."
Instead, trustees concluded that the fund held stocks in more than 200 companies

engaged in business practices that violated the college’s policy on "socially responsible investments." These violations included unfair labor practices, environmental abuse, military weapons manufacturing, and unsafe workplace settings, trustees said.

University officials acknowledged they reviewed the fund at students' request, but said the divestment decision "expressly did not pertain to a political movement or single out businesses active in a specific region or country."

The six companies that formed the basis of the student group's complaints were: Caterpillar, United Technologies, General Electric, ITT Corporation, Motorola, and Terex.

Sigmund Roos, chairman of the board of trustees, said in a phone interview that while the board reviewed the fund's investments it never reviewed the group's petition, which accuses Israel of implementing "apartheid policies" against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"We never took it up," he said. "Students know that."
Roos said he was disappointed that students had portrayed the board's decision as a protest of Israeli policy. The fund represented about one-quarter of the college's investments.

In 1977, the left-leaning Hampshire became the first college in the nation to divest its South African holdings.

With their recent efforts, the students join a broad movement on college campuses protesting Israeli policy toward Palestinians and calling for divestment. Colleges have strongly resisted the idea, and activists' equation of Israeli policy with apartheid has drawn sharp criticism.

Jammin\' at the Jive where's the rest of the poem?

Slumdog Millionaire ... what should movies be like Any comment on two of the three musketeers being orphans of a muslim community? Was Latika a Muslim with an unidentifiable name?

A Just War? This piece better not have been written by arjun69 aka arJ. Edgar Hoover...

Nothing Queer About It Thanks for this piece!

India-Pakistan: Empathy, grief in Pakistan for Mumbai mayhem Timely, thoughtful piece.

Now watch the RSS/Shiv Sena Hindu Indian Brigade spam this board with their bigotry.

A Big, Decadent Pakistani Wedding I agree with the writer of this piece. Some of us have very simple weddings.

Sexless and Loveless Marriages Re: # 2

Dr. Sohail, can you explain to me why so much psych literature is obsessed with pathology and id? Where's the model of health?

I was talking to this psych, nice guy and all. and he recommends a book which is a psych interpretation of post colonialist lit. It was the most badly written, hysterical text I've read since reading Debra Solomon's interview with Karl Rove in the NYT Mag. The actual literary texts themselves showed universes of nuance, shading, true emotion and clarity.

Why does your field mess with literature? There should be a law against it.

Sexless and Loveless Marriages Fascinating, Dr. Sohail!

Any comments on Scott Peck's theory of cathexis as if relates to love and marriage?

Ridiculing Religion or Religion of Ridicule Re: # 117

this is def worth pursuing-the music of recitation, that engagement b/n reciter, receiver and text is very powerful. hence, the beauty of the azaan.