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Lit-Soc 2007-08

As another of the labels in my gmail goes to sleep it makes me brood about the past... This year was a good year for sharav lit-soc. We started with a big 35 point haul in fine arts thanks to the enthusiam and talent of freshies. Shweta and Swati Ghosh gave every guy a run for his money. Then came Choreo Nite and keeping in line with Sharav's tradition of winning Choreo Nite, we bagged the first prize, putting us at the top of the lit soc tally. Daramtics: At LitSoc Dramatics this year Sharav perfrmed an adaptation of the play "A Little Box of Oblivion" with commendable performances by each actor. Speaking Events : Good participation in speaking events was seen this year from sharav Monoacting saw one of our best actresses Supreetha Jha in action. She secured the 5th position. I was adjudged 5th in Elocution Competition and the duo of Supreeta and I made it into the finals of debate. Music events: LM and WM solo brought in more points to the hostel. Two freshies Aarathi a

Critiques and Reflections

Though not Indian, Eleven Minutes is definitely contemporary. It talks about an issue that know would speak of. In his after word he even mentions that it is time when people actually started writing books with sex as the central idea. Drawing an analysis to the present humanities course that I'm doing, Contemporary Inidan Novel and Drama in India, the story talks about a young girl who goes to Geneva from a small town in Brasil in order to find money and the love of her life. It talks about how it is a foreign land and soon enough she feels at home. She becomes a prostitute in a foreign land and through out her stay, she has a single friend, an old librarian who doesn't know that she is a prostitute. It also talks about how women are entitled to sexual pleasure and what really causes it. Even though hse has been in bed with many men she never enjoyed it. And one day on the raod, staring at clock tower she has an orgasm. It's in the soul. The old librarian had once been unf

Da Vinci Quest

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After reading the book, "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, I've taken to making ambigrams. Tried out with my name first and it turned out to be the toughest. Here's presenting the ambigram of my hostel name "Sharav" (Sharavathi, fondly called Sharav) This will hopefully come on the back of my new hostel tee shirt : UPDATE :

tHe dePaRtMeNt oF DEniaLs

by AnuRaG MatHuR A brilliantly written book. It's humorous and that's what keeps the readers going, since the story is not captivating. But it does make you think. And the satirical humour always makes you laugh. A good read. I presented this book along with a friend in my Humanities course "Contemporary Indian Novel and Drama in India", just today. So I can go on and on about it. But I wouldn't want to bore madman though puppet would love it :D Characters that caught my attention: Baby Loon and Baby Hack Baby Loon comes from a bureaucratic family who are all at work and the baby is left behind. She is extremely smart but neglected. She speaks like a bureaucrat using official terms. baby Hack is like an extension. She is from a journalistic family and she speaks like an article from the newspaper The oldman from the bar He speaks in pieces and appears only thrice in the book. An enigma. He phrases "All women are leg-spinners"

Books again

I just finished a novel. I liked it. It's not about the novel. It's about reading. It's wonderful how through a book you leave your surrounding and you go floating away into different worlds; some good some bad some ugly :) You don't realise it when you read. When you read you just are in another world. But when you stop reading and then you realise your surroundings ou then realise that for the apst time you were not here, you were not aware of what lay next to you. I finished the novel and walke down to my mess. ANd i was still transformed into a different world when I was rudely interuppted by work and came back to reality. I hate this world. It's full of nuisance, assertiveness, politics, favouritism and blah blah blah. I want that book to never end. I wish it went on forver and I read it forever. Hmmm... I should probably start writing my life like a book and live it.