Diwali-Deepavali
• November 9, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Mahabharata', 'Ramayana', Amit Varma, anthropology, art, art and society, Art&Music, Art&Poetry, artists, Asia, Avadha, Ayurvedic cooking, Bhudevi, Bohemia, Coffee House Press, community, contemporary art, cooking, creative writing, creativity, culture, Deepavali, deliquescence, desi-lit, Dharma Beat Poet, Diwali, Diyas, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Dussera, Eros, erotica, Farm to Table, feminism, Festival of Lights, fireworks & sweets, food, Fotografos, Ganges, Good vs Evil, Harvest Festivals, Hindu festivals, Hindu holidays, Hindu mythology, Hinduism, History, human history, Iconic Imagery, India, India and Pakistan, Indian holidays/festivals, Indian-American, Kali-Chudash, King Rama, l'automne, Lakshmi, life, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, local food infrastructure, Lord Rama, Lord Vishnu, love, Ma Sita, Milwaukee writers, Mother Goddess, Mythology, Narakasura, natural habitats and life cycles, Naturalism & Modernism, Pakistan, Philosophy, Photography, Pleiades, Poetics, poetry, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, popular culture, Post-Beat Era, Prose Fiction, Prosperity, publication, Punjab, Punjabi Bhangra, pyschology, race, Rawalpindi, religion, sacred texts, Sagas Legends, Sikh festivals, South Asia, south asian art, South Asian artists, South Asian Media, Spontaneous Prose, Srinivasa Ramanujan, symbolism, Tamil Nadu, travel, vernacular, Whole Earth, Writing & Poetics
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Bhutto under House Arrest-
• November 9, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Nie Wieder Krieg', Aeolian dialect of Greek, America & Middle East politics, Amit Varma, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anti-establishment, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, Apocryphal, aristocracy, Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, Authenticity, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Benazir Bhutto, bibliophile, Blogging, Bloody Hands, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, Burma, censorship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, community, conspiracy against democracy, Contemporary Writers, Corporate lackeys, Corporate Moguls, corruption, creative writing, critical media, cultural icons, cultural legacy, culture, democracy, Democracy politics, Democratic Voice of Burma, Dharma Beat Poet, economics, editiorials, Ethics, extremists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, free-speech, freedom, global politics, government, human history, human rights, Iconic Imagery, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India, India and Pakistan, India-Pakistan relations, intelligentsia, international affairs, Journalism, justice, Khaled Hasseini, liberation, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, mass protests/demonstrations, Media, media blackouts, Media Wonks, Milwaukee writers, Musharraf, new activism, News, opinions, oppression, pacifist consciousness, pacifist politics, Pakistan military, Pakistan People's Party-PPP, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan politics, patriarchy, Peace Action, Philosophy, photojournalism, Police Brutality, Policy Wonk, politics, Politics of Confrontation, Post-Beat Era, post-Beat Poetry Community, PPP activists, Preetha Kannan, Pro-Democracy Movement, Pro-Freedom, progressive politics, protests, pseudo-anonymous, publication, pyschology, Rawalpindi, social criticism, social critique, Solidarity, Sourdough Mountain, South Asia, South Asian Media, South Asian political leaders, Srinivasa Ramanujan, State of Emergency, travel, Women Political Leaders
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Rambling Manifesto ends in Death-
• November 7, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Analytical Consciousness, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Bloody Hands, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, community, counterculture, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, culture consumption, Ethics, extremists, Finland, Finland massacre, Finnish Culture, human history, Independent Media/Journalism, Independent press, Jokela HS
Tags: 'Storm Spirit, 'Sturmgeist89', antisocial Darwinist, BBC, Blog, death, education, Ethics, extremists, Finland massacre, Finnish Culture, Finnish media, health, humanity, international news, internet, Jokela High School-Finland, Journalism, life, Matti Vanhanen, Media, News, Pekka-Eric Aurineau, people, politics, psychology, rambling manifesto, random, reading, school killings, society, teenage angst, teenage violence, thoughts, world, youth, YouTube
Samhain-
• October 31, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in All Hallows, All Souls, ancient languages, anthropology, anthroposophy, art, art and society, Beat Poets, Bohemia, community, culture, Day of the Dead, dia de los Muertos, Druid Feast of Samhain, Edgar Allan Poe, environmentalism, Feast of Februalia, Hallow's Eve, Hecate, History, l'automne, life, literature, Lyric Poetess, natural habitats and life cycles, Naturalism & Modernism, poetry, Poets/Icons, Pomona, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, Prose Fiction, Sagas Legends, Samhain, Writing & Poetics
Tags: All Hallows, All Souls, anthroposophy, art, circle of Life, culture, Day of the Dead, dia de los Muertos, Druid Feast of Samhain, Druids, Earth cycles, Earth festival, family, Feast of Februalia, festivals&celebrations, food, Hallow's Eve, Halloween, Harvest Festival, Hecate Greek Goddess, Jack-O-Lantern, life, Lord of Death, Mexican celebration, Musings, Pagan, Philosophy, Pomona Goddes of the Fruits, random, religion, Samhain, society, thoughts, traditions, world
From this…
• October 29, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in "war criminal", 'Defuse Fairooz', America & Middle East politics, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, art, art and society, Baghdad deaths, Banksy, Beat Poets, Blackwater, Bloody Hands, Branding of Politics, Bush cronies, censorship, Code Pink, Code Pink cult, Condoleezza Rice, conspiracy against democracy, corruption, critical media, culture, democracy, Democracy politics, Ethics, free-speech, freedom, global politics, Guerilla artist, human rights, international affairs, Iraq policy, Journalism, liberation, Literary coterie, Media, Media Frenzy, Meteoric rise, Middle East politics, MJ Shahid, Modern American Poetry, modern urban Life, monculture catastrophe, new activism, News, On courage and resistance..., oppression, pacifist consciousness, pacifist politics, Peace Action, physics, Pleiades, poetry, politics, Politics of Confrontation, Pro-Democracy Movement, Pro-Freedom, Public Debate, pyschology, Radical Left, Sappho's Aeolic dialect, social criticism, Soho scene, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Voice of Dissent
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to this…
• October 29, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in community, culture, life, Literary coterie, literature
Tags: American consumerism, American politics, anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, Anti-war, Bush cronies, cosumerism, dissent, free-speech, freedom, government, History, Iraq, justice, liberation, liberty, Media, Middle East, New Democracy Movement, News, protests, social critique, thoughts, world, writing
Who Put the Revolution on Ice?
• October 28, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, Anti-war, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art History, Art&Design, Artistic Genres, artists, auctions, Avant-Garde Painting, Banksy, Beat Generation, Beat Literature, Bohemia, books, Branding of Politics, Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), Britian artworld, censorship, cinema, community, Comrade Martynov, conspiracy against democracy, contemporary art, corruption, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, cult of personality, cultural icons, cultural legacy, culture, democracy, Democracy politics, emerging arts movement, Ethics, existentialism, experimental writing, freedom, galleries, Graffiti ART, Great Bristol aerosol, Guerilla artist, guerilla graffiti ART slogans, hyperrealistic, Irony Art sales, Iskra, Jungian therapy, Kato Tes, Lenin on Rollerskates, liberation, life, Literary coterie, literature, lithography, Media, Mensheviks, Mensheviks Party Propaganda, Meteoric rise, Modern American Poetry, modern urban Life, monculture catastrophe, Neighborhood Watch Subvert, new activism, News, On courage and resistance..., Opportunist, Painting, Peter Stark, Philosophy, Photography, physics, Pillars of Hercules, poetry, politics, popular culture, Pro-Democracy Movement, Pro-Freedom, progressive politics, pseudo-anonymous, publication, pyschology, rhythmical grumbles, Russia, satirical art, sculpture, social criticism, Social-Democratic organization, sociology, Soho scene, stencill graffiti ART, subverted Paintings, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Urban art, Video art, writing
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Dussera-
• October 23, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Asia, community, culture, Dussera, Hindu festivals, Hindu holidays, India, Jai Ambe Gauri, life, Mother Goddess, Mythology, Photography, sacred texts, South Asia, South Asian Media
Tags: celebrations, culture, Dussera, Hindu festivals, Inida, Jai Ambe Gauri, life, Musings, Mythology, News, Philosophy, photos, pooja, religion, South Asia, thoughts, triumph of good over evil, world
Pink Majlis- huh?
• October 22, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in America & Middle East politics, corruption, critical media, culture, gender equality, global politics, human rights, international affairs, life, Media, News, Pink Majlis, politics, social criticism
Tags: Abu Dhabi, advocacy, America & Middle East politics, American corporations & Emirati companies, bizarre, breast cancer, critical media, current events, economics, global politics, health, human/female rights, international affairs, Kuwait, Laura Bush, Middle East, Musings, News, people, photos, Pink Majlis, political critique, politics, random, Sheikha Fatima, thoughts, world
Hossienis’ Kite snags but isn’t cut…
• December 8, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Afghan society, Afghanistan, Akademie der Kunste, America & Middle East politics, American Artists, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, ancient languages, Anthologies, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art&Design, Artistic Genres, Authenticity, Avadha, barbarians, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, brutality of Taliban era, cinema, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, creative writing, creativity, critical media, culture, culture consumption, dactylic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, democracy, Democracy politics, desi-lit, Dharma Beat Poet, Diane di Prima, disparate collection of voices, Dissemintion of popular culture, Emancipation from Tribalism, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, Ethics, ethnic violence, experimental writing, fear of reprisal, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Fotografos, freedom, gender equality, geopolitical, global politics, government, Hellenic Knowledge, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, History, Hollywood Behemoth, Hubris, human rights, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Idiosyncratic politics, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India-Pakistan relations, Information Suppression, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, Iraq policy, Islamphobe, justice, Kabul, Khaled Hosseini, La Societe Feudale, liberation, liberty, Library of Ptolemis, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Ma Sita, Media Wonks, memoirs, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, monculture catastrophe, Muslim extremists, Novelist, Oppressive Politics, Pakistan, photographic portraiture, Photography, photojournalism, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, Poetess, Poignant Themes, political asylum, Political Moguls, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, Post Modernism, Post-Beat Era, Post-War decay, pre-war Kabul, Prose Fiction, psychopathology, pyschology, race, radical Islamists, religion, social critique, social philosophy, symbolism, The Kite Runner, travel, Tyranny, UNHCR, unjust hierarchy, Voice of Dissent, World Cinema
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