A moment to remember
Ranjita Biswas
This week will remain special for me, like for many others around the world, I am sure. The election of Barack Obama, the first Black to move to the White house, has done something to make me forget, even if for a while, the dismal situation at home- the mindless killings, leaders (?) bickering, and on the whole the sense of hopelessness and helplessness that must have engulfed many countrymen at this juncture. And in these dark moments when a man, whose kinsmen have had to bear humiliation, Ku Klux Klan- persecution, had to fight even to take a seat in a public bus because only whites were allowed in that section, or denied a cup of coffee in a café because Blacks were not expected to enter, becomes the 44th President of the same country, purportedly the most powerful in the world, it is, well, mind-blowing.more »
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Designing our lives
By Ranjita Biswas
What price looks? Well, despite all the talk about ‘looks don’t matter, talent does’, seems just that-talks, in the world we live in today. One has to look smart, polished, marketable, an ad company’s dream if he or she wants to be presented to an audience, never mind if talent is a little less.more »
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