Tag: india

• Rebels without a cause

  Saw ‘Tanu weds Manu returns’ yesterday. Excellent movie after a long time. 🙂 (apart from one dimensional Manu and the Haryanvi family as prop.) I – Restless = humans It made me think about the trend of lead characters in bollywood movies – men/ women. (Raj in countless SRK films or Kangana in most of […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  May 26, 2015

  Decoding movies and stories

  bollywood, existentialism, gender, identity, india, kangana, mascilinity, narcissism, partner, rebel, review

• Stop bitching. Start acting.

  Exhibit A Have you seen posts like these on FB lately? What are they about? A person witnesses some ‘wrong’ act. He/ She promptly takes a picture of the wrong act. He/she hurries to upload it to social media in an effort to shame the person in question. Earlier, a photograph of a car’s number […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  April 22, 2013

  Behaviors

  behavior, digital reality, india, Media effects, narcissism

• Irresponsible brand #56: Bisleri

  

  See these ads -> Bisleri500 Angry bride, Bisleri500 Casanova, Bisleri500 Superhero Tell me you didn’t find them disturbing. If you did, stop drinking this irresponsible brand, and if it can be helped, bottled water altogether. Story of the bottled water If not, let me shepherd out the outrage. What do you think is the brand […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  April 7, 2013

  Irresponsible brands

  bisleri, capitalism, caste, class, conscienscious consumption, consumption, india, nature, sociology, waste

• Don’t screw Holi!/ Tradition v/s ecology

  

  Its Holi time. 🙂 The best time (for some) to be in India. It is a global party to prepare ourselves of the terrible weather that will soon turn us into homebodies – scared of stepping out in the day time 45 degree dust bowls. One last day of being out and enjoying it – […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  March 22, 2013

  Behaviors, Uncategorized

  festival, holi, india, modernity, tradition