why can't we be friends now?" he said, holding him affectionately. "it's what i want. it's what you want." but the horses didn't want it--they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the guest house, that came into view ( Read more... )

somewhere amidst the grayed and endless colonnades of academe and the mad pursuit of an intellectual life, i seem to have stopped asking myself: why? why am i doing what i do and why am i asking the questions i ask? why am i interested? and this why, the greatest question of all, has steadily grown to become the blackest mote of my eye. so now, on ( Read more... )

cannot stop listening to this song. video is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQyusKTAh4

interviewer: You play a heterosexual man who suspects he has AIDS. Would you be willing to play a gay man who's tested HIV positive?

siddharth: I think we are a homophobic country and I believe the media's insensitive sensationalisation of the issue is largely responsible for this. As an actor I play roles based on reality. Sexual orientation is a ( Read more... )

i just love devendra banhart + natalie portman + hinduistic-y myths + ridic subtitles!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPU1dtqrtho

kali:  i am kali the destroyer, goddess of change!  the redeemer of the universe!  together we will CRUSH rajah ( Read more... )

oh wow, there is a new impetus to publish sanskrit literary works--in all religions and periods--for a general international readership in english.

Introduction to the Clay Sanskrit Library ( Read more... )

copped these two links from some blog associated with the nyt ( Read more... )

a journal dedicated to charting the growth and availability of global luxury brands in india: http://indianluxist.blogspot.com/

Chicago was the gay capital of the country even before San Francisco and New York became coastal meccas for the gay community, and by 1970 had ninety gay bars most of which were controlled by the Mafia, and this control existed at least well into the 1980s.

for more details check out the history of gay bars in chicago. this website is also awesome ( Read more... )

why are there so many white boys in drag who talk like black women on youtube? what kind of a messed up trend is this ( Read more... )