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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Kolkata: Books, Parks, Vids, and More + Aithal’s Game + Podcast

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

My honey puts on a good face to indulge my book love.
My honey puts on a good face to indulge my book love.

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Kolkata is regarded as the seat of India’s intellectual creativity. No doubt the rest of India is darned amazing too. That said, Kolkata is home to six Nobel Prize laureates, starting with multi-talented Rabindranath Tagore who I posted about earlier.

Book lover that I am (about the book I’m working on here), I was ecstatic to catch Kolkata’s annual two-week book fair. Since the event’s inception in 1976, it’s…

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Violencia Psicológica

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” Na relação amorosa, o manipulador emocional sabe como atrair as suas vítimas” ( Mulher do ostracismo à luta pelos direitos nos dias atuais), porque esses homens dominam essas mulheres pelo psicológico. O próprio nome já chama atenção para essa questão. Pela confiança, o abusador emocional tem o domínio e poder sobre a sua vítima e também sobre seus atos. Claro, imagine alguém te cativar justamente com o sentido, não de te amar, de oferecer à você, com um sentimento puro e leal. Nada disso, o manipulador emocional, simplesmente, ele usa você. Sim, a mulher vira uma marionete nas mãos desses homens, ou pode ser parceira também. Há muitos relacionamentos abusivos onde os abusadores também são mulheres, no caso, são abusadores que sabem seduzir e tirar o que querem de suas vítimas.

Algumas práticas de abuso emocional são visíveis. Talvez, por isso seja mais fácil de identificar. Já em outras…

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Vegetarian Bread ‘n Butter Pudding

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Talking Points: Vegetarian Bread ‘n Butter Pudding! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times. One of the privileges of being part of the blogosphere is benefiting from the vast friendships beyond my little corner of the world. Not only is it a creative outlet for expressing my love of food, it also challenges me to stretch my palate and try new things. Today’s recipe comes from Corrie, a Brit, who thrives on a vegetarian diet. She has a fabulous blog entitled http://corriesrabbitfood.com where food looks so amazing it makes you forget about being a meat-lover. To clear up any confusion, “bread pudding” is more commonly known as a dessert. But “bread and butter pudding” is made by buttering the bread before adding any liquid. Now you see the difference, which is why this makes a fabulous breakfast dish. Are you ready…

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♫ Nowhere Man ♫ (Redux)

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Just as Yesterday mysteriously came to Paul McCartney, Nowhere Man simply came to Lennon at dawn after he’d stayed up all night, struggling to come up with a new song for Rubber Soul. He happened upon a phrase, “nowhere man,” which, he felt, described his own fears about himself.

john-lennon“I’d spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down.  I thought of myself sitting there, doing nothing and getting nowhere.”

Recorded on 21 and 22 October 1965, Nowhere Man is one of the first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable example of Lennon’s philosophically oriented songwriting. Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison sing the song in three-part harmony. The lead guitar solo…

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Job Requirement: Walk A Mile In My Shoes

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We humans … all of us … have built-in defense mechanisms that allow us to tune out certain things.  If you walk frequently in a city, you have likely learned to tune out the homeless person sitting against a building, hoping someone will stop and offer him a meal.  When we pick up our child at school, we rarely notice that tall kid with the holes in his shoes, or the skinny child whose clothes are two sizes too big, or the child being pushed to the bus in a wheelchair.  We become inured to things that would bother us, would disturb our vision of the world we live in, perhaps even give us a twinge of guilt for our own well-being relative to others.

Most of our politicians today are wealthy by almost any standards and have always been so.  They do not notice us … until election day. …

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