By and large I got through the Indian wedding unscathed, despite being “next in line” (age-wise) to get married. Until the end, when an aunt told me that …well that I was next-in-line, that I need to get married, and finally that it was her personal project to get me married. On the long plane [...]
Mindy Kaling’s show
So after critiquing her book, it looks like she’s got a new show. I’m happy that a brown girl has her own show (woohoo!!!!) I’m not sure if I’m going to love it. Here’s the trailer. Thoughts? I like the end though… some good people in it too.
Posted by Shubha on May 16, 2012
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Mapping movements in Manhattan
This is just amazing: This is Manhattan in the evening via Twitter GPS traces. He tracks people’s location over 4 hour periods and the lines represent their movements. Movements go from blue to red, so longer trails and more red means people are more on the move. I love the evening picture above. If you [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 6, 2012
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Dating in New York
As I’ve often said, the advantage of being in New York over Minneapolis is that many of my girlfriends here are single (and awesome!) Amusing observation about being a girl dating in New York: where in every other city girls start dating someone, and like it or not their imagination sometimes leads to thoughts of [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 3, 2012
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Happiness graphs make me sad
http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/25/world-happiness-report-makes-statisticians-unhappy/ There’s a couple of graphs but here’s one: And his quote from Kaiser Fung: I’m really curious how these domains add up to 100% exactly. Since the data came from some kind of survey, you typically would allow each respondent to pick more than one domains in which he or she is happy. If [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 1, 2012
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Kalyani Magazine
Inspired by my writing group, I have started a literary magazine for anyone, but especially writers out there who never have considered publishing their work. It’s for women of colour because it is a niche that still has room for more, and honestly I felt it was easier to market it when it is as [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 29, 2012
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Pain and retreat and learning to live with ones self
The first few days my body and mind were stacked against me. The goal is to simply observe yourself without fighting, without judging, and with love. I picture my mind as a toddler – they may not pick the most skillful ways to act but it doesn’t change the way you feel about them – [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 25, 2012
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Mindy Kaling’s book
I read Mindy Kaling’s recent book (the brown girl from the Office) and overall I don’t recommend it. I mean, it was like an entire book listening to one half of a conversation with any girl friend of mine. Which would be great! Except it was a book…and I didn’t know this girl friend. It [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 22, 2012
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Creating consistent test results in schools by banning words…
Recently the NYC Department of Education has expanded its list of “banned words” on NYC city-issued school tests, resulting in the usual cries of “liberals and their political correctness!” Because people are crazy. And sometimes they don’t think. Federally-issue tests already have a banned word-list, but because of the diversity in NYC, the list is [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 19, 2012
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Passwords subconsciously converted to cityscapes
One of the many weird things about me, is the way in which I remember my computer password. I don’t remember it as a series of letters and numbers, but rather as a cityscape of sorts. My computer password has been assigned to me, so I had no choice over it. It’s some arbitrary collection [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 17, 2012
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