No Borders and Binaries

Follow on Twitter - #Mumbai and DesiPundit has done a great job with the round-ups.
My concern is with this statement from Reuters.
A witness told Indian television that gunmen in Mumbai looked for British and U.S. passport holders.
“They wanted anyone with British or American passports,” a witness at the Taj Hotel, who said he was from [...]

It’s close to 2am as I write this blog post. Everyone else in the house is sleeping. But the room next to mine–the prayer room–is well-lit with ‘X-mas’ lights, candles (diyas) and a megawatt standing lamp. The room is brighter than it would be in broad sunlight and it will remain this way all night.
Economic [...]

India is on the Moon. Will this solve the problem of illiteracy, dowry marriages, poverty, floods, communalism and caste tensions?

Probably not. But the country is still proud of its ‘achievement’

And, of course, who can deny there is always pride and a sense of accomplishment in doing science at the cutting edge? To be just one [...]

The global financial collapse perpetuated by the United States might have affected European economies and developing markets in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh who are net capital importers, but they aren’t losing sleep over the future leadership of this country.

Source: Times of India
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Today is Karvachauth — a day on which married (presumably straight) Hindu women pray and fast for the long lives of their (presumably straight) husbands.
BARF. BARF. BARF.
You can read about the origin of this religious festivity? and what it constitutes here. In recent years, the sentiment has been popularized by god-awful, cringe-worthy family dramas of [...]