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Climbing mountains isn’t about adrenalin or personal achievement. Mountains are all about experiencing a shared bond that is hard to find in normal life. I love that fact that mountains make every-one’s clothes and hair go messy; I love the fact that they demand that you give of yourself, that they make you fight and [...]

What hits you like a train wreck is the realisation it’s permanent

June 8, 2011

The fact remains, whatever the position, no matter how much the pay or how interesting the work might seem, the first desk job is a horrible shock. You realise you’re on the bottom of a learning curve, slogging through grunt work and putting in the sunken costs they tell you will reap dividends down the [...]

Come September

June 8, 2011

It would be absurd to think that those who criticize the Indian government are “anti-Indian” – although the government itself never hesitates to take that line. It is dangerous to cede to the Indian government or the American government or anyone for that matter, the right to define what “India” or “America” are or ought [...]

It just kind of happened

June 6, 2011

When did you know you wanted to be a lawyer? I don’t know. It just kind of happened.

WE – Arundhati Roy

June 6, 2011

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.

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