5 less than 3 score
He didn’t think it’d be this bad an addiction. He wrote the first 55 word story out of a sheer desperation to purge it of his system…to exorcise it. But now…now he actually wanted to write another one. And another. Like that annoying song, the 55 word story concept had burned itself into his mind.
“Confirmed: Sabarimala was desecrated 19 years back”
In what I first thought was a spoof, The Indian Express writes about the Sabarimalai temple “desecrated”. Words like “shameful incident” and “sordid” “faxed a letter to god” seriously kept me thinking that the whole thing was just a spoof. Right till the end. I had a good laugh. And then I read this story by Deccan herald that backed up IExpress.
One incident (and a 19 year old incident at that), 2 newspapers and 2 very different points of view. But the reporter for Indian Express has to be congratulated. He must be a fine journalist for he gave me a lot of things to think about. (Neutrality of the press being one of them)
[Link 1 via Madhu | Link 2 via Aadisht | Link 3 via My Feedreader]
:)
Damn, Shoefiend stole my happiness. So here goes…Happiness is a search for something, a search you know will never end.
Pass it on. Ain’t no tag, though.
Useless observations
Sir is the new dude
The blogosphere finally wakes up to its potential…Cat (and Dog) fights, name calling, inconsistent logic, selective-quoting and more. We, the blogosphere finally are acting out our stereotypes. Messrs DDS, GB, AZ, have finally brought the whole thing back on agenda. And what’s my muse, SV/AKA doing in all this? He has been, pitifully, relegated to the role of a spectator. Even when anon-baiters speak about him, he holds his silence. Why my friend, why?
55er
He resisted it. For long. Hard. He would never succumb to the temptation to write a 55 word story. In the end, the pull was too strong. As he put pen to paper, er… finger to keyboard, the thought struck him. What would he write of? Not something profound, no. Perhaps…yes this would do nicely.
The Scian Sci-Fi contest
Long time readers of this blog (yes, yes, there are such people too) would know of the Scian Wiki and the Scian Melt. Selva, a long-time blog friend had opened up a great world of science for me, ages back. But for various reasons, the Wiki had to be closed. But you can’t put a good Selva down, for long. He’s now drummed up a special contest, for you.
Announcing the Scian Science Fiction Contest
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams
It is my hope that a little dose of science fiction short stories would help balance that skewed perspective of reality. A more immediate and pragmatic hope is that, at the end of the day, we would have science fiction short stories to read, and that, those stories would relate to the culture and times we have been part of for most of our lives. While science fiction is very much about science and fiction, it is a lot about perspective too. At its core, science fiction is about the human experience and our attempts to make sense of our place in the scheme of things.
It gives me great pleasure and a soon-to-be lighter wallet to announce the very first Science Fiction Short Story Contest at TheScian.com. This will be a yearly event. If we get sponsors we may make it more frequent and hopefully add more contest categories (I have a Software contest in mind).
Go on then, let rip.
About
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
Photos
Archives
Categories
Blogroll
Badges
RSS/XML-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. -
