links for 2009-02-24

• Fifty-Two Stories » with Cal Morgan
  1 story every weekend; all of it free
  (tags: books free blog reading writing Daily fiction stories short)
• Lipikaar – Lipikaar Plugin for Firefox for Typing in Indian Languages
  (tags: indian india language Hindi gadget type plugin firefox)
• 1000 novels everyone must read | Books | guardian.co.uk
  (tags: books list lists Literature reading reference fiction english recommendations novels)
• nanopolitan: Someone is wrong on the internet …
  To Editorial Team at Mint:
  An implicit assumption in your editorial is that the Pink Chaddi campaign is a one shot deal. That the groups behind it, having achieved some measure of success, will just go to a life of pub-going comfort, and forget the larger battle. Is there any evidence to support this assumption? On the contrary, the main group behind that campaign has already issued a call for its next action: This is Indian Culture…
  Shame on you!
  Shame on you for exploiting a horrible crime for your silly purpose of belittling a successful campaign. Shame on you for conflating this crime (with an identifiable victim) with the threat issued by a powerful mob to endanger the safety and dignity of a large number women.
  And shameonyou, shameonyou, shameonyou for using a crime to beat up on women's groups, when your newspaper has not even bothered to report on that very crime.
  (tags: freedom media Gender gender_equality mint)

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