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Writer poet John P Matthew's daily musings, raves and rants.
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Writing a Novel Is Tough, Really Tough!
Writing a novel is a tough, difficult job. Apart from plotting there are the characterizations, the settings, the subject, the voice, the tone, the foreshadowing, the explication of ordinary things you understand but others do not, the picking up of ...
New York Times Gives Blogs, Online Networks Their Due
While on the subject of New York Times (NYT) I am amazed to see that the articles centre around people's experiences in online forums like Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, Twitter and such like. Is NYT following a future trend before it has arrived? Wil...
Obama’s Men-only Obsession
Over at the white House, as New York Times reports in a front page article, the major crib is that Obama is surrounded by men, and not pretty female interns. A picture shows Obama trying to basket a ball, watched by awed cohorts. Obviously when you ...
Why I Believe in Online - the Medium of the Future
This is in reply to a poem by Alankrita on Shakespeare and Company and sort of sums up my experience on social media and the entire wired world. Like it or not, social media or networks, call it what you will, are here to stay. Why else should all ...
The Gotul: Has National Geographic Got It Wrong?
Saw this interesting documentary on National Geographic on the Madia tribe’s Gotul custom. Gotul, as apparent from the documentary is a place where young people older than ten years go and spend the whole night together, drinking palm toddy, smokin...
Frankly: I Don’t Know
I will be frank about this one: I don’t whom to be more afraid of: the terrorists from within the borders or the “inner terrorists” or the fundamentalists from across the borders the “outer terrorists”. It confuses me. I could swear on that...
