The Open Dosa

Local news, events and commentary from the students of St Joseph's College, Bangalore.

[Keshav Athreya @KeshavAthreya2]

After 10 years of thinking about topics like Being Multilingual, I finally sent out my essay on Songs I’ve Forgotten to @LitFestMeta.
The cynic in me wonders if I was in a field of two but, on the glorious side, CK Meena read my essay and thought it special enough to mention.

[LitFestMeta @LitFestMeta]

We had a Reliance 999 Rs phone at home. We would hang it ten feet high in the kitchen, on a nail and thread. That was the only place where there was one kaddi signal. I remembered my aunt telling me that one needs to plug in earphones for FM to work.

https://t.co/csGSVDFWoF

[LitFestMeta @LitFestMeta]

Hello Meta lovers & lovers It's been over a decade & we are still here —very alive & very kicking. The 11th edition of Meta will be held between 6 and 16 Feb 2023. We are grateful to all the love & chai-biscoot you have shown us over the years. We hope to see you there ❤️

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

The theatres they visited most were Rex and Blue Moon on MG road. We ask them for names of actors and actresses they loved watching on screen. Dr Raj is Sebastian’s favourite along with Ambareesh and Shankar Nag.
https://t.co/uV1OS1Si00

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

"As college-going students, going to the cinemas required a pre-budgeting process accounting for the ticket as well as the bribe they would have to give the cop. Doubles on bicycles weren’t allowed in those days and they travelled in triples." - Our latest on OD - ode to the 90s.

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

I study the mirror long enough to remember the image when I close my eyes but not long enough that I stop at and look at and fix at every time I walk by one again in a mall window, a glass tabletop, a car in the parking lot.
https://t.co/t7AVYdKlHe

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

"On the day of Diwali, Pocky was left to roam out of the cage and he was sitting on a mattress. All of a sudden, someone in the area burst a loud cracker that scared Pocky and he flew straight into the fan and died" - read this gem from Akkithimanahalli.
https://t.co/psYa6MjXF2

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

Our latest from The Rohith Vemula Archive, this story by BP Ganesh.
"This is a story about my sister when she was 12-years-old, and trying to learn the bicycle. It was also the same day that she wanted to cut her hand off."
https://t.co/EOhV110xU9

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

Prof @vinaybsr on Masalpuri for The Open Dosa.

While Masalpuri is a rainbow, all others are plain white lights. Why do I say this? At first, the street chef does an appachchi on the puris, which form the brittle-crispy foundation of our chaat.

https://t.co/lApDiwRiuw

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

"The ghats of Tezpur are beautiful.  They’re not like the ghats of Jorhat. The waters of Brahmaputra want me to stare. To disappear and become undone" -By Lonav Ojha
https://t.co/EdgllLTrLF

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

'In a region where dacoity mixed with ordinary life in a homogenous composition of calm & fear, Dr. Nambisan found her calling treating gunshot wounds along with other trivial surgeries' Zoe Philip attends a surgeon-novelist's first nonfiction book launch.
https://t.co/IIoBB5Uv7M

[SJU English @sju_english82]

This link should work better: https://t.co/A1JeRDdGoS

[Vj @rumlolarum]

@m_catchingup @english_sjc @induviduality @amudhanrp You may register here: https://t.co/K8YcsrHOIm

[Vj @rumlolarum]

@english_sjc is hosting its second edition of the New Textualities conference which begins today. We have some cool workshops lined up. One each by @amudhanrp, @al_lude and @induviduality to name a few. Cheggitout here.

[SJU English @sju_english82]

The second edition of our New Textualities Conference kicks off this week. Writing Worlds, Worlds Writing conference will feature plenary speakers, paper presentations, workshops, and dialogue sessions. Design chops by @PoopsyDScoopsy

[SJU English @sju_english82]

Workshops by @induviduality, @rumlolarum, @amudhanrp, Etienne Rassendren, Cheriyan Alexander, and others. Some may have a cap on numbers.

You can start signing up, if in Bengaluru on the dates:https://t.co/UoV3QovpYN

[SJU English @sju_english82]

@PoopsyDScoopsy Speakers include Prof. SV Srinivas (Azim Premji University), Prof. B. Hariharan (University of Kerala), Prof. Joly Puthussery (University of Hyderabad), Prof. Mohamed Shafeeq (Manipal University), the graphic artist Indu Harikumar, and writer/trans rights activist Nadika Nadja.

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

"Looking up at her, I ask, “Amma, njan oru paattu paadi thannotte?"

Parvathy J's 'Can I Sing To You?' is a stark and beautifully written account of a young woman discovering her relationship with music and her mother.

Read! https://t.co/FDERpEtt0m

[Vj @rumlolarum]

Machis and makkale,
Here is a story.

https://t.co/wul9Z0SzyQ

[The Open Dosa @TheOpenDosa]

"Do goats feel grateful? If they don’t, only if they don’t, I am glad I was born a human." @Aamiistired

Winner of the Barbara Naidu Memorial Prize, 2022 in the college category, Abhirami Bose's essay is part real, part magical and wholly beautiful.
Read https://t.co/BU8KgZgN5Z