She's Still, She's Still Padma from the Block

The Indian blog world just got a little more crowded, and I'm loving every minute of it. This week on Pass The Roti on the Left Hand Side my favorite desi, Padma Govindan started adding her own leftist thoughts and opinions to their ace team of desi-critics.

Today she's lamenting the CIA-Industrial-Prison complex and the sad fate of an innocent Syrian who was tortured by a Canadian and American coalition of intelligence agencies for ten months before they figured out he was, in fact, the wrong guy.

And yesterday she was examining propper Islamic couture for women as prescribed by the Koran.

And why do we love Padma's postings? Is it only because we burned our fingers over a sacred fire some time last year (before meandering around it seven times), you ask? Well, I admit that speaks favorably for her choice in partners, but would by no means cloud my editorial opinions. Reading her writing is like adding another Salon article every day, the right blend of lefty thinking and moral outrage at the world situation that I just don't get while chasing my own stories of one-eyed children and kidney thieves.