Category: Floating
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Queues
I came off the Monday morning flight from Ahmedabad and walked into the massive granite walls of Mumbai airport. And straight into the men’s loo. And was confronted by one of the most ridiculous things I had ever seen. Each urinal had a queue of about six to seven men in business suits and dress […]
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Dolphins
Something Bob Dylan once said has haunted me for a long time. It was part of a diatribe and I can quote only the essence, but he said something about modern civilization that has lingered somehow. He said things to the effect* that that we people (at least the ones who are ‘educated’), we live […]
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Cinema Paradiso
“What we have here is…failure to communicate.” “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” “Well I’ll be! That is specific.” Cool Hand Luke. Unforgiven. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Ever since I could remember Hollywood has shaped my imagination with its images, characters and words. But after MICA and its professors […]
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Taxi Snapshots
Or, ‘Snaps I Would Take While Travelling Inside A Taxi (Or Auto)’. Its not that I miss a camera all the time. But sometimes, there is nothing more you wish to hold in your hand. For there are millions of moments in this cauldron of a city, which are sometimes quirky, sometimes strange, sometimes beautiful, […]
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The Good Ol’ Days
I was surfing the other day and I came across this piece by a Gaurav Sabnis: “Of course, the right to property was deleted from the fundamental rights for a different reason. To make it easy for the government to take land from the “big fish” without any trouble. Ironically and tragically, it has also […]
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Type
Stefan Sagmeister: “Yes, design can make you happy.” This post took longer than usual. It turns out it takes more than a day to figure out the best way to get wordpress or blogspot out of your url. I’ve always wanted to my own dotcom. Even if I will never let any advertising touch it. […]
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Doomsday
Sodom & Gomorrah – John Martin Now, about this time the Sodomites, overwhelmingly proud of their numbers and the extent of their wealth, showed themselves insolent to men and impious to the divinity, insomuch that they no more remembered the benefits that they had received from him, hated foreigners and avoided any contact with others. […]
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Serendipity
I have always felt something when I said ‘home’. But I don’t think I ever really understood what it meant, until my trip to Bangalore. Home is the perforated shadow of the leaves of a massive deciduous tree, falling on a smooth tar road. Home is the call of a koel. Home is the crunch […]
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Growin’ Up!
Sometimes, its important to forget about the semiotics and greater meaning of things and sit down and pull the Pensieve out. Its important to be back in the humid, hot, carpeted ‘drawing room’ of my father’s house, where a jet black, frighteningly expensive Sony tape deck is pounding away. And as I watch myself lying […]
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Catholic Suburbia
Hollywood has always been known as the strong-hold of Democrats, liberals, gay rights activists and other nuisance makers of that ilk. Apart from Mel Gibson of course, who seems completely unaware of any such predilections. The Academy Awards are infamous for having become a forum where screen icons diss Republicans, while the Award nominees and […]
Between 2 Sips 